Denver Employees Stage WWMD Competition

Partnered with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Colorado Department of Environmental Health to host a monitoring event for 50 fifth grade students at the South Platte River in Confluence Park. Stations provided supplemental learning on macroinvertebrates, pollution, and microbiology. Volunteers visited the classroom prior and after the event to show the video and explain the monitoring process, help the students load the data into the database, and discuss the findings and implications.[br][br]In a second event, the community relations team from the Operations & Maintenance Business Group in Denver challenged co-workers to get out and monitor. Employees were divided into department teams to see which group could achieve the highest employee participation. Two out of the seven teams had every employee involved. Overall, 85 percent of Denver O&M employees participated in WWMD.