- October 13, 2024
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Damon Moore, the executive director of Oyster River Ecology Inc., held up an oyster rag pot with dozens of oysters attached to it.
He told class after class at Braden River Elementary School that the rag pots and oysters will help clear water pollution as the oysters filter the water.
With the Braden River Elementary School students making 500 oyster rag pots, Moore said those will result in 1,250,000 gallons of water being filtered each day.
"That seems like the whole ocean," said Lucy Wells, a third grader.
The oyster rag pot project was one activity during Everglades Week, in which students learned about various habitats, animals, plants and more that can be found in the Everglades.
Students went straight to work Sept. 12. Each of them grabbed a metal spike, put a square wooden spacer on it and cut a whole into a white rag so they could then place the rag on top of the spacer.
Moore said within a week or two, he would cover the students' pots in cement and once dried, they would be placed at the bottom of a river so oysters could attach to them and begin filtering the water.