SEWAGE SISTERS
The study of limnology (fresh water from the earth’s surface) was an important aspect in the class of Advanced Biology. By understanding the concept of limnology, the students of years past were required to know all that was needed in dealing with sewage treatment. Each year students designed projects to study; in hopes of someday their ideas would be used to help mankind and his environment. The students had learned that the Cascade Reservoir was suffering due to the process of eutrophication, (aging of the lake by excess of nutrients, water becoming more shallow, plant overgrowth) or in this case, cultural eutrophication, being that the lake is man made, this process has occurred more rapidly than that of natural lakes. Among the individuals who worked on the water treatment, four students who claimed themselves to be the “Sewage Sisters,” were determined to fix the problem. Finding information from a small article in a “ National Geographic” magazine, the article featured a British company called Biotechna. The article praised about a new sewage system, one that looked promising. It was called the Biocoil.