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Ohio Successful project expands to include new waterways The Ohio Water Sentinels project is expanding its monitoring efforts in 2002 to include intensive sampling of metro Cincinnati's stormwater runoff and raw sewage overflows. The project will conduct stream sampling throughout the city's urban watersheds. Since the Sierra Club Water Sentinels project began in Ohio, the following accomplishments have been achieved: 85 Good Neighbor Campaign volunteers turned out to clean metallic soot from the rain gutters of Middletown residents. The volunteers collected more than 150 pounds of the particulate pollution, had it tested, and then delivered the test results and the pollution to the AK Steel shareholders meeting in Delaware. The United Steelworkers union and the Sentinels released a report by an environmental consultant that identified potential threats to public health from AK's Hamilton, Ohio, steel plant (and Superfund site). Read more... The Sentinels are training steelworkers to conduct water-quality monitoring below AK Steel's Mansfield, Ohio, plant. The Ohio Sentinels project is expanding its monitoring efforts in 2002 to include intensive sampling of metro Cincinnati's stormwater runoff and raw sewage overflows. The project will conduct stream sampling throughout the city's urban watersheds. Photo: Ohio Water Sentinels group prepares to test the water. Photo by Rachael Belz. Up to Top HOME | Email Signup | About Us | Contact Us | Terms of Use | © 2008 Sierra Club