Over 300 students flooded Father Sheehan Park for the Stormwater Festival, an educational opportunity for local area students to learn about science, the effects of stormwater pollution on Butte's waterways and planned improvements for the park, among other topics.
Zach Heffernan, a Water and Environmental Technologies landscape architect, speaks with fifth-graders from Emerson Elementary while using a portable stream table to demonstrate the concept of a floodplain during the Stormwater Festival on Thursday at Father Sheehan Park.
Thursday's festivalòòò½ÊÓƵwas sponsored byòòò½ÊÓƵRipple (formerly the Clark Fork Education Program), Water & Environmental Technologies (WET), and Butte-Silver Bow Parks and Recreation.
Kennedy Elementary fifth-grader Grant Basnett gently holds a pouch snail, from genus Physidae, in a plastic spoon at an inspection booth during the Stormwater Festival on Thursday at Father Sheehan Park.