Watersheds and communities

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10/22/2024 Added

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The annual WET (Water Education for Tomorrow) event for fifth-graders was held on Oct. 8-9, sponsored by ESU13 at the North Platte Natural Resources District. Nebraska Department of Natural Resources Engineer Jared Ashton discusses what their station had for the students.

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[00:00:00.000]The annual WET event, Water Education for Tomorrow, for 5th graders was held on October 8th and 9th
[00:00:06.280]and was sponsored by ESU 13 at the North Platte Natural Resources District.
[00:00:10.820]Jared Ashton, Nebraska Department of Natural Resources Engineer,
[00:00:14.600]says they were teaching kids about the connections between water, watersheds,
[00:00:18.920]and the effects they can have on a human community.
[00:00:21.200]We're really excited to teach kids about how everything in a watershed connects.
[00:00:26.400]When you have rain come down, depending on what kind of development that's happening,
[00:00:31.560]what kind of soils, what kind of everything going on in the watershed,
[00:00:34.980]how that can have different impacts on houses.
[00:00:36.900]So we like to start off with these sponges in here,
[00:00:39.260]and it kind of shows a natural scenario where the sponges act like a wetlands.
[00:00:43.980]So they retain the water, slow it down,
[00:00:46.600]and we talk about how that provides habitat for animals, all sorts of stuff like that.
[00:00:51.580]The model they use has homes on a floodplain and hills.
[00:00:55.750]and students got to choose where they put their houses in both areas, and then the rain came.
[00:01:01.030]And it shows most of the houses stay fine.
[00:01:03.450]So then after that, we come in, replace it with a parking lot and a house,
[00:01:08.530]and it just right away showed them, they all know right away exactly,
[00:01:11.750]they start screaming, oh no, don't do that, it's going to flood.
[00:01:14.390]Yeah, once you replace the natural ground, the sponginess of that,
[00:01:17.710]you get a lot more flooding, you start impacting houses.
[00:01:20.630]And we kind of talk about how, do you protect your house?
[00:01:23.730]And they say, build a levee or build a dam.
[00:01:25.650]It shows how that now starts impacting other houses.
[00:01:28.290]So now you're flooding that house, so they want to build a levee,
[00:01:31.450]and that floods different houses.
[00:01:32.750]So we really like to kind of just show how everything in a watershed impacts a broader system.
[00:01:37.670]More than 300 fifth-graders participated during the two days,
[00:01:41.090]learning about everything from water safety, natural resources, flooding, and irrigation.
[00:01:45.430]Ag Watch has been brought to you by the UNL Panhandle Research Extension and Education Center.

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