On July 15, a final report was submitted for the Kansas Green Schools Water Quality Grant awarded earlier by Kansas Association of Conservation and Environmental Education (KACEE) and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. This grant advanced Prairie Moon Waldorf School, the first Kansas Green School in Douglas County, as a leading environmental school in northeast Kansas. Three major goals were fulfilled through the grant: (1) to develop a Prairie Moon Nature Curriculum, including a garden curriculum, which will teach about non-point source pollution; (2) to offer a 2009 Prairie Moon Water summer session, including instruction about water quality and water conservation; and (3) to constuct a rain barrel system for watering the Okanis Garden and other beds and plants on the school grounds.
For (3) above, it was determined to construct a rain tank system, consisting of two 425-gallon farm tanks, elevated on cinder blocks.
