The Cuyahoga River Project

(Stage 2: Water Quality Testing Resources)

  1. Manuals
    1. Field manual for Global Low-Cost Water Quality Monitoring, Stapp and Mitchell, Thomson-Shore, Inc., 1995
    2. Rivers: Chemistry Curriculum Guide, Bryan, Burbank, Ballinger, Dale Seymour Publication, 1997 (This guide makes connection to mathematics and contains convenient student worksheets that can be duplicated.)
  2. Test Kits
    1. Dissolved oxygen - Science Kit & Boreal Laboratories
    2. Fecal Coliform - Millipore
    3. pH - Hach
    4. Nitrate(zinc based, no cadmium) - Ohmicron
    5. Phosphate - Hach
    6. Turbidity - Forestry Suppliers, Inc
  3. Other Sources
    1. Guided river bank walk and benthic survey were conducted by the rangers stationed at the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center, United State Dept. of Interior National Park Service.
    2. What's Wet and Green Workshop, a combined Project Green and Project Wet workshop that Fen lewis attended which provided essential information she needed to conduct this project.

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