Water Testing Kit

If only the mail would work a tiny bit faster!  Today (one day after our first scheduled outing!) our water testing kit arrived. 

The kit came along with some of the handouts that Mr. Brennan had already given us, but it also came with the items we'd need to test Lake Michigan's water:

A Whirl-Pak for obtaining the water for sampling

Transfer pipettes for measuring the correct amount of water needed for sampling

Petrifilm for culturing of the sample

I'm excited for our first outing, as water testing is something that greatly interests me.  The quality of the water and the presence of any harmful microbial growth is important both environmentally and for population health.