Respect, Replace and Restore- the 3 Rs of Cary Woods Elementary Outdoor Environment Project

5/19/2009: Eric Reutebuch and Wendy Seesock, Saugahatchee Watershed Management Plan (SWaMP) co-coordinators working in the Alabama Water Watch Program in the Auburn University Fisheries Department, initiated a project with Ms. Debbie Brooks, Principal of the Cary Woods Elementary School in Auburn, Alabama in 2008. The project, Respect, Replace and Restore- the 3 Rs of Cary Woods Elementary Outdoor Environment Project- educating all to preserve our environment- a school and community effort, is a SWaMP-funded project that promotes environmental education, nonpoint source pollution reduction, rainwater harvest and water conservation (learn more about the project at http://www.swamp.auburn.edu). SWaMP implementation funding was provided by the Alabama Department of Environmental Management through a Clean Water Act Section 319(h) nonpoint source grant provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency-Region 4. Cliff Webber, Save Our Saugahatchee citizen volunteer monitor and retired AU Fisheries faculty member, joined Eric and Wendy on May 19th, 2009 to introduce Cary Woods third and fourth graders to the Alabama Water Watch Program, aquatic science, water chemistry testing, and stream bioassessment via sampling aquatic organismsin the school's stream. The students were full of enthusiasm, very inquisitive and wanted to learn more about the underwater world behind their school. Eric encouraged them to learn more about AWW and their aquatic environment by visiting http://www.alabamawaterwatch.org, and consider becoming certified AWW monitors.

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Why would Auburn take money from that terrible agency. I HATE ADEM!!!