Counter Culture Labs:Environmental Justice Project

Environmental Justice Project Group Page

• contact: Zach Smith, Project Organizer - zach.dsmith27@gmail.com
• goal: to identify and address social inequities within our local community as they relate to the consequences of human activity and climate change, with a general interest in water, air, and soil quality
• main function: to assist in community efforts to address aforementioned inequities, coordinating with local organizations and stakeholders to identify relevant and efficacious efforts for us to participate in

previous workshops: 2/04 Temescal Creek Bacterial contamination monitoring

• members of the lab teamed up to test water quality of local creek, Temescal Creek, at various points using R-cards to test for relative contamination of common bacteria

what are R-cards?: https://www.rothbioscience.com/collections/r-card-products Above: Map of Temescal Creek and the points from which we took samples

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  R-Card of sample taken at Outflow point of creek into the SF Bay

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  R-Card of sample taken from creek at point near busy street

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  R-Card of sample taken from undergound section of creek near Post Office(via run-off drain)

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  R-Card of sample taken from toilet in our lab's Water Closet (as a positive control)

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  R-Card of sample taken from Lake Temescal, point 1

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  R-Card of sample taken from Lake Temescal, point 2

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  R-Card of sample taken from Lake Temescal, point 3

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  R-Card of sample taken from Lake Temescal, point 4

Summer DIY home water quality testing workshop

• members of the lab and local community members brought hot and cold water samples from their home, which we tested for common pollutant contamination using three different online-purchased water quality testing strips

what tests did we use:

• Testpert: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BG63JJ3T
• Varify: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0837Z5PBJ
• JNW: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B06W2JXKD5

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