Excerpt from Union Tribune:
"Dozens of scientists, engineers and volunteers in wet suits and immersed in 67-degree water are setting up sensitive equipment along Imperial Beach's shoreline to better understand water pollution.
The work is part of a $1.5 million experiment that may help manage beach closures along the entire California coast.
Scientists with UCSD's Scripps Institution of Oceanography say the goal of the Imperial Beach Pollutant Transport and Dilution Experiment is to track how pollutants are moved by waves, currents and tides.
Yesterday, investigators dropped floating devices called drifters, which move like dye, into the Pacific Ocean. Dye testing is set to begin Monday.
Drifters and dye both simulate pollution. However, drifters provide better data for how fast pollutants spread along the shore while dye better monitors cross-shore movement.
The drifters and nontoxic dye will be released from the Tijuana River to just north of the Imperial Beach city limit, depending on the swell and other conditions. "
The issue for this story is that scientists are studying the flow of pollution from the Tijuana river to north of Imperial Beach. They took trackers and put them in the water to see where they end up in a certain amount of time. To find out more information, we could research and follow up the Union Tribune's articles that feature San Diego's water pollution.
The story relates to our class because of pollution, investigating the water, and writing an article on it. It could tie into our project if anyone does a topic on water pollution.
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