Students and staff are lining up to fill their water bottles with healthy, delicious filtered water from the school’s first new water bottle filling station, conveniently located in the Multi-Purpose Room. The filling station was installed over spring break and has already been used to fill up 780 bottles of water. If lined up in a row, that many bottles would stretch to over 162 feet, about half the length of a football field. That’s a great positive impact on the environment, with fewer plastic bottles to dispose of, and the school family is also saving money and being encouraged to drink more water.
The water bottle filling station, which also has a regular water fountain in the front, was purchased with a grant from the AtlantiCare Healthy Schools, Healthy Children program. AtlantiCare Lead School Health Specialist Amy Hogan visited ACS on Friday (pictured above) to see the new water bottle filling station and Chief School Administrator Karen Oblen thanked AtlantiCare for its grant support. ACS is also grateful to Lowe’s in Egg Harbor Township for providing discounted pricing on the Elkay machine and to Gary Higbee Plumbing and Heating for donating its services to install it.