WATER QUALITY & BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
LFSWS again supported the participation of the 8th grade at East Granby Middle School in Trout Unlimited’s program, “Trout in the Classroom.” Students, with their teacher’s guidance, raised the fish from eggs in the classroom. Because the “chiller,” which is essential for maintaining the cold-water temperature trout require, was failing, the cost of a new chiller was also covered under the grant.
On release day, the highlight and culmination of the program is a field trip to the town’s Granbrook Park. There, staff from the Farmington River Watershed Association hosted a Habitat Station with students to measure several physical parameters of water quality in Salmon Brook such as temperature, pH, and velocity. They also demonstrated how a multiparameter probe is used to measure dissolved oxygen and turbidity in streams. Volunteers from Trout Unlimited also helped students with macroinvertebrate sampling and introduced them to fly fishing techniques.
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Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook Wild & Scenic 