PHOTOS: Ankeny High School Students Study Water Quality of Four Mile Creek

From Ankeny Schools

There are indications that water quality in Fourmile Creek is good and will remain that way in the future.

Using nets and sifting pans, Ankeny High School students found aquatic life living in the central Iowa waterway at Mally’s Park.  A water test also showed good levels of dissolved oxygen.

“What lives in the water tells you about water quality,” Jacklyn Gautsch, an Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) biologist, told the students as they handled and identified creatures they found, which included two caddisfly larvae.

“They are pollution intolerant, so that is a good indicator,” Gautsch added.

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