Six DEP Northcentral Regional Office staff: John Ryder, Jared Dressler, Dave Rebuck, Steve Means, Derik Dressler, and Cheryl Sinclair, led stations on groundwater, general water quality, and fish ecology at the first Columbia County Water Education Day on September 16 at Briar Creek Park near Berwick, Columbia County.

They helped 507 eighth grade students from six school districts better understand water sources, how it becomes polluted, and the connection between land and water through tools like groundwater models, stream tables, and macroinvertebrate analysis. The theme was "Good Water = Good Life."

The Columbia-Montour Coalition for Source Water Protection and the Columbia County Conservation District coordinated the event through a grant from PA American Water.

Other participants included the Fish and Boat Commission, Natural Resource Conservation Service, PA American Water, Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania Rural Water Association, United Water PA, Larson Design Group, and three local watershed groups.

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(Reprinted from the October 15 edition of DEP News. Click Here to sign up for your own copy.)

10/19/2015