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Water Can Save Winkler | ACTion Alexandria

Washington Post Helps Spread the Word

Here's a Washington Post article from the last time that students here at George Washington Middle School fought for Winkler. If you're working at a newspaper and are interested in getting the word out and sharing our story with your readers, contact us at gwchangeproject@gmail.com.

Our Project

We have been working with our team at G.W. to create a project that can change how people view water pollution.  We are teaming up with Winkler Botanical Preserve to test water from the newly founded BRAC building in attempts to discover harmful water pollution.  Winkler has a set of streams and ponds that are great places to test for the awful chemicals that could potentially harm animals.  The Virginia Department of Transportation has already tried to tear down the beautiful exhibit of wild life, and by many ACPS schools writing to the company, we have been able to persuade them to hold back.  Now we need your help in making Winkler the safe, and environmentally friendly preserve that nature had originally intended.

Water Can Save Winkler

Recently, I have done research at Winkler Botanical Preserve. The preserve is next to the new BRAC building and is by the highway. The purpose of experimenting at Winkler was to figure out if and how the impervious surfaces near Winkler affected the preserve's water quality. What I turned out doing was testing for only Nitrate, Phosphate, and Dissolved Oxygen. These three contaminants were present in abnormal amounts. After several weeks of testing, I found that the impervious surfaces around Winkler were affecting it's water quality in a negative way. Follow us here at GW Change Project and find out more about Winkler and it's amazing elements. More will be posted about Winkler and about what is going on at Winkler.