Device could help local water testing - al.com

Device could help local water testing - al.com: "MIFLIN — Homer Singleton leaned over the rail of the Baldwin County 20 bridge lowering a black cylinder into the water of Sandy Creek south of Elberta.

Within seconds, numbers flashed on a handheld monitor's small screen, indicating the water's temperature, salinity, oxygen levels and other information.

'That would have taken 30 or 40 minutes before and there are some things you just about couldn't do,' he said, and fed out more cable, dropping the probe deeper into the water. 'Now look,' he said."