16th Annual Tompkins County Drinking Water Week
and Water Taste Test
Water
Week Events
May 9, 2009
The Tompkins County Division of Environmental Health
and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County
host National Drinking Water Week events!
When: Saturday,
May 9th from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: Ithaca Farmer’s Market.
Come use our new environmentally friendly compostable cups and participate in our reduced waste water tasiting test!
[ 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
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 depart from the
Farmers' Market dock at 11:00am and 1:00pm. The basic cruise is just over one hour in length.
A complete Floating
Classroom-style 2-hour monitoring cruise departs from the Farmers' Market dock at 2:30pm. Advance reservations are requested for the 2-hour cruise, as class size is limited. Contact Tiohero Tours at 607-697-0166,
or info@tioherotours.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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