Gotham JA Miele, Sr, PE

Water conservation cleans Long Island Sound, RL Swanson, DJ Tonjes

Marine vessels serving New York City, W Goyzueta, J Chen, K Byrnes, R Ferro

Line stops avoid bypass in pumping station, F Gallo

Pilot biological nutrient removal, B Bodniewicz, K Mahoney

Enhanced beach protection — 2000, FJ Oliveri, F Loncar, M Ellis

Telemetering in New York, S Rozelman, S Aziz

Job order contracting, MP Quinn, P Schrayer

Operational benefits of celebrating Water Week, RE Adamski, H Einsohn, M Keating, A Lamarche, B Olivieri

CSO signage: expanded notification, S Rozelman, P Lutz, F Loncar

Brooklyn student wins water prize

Executive director's message, P Cerro-Reehil

People and places

Summer 2001 — Vol. 31, No. 2

Jacqueline Ling, a student at Midwood High School in Brooklyn, was selected from New York State to compete in the national competition for the Stockholm Junior Water Prize. The Stockholm Junior Water Prize is an international environmental award presented to an individual or team of young people for the most outstanding water-related science project. The mission of the competition is to engage, encourage, and support the interest of future leaders in water environment issues.

The New York Water Environment Association's Public Education Committee selected Ms. Ling from three entries for New York State. She was originally identified at Polytechnic University's Science, Mathematics and Technology Fair in March 2001 by Chris Roschek a member of the NYWEA Public Education Committee. Roschek said Ling, "did a really fantastic job and should have a good chance to represent New York at the national and international levels."

Ling's project is "The Effects and Mechanisms of Action of Endocrine-disrupting Chemical Pollutants on Reproductive System Development." She outdid Jessica Van der Meulen from Liverpool who researched the use of wetlands for treating animal wastes and Brian Moy of Wappinger Falls who investigated pollutants in water bodies around Poughkeepsie and Newburgh.

National contest

In the next phase of the competition, Ling will compete against students from across the U.S. If she prevails there, she will win an expense-paid trip to Sweden where she will contend in the international competition during World Water Week, August 12-16.

The competition is administered globally by the Stockholm International Water Institute. First awarded in 1995, the number of participating countries has grown to twenty. ITT Industries is the international sponsor. Last year's winner was Ashley Mulroy from West Virginia whose research on antibiotics in the Ohio River was featured in People magazine and USA Today. In 1998 the winner was Brett DePoister of Reading, Pennsylvania who researched frogs and inspired "Frogline," an educational video available from the Water Environment Federation, DePoister attends SUNY Stony Brook.