Wednesday, Dec 19, 2007

TTT#25-WaterPollution

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Are we unintentionally polluting our river and streams with our fertilizers, lawn shavings and leaves? How does the urban run-off contribute to the other pollution entering the Metro Area from agricultural products and waste?
TTT's Andy Driscoll and Lynnell Mickelsen talk with state experts and young scholars about the pollution we all add to the waters of our state and region with our discarded leaves and grasses and the chemicals we use to keep them green. GUESTS: PAUL WOTZKA, Hydrologist, water quality specialist, late of Minnesota Department of Agriculture and Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Whistleblower on atrazine run-off and dangers of corn-cultivated ethanol; PATRICK MOORE, Executive Director, Clean up The River Environment (CURE), Montevideo, MN; TWIN CITIES ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE STUDENTS reporting on urban nonpoint pollution (run-off) – Aura Scherbel and Zach Wilkowski (Teacher: Liz Scheidel).

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