15th Annual Tompkins County Drinking Water Week
and Water Taste Test
Water
Week Events
May 3 & 5, 2008
The Tompkins County Department of Environmental Health
and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
will be hosting National Drinking Water Week events on Saturday,
May 3rd from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ithaca Farmer’s Market.
Again this year an additional outreach session will be held
on May 5th at Environmental Appreciation Days.
Teachers who are interested in having their 4th, 5th or 6th
grade classes attend must register by calling 272-2292. For
more information on Environmental Appreciation Days, visit the
CCE web site: cce.cornell.edu/tompkins/ead/.
[ Results from this year
and previous years: Click Here
]
The Wonder of Water
The permanently adopted theme for National drinking Water
Week is “The Wonder of Water”. Throughout the two
days, local governments, citizen organizations, and non-profits
will be providing water taste tests, demonstrations of specialized
monitoring and inspection equipment, models of groundwater movement
and surface water runoff, educational computer games for children,
hands-on displays, and lots of water related information. For
more detailed and updated information, please visit www.cayugalake.org
and www.ithacamarket.com.
Get to know Cayuga Lake!
Join the crew of the Cayuga Lake Floating Classroom
and Tiohero Tours for free cruises throughout the day. Learn
about the health and history of the lake we all share, and participate
in lake monitoring activities!
Basic cruises, just over one hour in length, will leave the
Farmers' Market dock at 11:00am and 1:00pm. A complete Floating
Classroom-style monitoring cruise will be offered, from 2:30
to 4:30pm. For the two-hour cruise at 2:30pm, advance reservations
are requested, as class size is limited.
Those interested can contact Tiohero Tours in advance, at 607-697-0166,
or dennis@cwbw.com. Reservations
will be held until 2:20pm. This is a great chance to finds out
what students from area schools have been experiencing on Cayuga
Lake for years!"
Water Plant Tours
To complement Water Week events, tours can be scheduled for
the first week of May with the Bolton
Point Water System (277-0660), the City
of Ithaca Drinking Water Plant (273-4680), the Cornell Drinking
Water Plant (255-3381), the Ithaca
Area Waste Water Treatment Facility (273-8381), and the
Cayuga
Heights Sewage Treatment Plant (273-4461). Please call to
make arrangements.
Need more info?
For additional information please call Chris
or Kristee at the
Tompkins County Health Department, Environmental Health Division,
607-274-6688.
For results of last year's taste test click
here.
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