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Live Entertainment
Local musicians, singers and songwriters
Informational Events:
Local Tree Tour
Free Well Water Testing
Children's Area Activities
Free Games, Crafts, and many other activities!
Booths and Exhibits
Displays by over 50 local non-profit organizations, state agencies, and businesses
in the areas of land conservation, waste, water, renewable energy, green building,
environmental education, environmental health, environmental products and services and more:
Ground Water models
What makes the blue sky brown
How Wal-Mart helps the environment with its sustainability program
Ways to reduce CO2
What is toilet trash?
How the climate change affects migratory birds
Alternative transportation
How trees help the environment
Alternative energy products, solar panels, wind turbines, solar lighting
Portneuf Water Quality, how you can help of hinder
Portneuf Greenway
Energy saving & energy star products
Recycling
Household hazardous waste
Residential underground fuel storage tanks and ground water contamination prevention
Recycling your ink cartridges
What you can do to help preserve wildlife
Motor oil recycling
Learn how to reduce your global climate foot print
Responsible pet ownership
Other Activities
Drop off your used cell phones. The phones will be recycled for the Cell Phones
for Soldiers program. The phones will be recycled to buy pre-paid calling cards to send to
our service people serving over seas
May is National Bike to Work month. The Bannock Transportation Planning Organization
will have information available at their booth (look for the PRT bus) about Bike to Work and the
Employee Challenge. The program is to educate the community that bicycles are a beneficial mode
of transportation. Better health, cleaner air, and cash in your pocket.
Portneuf Valley Bike to Work
Pocatello Water Pollution Control will give away grease cans for your kitchen - so you
don't have to pour cooking grease and oils down your drain.
Free Water Testing For Private Well Owners
Private well owners, have you ever wondered how good your well water really is?
Just because it tastes good, is it safe for your family?
Here’s one way can you find out?
On Fair day, April 23, from 11 am to 3 pm, DEQ and the Idaho Rural Water Association will offer
free well water testing for nitrate. Samples are analyzed on the spot, the process usually takes
less than five minutes, and results are given directly to the homeowner. If the nitrate level in a
sample is elevated, the homeowner can get information on health concerns, where to get additional testing
done, or on the available treatment options.
Sampling your water is simple and should be done on the same day as the Fair. Take a
clean jar or “zipper-type” baggie and label the outside with your name or address, date, and well name
(garden well, house well etc.). Use a water source that is not connected to any treatment device
(water softener, carbon filter, or other filtration system). An outside faucet or hydrant works best.
Allow the water to run 10 to 15 minutes to empty the pressure tank so water comes directly from the aquifer.
This will give more accurate results. Rinse the bottle and lid in the water to be sampled (if using a jar).
Fill the container with about 1 cup of water. Keep your sample cool until you arrive at the Fair.
Nitrate can enter your well or water system through natural and human sources. The natural sources include
animal wastes and decomposing plant material. Human sources of nitrate are sewage (septic tanks, municipality
discharge, and storm overflow), fertilizers from lawns and golf courses, and agricultural runoff from feedlots
and cropland. Excess amounts of nitrate in your drinking water can cause low levels of dissolved oxygen (hypoxia)
in animals, brown blood disease in fish, blood poisoning in infants, hypertension in children, gastric cancers in
adults, fetal abnormalities, and spontaneous abortions. In addition, nitrate reacts directly with the hemoglobin
in red blood cells to reduce oxygen levels in the bloodstream which results in methemoglobinemia or blue baby
syndrome.This is a potentially fatal condition in infants under the age of 6 months. Homeowners who rely on private
wells for their drinking water supply should, at a minimum, have their water tested annually for nitrate and coliform
bacteria. Wells located near an intensive agricultural area should be tested for pesticides, in addition to nitrate
and bacteria. Wells located near a landfill or factory should also be tested for volatile organic compounds. In addition,
pay attention to changes in the taste, odor, or appearance of well water especially after the well system has been
serviced or after a flooding event.
For more information, contact Shannon Ansley at the Department of Environmental Quality, 236-6160.
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