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PA Senior Environment Corps Water Quality Monitoring Training Schedule
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Nature Abounds and the Pennsylvania Senior Environment Corps have set some dates for water quality monitoring for current and new volunteers. Dates have been set as follows: April 5 - Elk County; April 7 - McKean County; April 11 - Lancaster County; April 12 - Adams County; April 13 - Indiana County; April 18 - Philadelphia (Center in the Park on Germantown Rd.); and May 2 - Clearfield County.
PaSEC trainings are also being planned (dates still yet to be determined) for the following locations: Crawford County, Blair County, Centre County, Harrisburg area, Montgomery County (PEAK Center in Lansdale). A training was held in Schuylkill County in late March.
To become a volunteer with the PaSEC, a person needs to be aged 55+, live in the county where the training will occur, and have an interest in the outdoors. Besides water quality monitoring, volunteers may assist with wildlife observing and reporting, assessing stream habitat and/or riparian buffers, trail restoration, or general office support.
The PaSEC has been active since 1997, monitoring the 86,000 miles of streams across the Commonwealth, marking abandoned wells, restoring trails, and providing environmental education to the public.
The PaSEC program is supported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 319 Non-point Source Program as well as matching funds from the Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds, and is under the guidance of the Department of Environmental Protection.
For more information about any of the trainings or about becoming a PaSEC volunteer or sponsor for a new PaSEC group, please contact Melinda Hughes-Wert at Nature Abounds. She can be reached by sending email to: volunteer@natureabounds.org or call 814-765-1453.
Nature Abounds, the coordinating organization of the PaSEC, is a national non-profit, bringing people together for a healthy planet.
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4/4/2011 |
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