EARTH DAY 2008:
Emma Martin Park Educational Depot Unveiled
On Earth Day, April 22, Essential Skills students from Limestone Community Education, a division of the Limestone District School Board), joined City representatives at Emma Martin Park to unveil the Sewers and Sanitation/Water Quality education depot and launch the Fish and Frogs storm sewer program.
This new educational depot, developed by The Kingston Environmental Advisory Forum's (KEAF) Inner Harbour Group, the City and Utilities Kingston, is the second in a series that will be built along the waterfront of Kingston's Inner Harbour. KEAF chose this area as the focal point for this project celebrating the measures the City is taking to reverse the effects of past land use practices. The first interpretive signs, installed at four locations in Belle Park, were unveiled on Earth Day in 2006.
Under the Fish and Frogs program, pictures of fish and frogs are painted near storm sewers to make residents aware that all the water that goes down storm sewers ends up in Lake Ontario where fish and frogs are vulnerable to any pollutants that the water might carry (like soaps, fertilizers, and oil).
KEAF members, City staff, Deputy Mayor Rob Matheson and students from the Essential Skills Program, Limestone Community Education helped launch the Fish & Frogs program, painting fish and frogs beside storm sewer drains to remind residents that water that goes down the sewer ends up directly in Kingstons waterways.
