Watershed Awareness Day
The Conservation District and the Borough of Emmaus jointly hosted its 7th Annual Watershed Awareness Day at Macungie Memorial Park on May 10, 2009. The event, which was shortened to morning hours from 8:30-11:00 a.m., had been moved to Macungie Park this year due to busing concerns. Over 250 eighth grade students from the East Penn School District participated in the event. This year's event featured about eighteen different presentations from a wide variety of natural resource agencies and private companies engaged in natural resource work. All presenters offered their programs free of charge. The presenters at this event conducted a series of 20-minute presentations throughout the day, geared to fourteen-year old students. The presentations covered a few main ideas on a topic related to water resources. Students, in class-sized groups, rotated through five or six different 20-minute presentations.
