Volunteers Larry Sakayama and Mark Earnhardt collect water samples and process them through a filtering apparatus. The samples are then taken to Ferrum College.Â
Water quality monitoring program director Delia Heck speaks with Ferrum College student Ashly Cutcliff who is spending the summer as an intern with the program.Â
Ferrum College students Dew Adams, from left, Dashawn Nichting, Gracie Edwards and Ashly Cutcliff look over samples they collected at Smith Mountain Lake.
The water samples collected from Smith Mountain Lake are tested in a variety of ways. One test is placing the samples under a florescent light. Samples with elevated levels of E. coli bacteria glow under the light.Â
Ferrum College faculty and water quality monitoring program founders Carolyn Thomas, left, and David Johnson, right, train some of the first monitors of Smith Mountain Lake back in 1987.
Volunteers Larry Sakayama and Mark Earnhardt collect water samples and process them through a filtering apparatus. The samples are then taken to Ferrum College.Â
Water quality monitoring program director Delia Heck speaks with Ferrum College student Ashly Cutcliff who is spending the summer as an intern with the program.Â
Ferrum College students Dew Adams, from left, Dashawn Nichting, Gracie Edwards and Ashly Cutcliff look over samples they collected at Smith Mountain Lake.
The water samples collected from Smith Mountain Lake are tested in a variety of ways. One test is placing the samples under a florescent light. Samples with elevated levels of E. coli bacteria glow under the light.Â
Ferrum College faculty and water quality monitoring program founders Carolyn Thomas, left, and David Johnson, right, train some of the first monitors of Smith Mountain Lake back in 1987.
