1. Lesson 1: Would You Swim Here?

2. Hello! My name is Caroline Miller, and I work for Sanitation District No. 1 (SD1). You can call me Miss Caroline. This is my fish friend, Splash McClean. He is SD1’s mascot. Today I hope you learn how important water is to me, to you and to our environment.

3. Sanitation District No. 1 (SD1) SD1 wants to keep WATER very clean. Read page 1 of your Water Log Workbook to learn more about SD1. You will go through five lessons in your Water Log Workbooks.

4. SD1 Have you heard of SD1? Do you know what we do at SD1? What is our main job? (Hint: We have one job, and this job has two parts!) Most of you have used hand sanitizer. Hand sanitizer cleans your hands. At SD1, we clean something too… all your dirty water.

5. Types of Water SD1 Cleans At SD1, we clean two types of water. The first type is called WASTEWATER. Wastewater is the water that goes down your drain and toilet. How do you create wastewater? Raise your hand, and tell me some ways you use water on a daily basis. Have you ever thought about where your water goes after you use it?

6. Wastewater Facts On average, each person uses 100 gallons of water per day! There are 1,600 miles of sewer pipes under the ground in Northern Kentucky that carry dirty water to SD1’s wastewater treatment plants. If you stretched out all these pipes from end to end, they would reach from here to Houston, Texas!

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8. Wastewater Facts SD1 cleans wastewater from Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties, totaling about 36 million gallons of wastewater per day! After cleaning the water, SD1 puts it back into the largest body of water in Northern Kentucky, the Ohio River.

9. Wastewater Treatment Step 1: The water goes down the drain. Step 2: The water travels through the pipes. Step 3: The water comes to SD1’s wastewater treatment plants where SD1 cleans the water. Step 4: The cleaned water is released back into the Ohio River. Dry Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant Western Regional Water Reclamation Facility Eastern Regional Water Reclamation Facility

10. Types of Water SD1 Cleans The first type of water we learned about is called WASTEWATER. Can anyone guess what the second type of water SD1 cleans is? STORM WATER This is the type of water we will be learning about in today’s experiment.

11. Storm Water When rain water falls from the sky, the water is clean. When it hits the ground, there are many things on the ground that can make the water dirty. Storm water picks up pollution like trash, oil, antifreeze from leaky cars, manure from animals, pet waste, soap from washing cars and more. The storm water carries the pollution to a storm drain, which leads to the nearest body of water.

12. Would You Swim Here?

14. Drinking Safe Water Have you ever taken a drink of water this way? Have you ever thought about what might have been in the water before you?

15. Experiment Today, each of you will play the role of a citizen in a town. The class will be divided into five groups: -Group 1: Farmers -Group 2: Industrial Plant Workers -Group 3: Golf Course Owners -Group 4: Residents -Group 5: Developers

16. Experiment Group 1: Farmers -Oil (Soy sauce), soil (cocoa powder), fertilizer (yellow drink mix), pesticides (red drink mix), animal waste (chocolate sprinkles) Group 2: Industrial Plant Workers -Oil (soy sauce), toxic chemicals (colored sprinkles) Group 3: Golf Course Owners -Pesticides (red drink mix), fertilizers (yellow drink mix), soil (cocoa powder) Group 4: Residents -Oil (Soy sauce), soil (cocoa powder), fertilizer (yellow drink mix), pesticides (red drink mix), animal waste (chocolate sprinkles) Group 5: Developers -Oil (soy sauce), Soil (cocoa powder)

17. Substances Table Substance: Soy sauce Cocoa Yellow drink mix Red drink mix Colored sprinkles Chocolate sprinkles Representation: Oil Soil Fertilizer Pesticides Toxic chemicals Pet/animal waste

18. Student Scientist Sheet Title of the Experiment: Would You Swim Here? Scientific Question: What happens to pollution on the ground when it rains? 1.What I predict (my hypothesis): 2.Plan the experiment. What steps do I need to follow? 3.Conduct the experiment: What data do I need to record? I predict… My group put _________ and _________ on the model. I need to record what happens to the ________ and ________ when it rains.

19. Student Scientist Sheet 4. What I observed… 5. Draw conclusions and communicate; What did I learn or discover? 6. What I found to be interesting about this experiment: I observed________________________________________. I learned or discovered_______________________________. I thought that __________________________ was interesting.

21. Vocabulary Water pollution -The contamination of water sources by humans Point source pollution -One can “point to” or identify the source of the pollution. Non-point source pollution -One cannot “point” to or identify the source of pollution, and the pollution enters water bodies from various areas.