Last May, students from Keene Montessori School said bon voyage to dozens of friends. We’re not talking classmates — the goodbyes were for trout fingerlings the children had raised from tiny eggs.One by one, the students lined up to dump a cup of water containing a trout into Beaver Brook. Helping was Eric Swope, industrial pretreatment coordinator at the Keene (New Hampshire) Wastewater Treatment Plant. Swope considers it part of his job to teach school children the value of clean water.Start them young“I feel it’s important that students learn from a young age that what gets poured down the drain






















