PA Resources Council Holds Rain Barrel/Watershed Awareness Workshops In April, May

-- April 7 – Mt Lebanon Library -7:00-8:30 p.m.;

 

-- April 14 - Brentwood Public Library -6:30 -8:00 p.m.;

 

-- April 21 - Green Tree Municipal Building -6:30 -8:00 p.m.;

 

-- April 28 - Richland Municipal Building -6:30 -8:00 p.m.;

 

-- May 4 - Pleasant Hills Library –Old Clairton Rd-6:30 -8:00 p.m.;

 

-- May 9 - Schrader Environmental Center, Oglebay Institute, Wheeling, WV 10:00-11:30 a.m.; and

 

-- May 20 – Conservation Consultants, Inc. Center -6:30 -8 p.m.

Spring is here and with its arrival comes the first “harvest” of the season –that most precious resource - available for the taking right over our heads. That’s right! You may be missing out on an abundant, free supply of the earth’s most valuable resource–fresh, clean water!

 

When you attend the workshop you will learn how to harvest rainwater from your roof, store it and use it in your landscape. While enjoying this free source of precious water, you will be contributing to improved water quality in our rivers and streams, and reducing your contribution to combined sewer overflow, flooding and polluted urban/suburban runoff.

 

Learn how to practice watershed protection and conservation in your own backyard. It’s easier than you think!

 

PRC’s Watershed Awareness/Rain Barrel Workshop will raise your awareness of watershed issues, demonstrate how to assemble and install a retrofitted 55-gallon drum/rain barrel, and offer other rainwater harvesting options. Participants will receive the necessary hardware (not the barrel) to assemble and install a rain barrel for rainwater harvesting and on-site usage.

 

The cost for the workshop is $30/person or $40/couple.

This project is partially funded by the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania Citizen Education Fund, a U.S. EPA Section 319 Clean Water Act grant from the Department of Environmental Protection

 

For more information and/or to register contact Nancy at 412-431-4449 x247 or send email to: nancym@ccicenter.org.