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Building Project Update
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr “Our Environmental Destiny”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “Our Environmental Destiny”
Friday, April 16th 2010 10am - JQH Arena on the campus of Missouri State University
Visit the Springifeld Park Board website for more infomation - http://www.parkboard.org/
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WQIP Update
The Water Quality Improvement Project (WQIP) has recently installed the 15th advanced onsite wastewater system! This project has helped provide cost-share for failing septic systems closely connected to surface and groundwater resources. This year the project will focus on utilizing these sites and the Onsite Wastewater Training Center at Valley Water Mill for demonstration workshops providing homeowner and installer training on advanced wastewater technology.
For more information on the connection between onsite wastewater and water quality, click HERE. 
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Watershed Festivals
Tis the season of Watershed Festivals. The James River Basin Partnership is doing their annual series of festivals in Taney, Stone, Christian and Barry County.
The end result will be 1900 5th grade students having an intense day of learning about water, and FUN. Watershed Committee supports the JRBP by helping train volunteer educators, and by providing one instructor for each festival.
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Miller High School Visits the Watershed Center
December 1, 2009, Miller High School Visits the Watershed Center.
It was another beautiful day at the Watershed Center…in December no less. None of us could believe the pleasant weather we were experiencing, and I found it ironic that I have had better luck with field trip weather in October, November, and now December, than traditional “good weather” months.
Erica Cox, the State Coordinator for Project WET, scheduled the event with an energetic and well informed group under the direction of Mrs. Teresa Johnson. The students stopped at the Watershed Center as part of a dynamic field trip—they were on their way from Fulbright Springs, and would visit the Southwest Treatment Plant afterwards. At the Watershed Center the students learned about types and sources of pollution in the Watershed, and did Water Chemistry testing at the Streamside Learning Station. Hopefully, after such a complete day of water education, the students picked up lasting lessons in water quality. Some of the students may get to brandish their new knowledge when they compete in the Envirothon competition, of which they had earned the privilege to compete at the State level.
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