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SELAH -- Selah Intermediate School fifth-grade science students took to the streets this week as part of their study of ecosystems. Students painted bright yellow cautionary signs next to 108 storm drains warning against dumping waste into the drains.
"This is to educate students about the importance of keeping storm drains clean, as most storm drain pollution does not get treated and leads straight back into the enviroment," said science teacher Kelli Blakney.
Teams of students and parent volunteers, carrying buckets of cleaning and painting supplies, trooped to storm drains near the school for the painting project. Each student was assigned a task. One swept around the drain, another held a cardboard shield, one student did the painting while another cleaned the stencil afterward.
The project is a collaboration between the Selah School District, the city of Selah and the Washington state Department of Ecology, which funded the project, said educator Bob Tuck of the Yakima Basin Environmental Education Program.
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