There was no shortage of ideas as students from Northpoint Expeditionary Learning Academy worked on what has been a persistent community problem – the condition of the water in Prescott’s creeks and lakes. After spending months testing and evaluating the runoff water that flows into Granite Creek, the students were ready this week to take
Prescott Creeks has been working with Northpoint Expeditionary Learning Academy and the City of Prescott to better understand the role parking lots play in the pollution of our creeks. By monitoring the e. Coli and the turbidity of the parking lot in standard conditions, and again when they have been freshly vacuumed, there are a
Cindy Barks The Daily Courier PRESCOTT – It didn’t take a microscope for NorthpointExpeditionary Learning Academy students to gauge the basic quality of the water that ran off of a city parking lot Wednesday morning. Read about this interesting stormwater monitoring project.
With the main part of the initial Watson woods Riparian Preserve restoration nearly finished, I’ve been looking back through the work we have done and the changes that have taken place. One of the first big pieces we worked on was the stormwater basin adjacent to the Peavine Trail parking lot. This basin receives all of
The Watershed Improvement Council reached another milestone in August with the completion of the revised Watershed Improvement Plan (WIP). The revised WIP, known as WIP 2.0, contains recommendations for watershed improvements and projects that will help improve the quality of Prescott’s waterways. Because local water quality issues are linked to urban and developed land uses in
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