Welcome to new Waterwatch groups in the North

The Northern & Yorke Waterwatch program has been reinvigorated in 2008, thanks to additional funding from the Northern & Yorke Natural Resource Management Board.

We welcome three new schools in 2008, Horizon Christian School in Balaklava, Jamestown Community School and Kapunda Primary School. They are all eager to be part of the Waterwatch program.  The schools have been given their water monitoring kits, and are keen to get out and start testing their local waterways.

In late 2007, our first estuarine monitoring schools joined up with Waterwatch, and the students of Edithburgh, Pt Vincent and Stansbury Primary Schools have since been monitoring the Coobowie Estuary on the bottom of Yorke Peninsula. They have been working through the monitoring kit and its different chemical and physical tests.  This new kit is quite different to a freshwater monitoring kit so we all have had a lot to learn.  Tests include: pH & Alkalinity, Ammonium, Orthophosphate, Water colour, depth temperature & clarity, Salinity & Dissolved oxygen. The Waterwatch program in the Northern and Yorke region is going from strength to strength, and future plans are to extend it to cover all the region.

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