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Campbell High School Adopt-A-Block
Saturday, February 4, 2006

More than 100 volunteers from Campbell High School and many of their friends and neighbors will fan out across Ewa Beach to clean up trash and educate their neighbors about pollution tomorrow moring (Saturday, Feb. 4, 2006) as part of the City's Adopt-A-Block program.  

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Chaminade University Adopt-A-Stream
Thursday, January 26, 2006

As many as 250 St. Louis School faculty, staff and students will spend Thursday morning clearing and caring for the environment around their Kaimuki campus.  Joined by volunteers from Chaminade University, they will clear overgrown vegetation and litter from Palolo Stream ...

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Maryknoll Grade School Faculty Stencil Storm Drains
Friday, February 3, 2006

Seven teams of two to three Maryknoll Grade School faculty members will spread out throughout their neighborhood on Friday to protect the environment.  They will clean around storm drains, stencil the message, "Dump No Waste, Take Care of Our Ocean", and hand out educational materials identifying who they are, what they are doing, ways to reduce polluted runoff and where to properly dispose of household and yard waste...

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Volunteers Pitch In For National Public Lands Day
Saturday, September 24, 2005

Scores of volunteers will be cleaning up three sites in or near Waikiki on Saturday, September 24, 2005, as part of Honolulu 's observance of National Public Lands Day, an effort that's being coordinated by the City Department of Environmental Services.

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World Water Monitoring Day and Stream Clean Up
Friday, October 21, 2005

More than 70 Honolulu-area middle school students along with science teachers Debbie Jensen from Washington Middle School and Lorine Pelletier and Anne Staggemeier from Our Redeemer Lutheran School will create a snap shot of basic water quality parameters and compare the results with measurements taken by water professionals with the City's Storm Water Quality Branch, State of Hawaii Department of Health Clean Water Branch and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Civil Works Technical Branch.  The educational focus is intended to increase awareness of water quality and the ahupua`a (watershed) concept to restoration in the Ala Wai Canal Watershed.  Students start at Puu Ualakaa State Park (Round Top) at 9 a.m., then travel to Makiki Stram near the Honolulu Board of Water Supply pumping station at 10 a.m. for water sampling, then finish at the Ala Wai CAnal phytoremediation project at 12:15 p.m.  Students participating in hands-on field investigation will collect and measure water samples using field instruments and educational water kits to determine how the parameters of pH, dissolved oxygen, temperature, turbidity and conductivity relate to each other.  Data collected by the students will be uploaded into usable global databases at http://www.worldwatermonitoringday.org/.  Other cooperating agencies inlcude the Hawaii Nature Center and Natural Systems Inc., working in conjunction with Marine Agritech.

Pohala Marsh:  Lessons From A Wetland
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
Thursday, October 13, 2005

Seventy tenth graders and their teachers at Waipahu High School will journey to Pouhala Marsh to work closely with various agencies involved in wetland restoration and how to best manage this unique ecosystem right in their own backyard.  Pouhala Marsh consists of a remnant fishpond and coastal marsh located in west loch of Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu .  Over the years, the wetlands of this area have been severely and significantly degraded through filling, urban development, water pollution, and alien plant invasion.  What was once an extensive system of wetlands in this area has declined to a few remaining basins and mud flats.  Pouhala Marsh, with its seventy acres, is the largest remaining wetland habitat in Pearl Harbor . 

Students and teachers will rotate through stations on water quality, soil sampling, biard monitoring and plant identification.  These stations will help connect the basic science concepts students learn in the classroom, to hands-on field knowledge at the marsh.  Students will model field staff from the City and County of Honolulu Storm Water Quality Branch , Hawaii Department of Forestry and Wildlife, UH Conservation Alliance, Bishop Museum and the Natural Resources Conservation Service. 

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