Mucking Up the Silt from OurWaterWebs on Vimeo.
Video by Zack Baer
This video shows efforts to prevent stormwater from polluting Meyers Lake and its outflows into the Nimishillen Creek in northeastern Ohio.
It is among those produced by students at Kent State University’s Stark campus under the direction of biology and journalism faculty. It is part of a multidisciplinary study of the local environment called OurWaterWebs and based south of Cleveland, just outside of the Great Lakes watershed.
While technically outside of Echo’s news community, we think it close enough to feature yet another university-based effort at reporting news and information in the context of a watershed.
The course was created with support from the H.W. Hoover Foundation and Ali Habashi of the University of Miami’s Arnold Center for Confluent Media.