Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Mentoring Program Nita M. Lowey PA 21st Century Community Learning Center

The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Mentoring Program, PA Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Center at Meadville Area Middle School took part in the Izaak Walton League Winter Salt Watch program. We studied sites in the Mill Run watershed in Meadville, PA. In general, downstream sites had more chloride (road salt) than upstream site, but a tributary that runs right by the school also had high values during some sampling dates. None of the chloride data collected indicated hazardous levels in the Mill Run watershed, but the levels increased through the winter season and with snow events.