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Cottonwood Creek gets intensive water quality assessment

Ongoing efforts to monitor Matanuska Valley water systems are being manned by volunteers, who brave foul weather and mosquitoes  to collect accurate data to help fight water pollution.  A few years ago,  many  Wasilla residents noticed white foam on Cottonwood Creek, a stream that meanders through urban congestion.  Their observations spurred an intensive quality assessment program aimed at finding the source of the foam.Ellen Lockyer, KSKA - WasillaDownload audio