Bronx River Education

2/28/08

February 28, 2008

KS, JD, AM and myself went to 3 different sites on the Bronx River today to take water samples. KS and JD are helping us to begin a bacteria monitoring program that we hope  to soon make a part of our regular Stewards Program. They will take the samples  up to SUNY Purchase for incubation. At this point, they are working as much on the method as they are on the actual testing. Any ideas from our monitors would be gladly accepted.

            As a part of her study, KS has chosen three sites that she will regularly monitor for the next few months. Those sites are: Muskrat Cove,  to get a reading on the river as it enters the Bronx, Mitsubishi Riverwalk, to monitor a midway point, And 174^th street, which is just South of the CSO at Drew Gardens. We have a few pictures. See Brave KS as she samples around the ice at Mitsubishi. We’ll make sure to share the data as it comes in.

DG

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