Trace Vanilla and Cinnamon in the River? Must Be Thanksgiving

What is Thanksgiving’s impact on local waterways? That’s a question the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences hopes to answer.On Thanksgiving last week, the university along with its partners in the project, Milwaukee Riverkeeper, Urban Ecology Center and Carroll University, took samples from the Milwaukee, Kinnickinnic and Menomonee rivers. In the days following the holiday, water samples were taken again from the exact same spots. Val Klump, dean of the School of Freshwater Sciences, told Milwaukee Public Radio that the idea is to see if trace amounts of substances associated with Thanksgiving activities show up in the river water samples.“One