About 20 students from John Diefenbaker Secondary School are going around Hanover after school today painting yellow fish beside the storm sewer drains.
It’s all part of the Yellow Fish Road project — an environmental education program designed to let the public know what goes down the drains ends up in our rivers.
Students Katrina Granger and Amanda Gaasenbeek are leading the campaign.
They say many people don’t think about all the litter as well as pollutants that end up in the Saugeen River as a result of the storm drains.
They say preventing pollutants from entering the storm drains is critical to protecting and improving water quality and aquatic habitat.
They hope the painted yellow fish will serve as a powerful reminder that these storm drains are the gateway to our rivers.
Granger and Gaasenbeek call the project a simple yet effective way of getting this important message out.
As well as painting the yellow fish, the students will be hanging informational door hangers on houses near the painted drains.
