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Kalamazoo student to teach low-cost rain-barrel workshop to help reduce river nutrients
Summary
A Kalamazoo Central rising senior told commissioners she is organizing a free rain-barrel workshop on Aug. 9 to help residents reduce nutrient runoff contributing to algae blooms in the Kalamazoo River; she cited cost barriers to existing rain-barrel programs.
Ava Ballant, a rising senior at Kalamazoo Central and the Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center, used the July 21 public-comment period to outline a community initiative aimed at reducing nutrient runoff that contributes to algae blooms in the Kalamazoo River.
Ballant thanked the commission for the city’s stormwater-management efforts and said environmental…
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