Boy Scout Troop 182
AUGUSTA LAKE CLEAN STREAM PROJECT
August 26, 2000
Scout Troop 182,
from Jasper Indiana,
led by Bart Pitstick, volunteered their services on August 26, 2000,
to help with the Augusta Lake Remediation Project.
They filled over 200 sandbags to re-enforce one of three dikes
created last year.
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Mike
Kalagian, an OSM employee and project manager for the Augusta
Lake remediation project, describes where on the 52 acre lake the
scouts will be working.
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The scouts learn
how to measure pH using a HACH Kit (a colorimetric test), as well as, using
an electronic pH meter. They
measured the pH of distilled water, vinegar, and water taken from
Augusta Lake.
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The scouts used canoes to move across the lake to
the worksite.
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This is water that
has impounded behind one of three sandbag dikes created by both Boy
and Girl Scout Troops, and a group of Youth-at-Risk
teenagers from the Southwest Indiana Regional Youth Village Service
Platoon (Vincennes, Indiana).
The water measured a pH of 2.95; the water will be neutralized
in the Spring of 2001 for aquatic life (frogs) to survive and thrive.
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Sandbags to build
the wetland dike are filled with on-site material, usually consisting
of weathered acid sandstone sands, silts and clays. This material has
washed down from
the adjacent mine spoil ridges.
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Team work gets the job done.
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Sitting in a mud puddle you made with your
friends, after completing a hard day's work: priceless!
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