More than 500 local students attended the Anacostia River Festival

June 2, 2003 -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Office of Water participated in Washington D.C.'s annual Anacostia River Environmental Fair held on May 9. 2003.

This marks the sixth year that EPA has participated The fair was an outdoors exhibition featuring a variety of hands-on water education and environmental activities for school children in grades five through twelve.

The Office of Water helped students build an "aquifer in a cup" to learn how aquifers store water, how ground water becomes contaminated, and how contamination may end up in a drinking water source. For more information, please contact Harriet Hubbard at 202-564-4621.