Water/Sewer District: Research grants awarded to schools

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Staff writer

The Northwestern Water and Sewer District is awarding grants to area schools to support research projects focusing on water.
The Water and Environment Teacher Education Resources grants assist local schools by providing direct funding for programs that stress the importance of water resources.
According to district president Jerry Greiner, “This is the largest year for our WATER grant program. We share in our educators’ enthusiasm for teaching students about taking care of our number one resource, water.”
Grants are being awarded to:
Elmwood Middle School – $500 for aqueduct kits for 5th-grade social studies, $500 for water quality testing kits for 7th-grade science, $500 to 5th-grade science class for force mechanism troughs, $500 to purchase books and magazines for research in water sciences.
Eastwood High School – $500 for water quality testing kits for marine science class, and $500 for testing kits and waders to support existing stream monitoring programs in the College Credit Plus Program through the environmental science class.
Otsego High School – $500 for testing supplies and tools to research bacteria in a local creek.
Otsego Junior High School – $100 for waders for an educator to attend the Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Government Student Watershed Watch.
Otsego Kindergarten – $500 for rainwater collection barrels and collection bottles to teach small children the importance of water conservation.
Lake Middle School – $500 for a 7th-grade science project to research the use of algae as a biofuel.
The district introduced the grant program in December 2014.

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