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01/05/07
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Old Mill High School student Pat Wiedorn, 18, of Severna Park describes how his team studied the effects of football field fertilizer on a stream near the school. Mr. Wiedorn and his classmates had to combine biology, chemistry and physics for their science projects on a nearby stream as part of their International Baccalaureate classwork.Find Us On Facebook
They wondered if the fertilization of the school's football field might lead to harmful nutrients running off into the stream. So they set out testing the soil and the water from the field to the woods to the stream.
And to their surprise, they found no harmful effects of the fertilizer at all. The trees and plants situated between the gridiron and the stream did exactly what they are supposed to do - they soaked up the excess...
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