What are they looking for in the river?

NEWS RELEASE

LAKE SUPERIOR STATE UNIVERSITY

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Lake Superior State University fisheries student Doug Galvas maneuvers so aquatic research laboratory worker Nick Steimel can dip a sample from in front of a marine salvage yard on August 10.

The LSSU ARL and the LSSU environmental analysis lab have been under contract since June to collect and analyze water samples for E. coli bacteria from 14 "transects" along the St. Marys River, between the river's upper reaches in Sault Ste. Marie, to DeTour, MI, where the river empties into Lake Huron.

Faculty-student teams also sample eight tributaries that drain into the river.

The survey, funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, runs through early October and expects to collect more than 3,000 water samples.

The aquatic research lab has hired four employees to work on the effort.

LSSU photo by John Shibley

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