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Education and Outreach

Is your organization interested in starting a new education and outreach campaign? Does your organization need assistance with implementing and supporting an existing education and outreach effort? WAY can help.

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Eden Mill Nature Center

Oakes Museum

Susquehanna Greenways Partnership

York County Parks & Recreation

Consumerism and Conservation

The Story of Stuff

Managing Your Onsite Stormwater for Homeowners

WAY offers its "Be Water Wise: Managing Your Onlot Stormwater" to homeowners, free of charge. We can deliver this 2-hour public education and outreach program to your consitutents, at your location. Or, homeowners may learn about managing their onsite stormwater by downloading the PowerPoint presentation below.

Be Water Wise: Managing Your Onlot Stormwater

Municipal Stormwater Sewer Systems (MS4) Training

WAY offers its "Pollution Prevention and Good Housekeeping Best Management Practices" to elected officials and municipal employees upon request, free of charge. This training is an 8-hour workshop and can be delivered at your facility, as time and resources allow.

Watersheds and Wetlands School Programs

WAY's partners offer "Watersheds and Wetlands" School programs, grades 4-12, for a fee. These programs are designed for enhancing your in-door and out-door classroom experience and resources while achieving the Pennsylvania Department of Education's Environment & Ecology academic standards. We can customize each program to help satisfy your teaching needs.

Watersheds & Wetlands Lesson Plans Grades 4-12

Rainwater Conservation Barrels

Be water wise and conserve rain water at home for watering your garden, potted plants, and landscape. The York County Conservation District and Nixon Park offer a 2-hour workshop on "Be Water Wise: Rain Barrel Water Conservation" in the spring, annually. Learn how rain barrels work and make one of your own, for a nominal fee. Or, you may learn about rain barrels and their construction by downloading the PowerPoint presentation below.

Be Water Wise: Rainwater Conservation

WAY Exhibit Display

Would you like WAY to provide a public education and outreach exhibit display at your event? Use the easy and convenient form on this page to request an exhibit display. Please give us at least 90-days notice, if possible.

When It Rains, It Drains Brochure

Watershed Weekend

Watershed Weekend is our annual public education, restoration and protection opportunity for our partners to sponsor a venue that will attract the public and get them involved supporting their cause. Partners provide venue planning and operation, and WAY provides education and outreach, facilitation, and technical assistance. Watershed Weekend is held the last full weekend of September, annually. If you're organization is interested in sponsoring a venue, please let us know.

Venue Sponsor Registration Form

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Public-Private Partnership

Watershed Alliance of York, Inc.

118 Pleasant Acres Road, York, PA 17402

Tel: 717-840-7430 * Fax: 717-755-0301 * E-mail: yorkccd@yorkccd.org

www.watershedsyork.org