The Needham (Mass.) Department of Public Works was seeking a way to complete the educational requirement of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program. Kevin Keith, assistant superintendent of the Water and Sewer Department, worked with the Needham Science Center to develop a 30-minute play that taught grades K-5 how stormwater drains function. The play correlated with the youngsters’ science unit on condensation and precipitation.Anne Schloder, then head of the Science Center, was the narrator. She gave a small PowerPoint presentation about how rain happens and where it goes. Besides pictures of catch basins, she held up a plastic
