UPDATE--POSTPONED DUE TO SNOWSTORM: How Clean Are Our Neighborhood Streams?

How Clean Are Your Neighborhood Streams?

Posted by: Noel Jones


UPDATE: DUE TO THE IMPENDING SNOWSTORM, THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN POSTPONED--I WILL POST ANOTHER UPDATE ONCE A NEW DATE HAS BEEN SET

Below is an announcement from Sophia Feller at the WWNP:

Citizen Vigilance is Key to Healthy Streams ~Help Care for OUR Water

WEST WARD WATER WORKS

Presents it’s second workshop on the health of the Bushkill 

and the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers

6 to 8 pm Tuesday, February 9, 2010

 Olivet Presbyterian Church

12th and Northampton St.

·      6:00 p.m. Dr Joseph Colosi of DeSales University will present his in-depth research into the endocrine disruption problem that is currently growing as a health

concern in our local waters.

·      7:00 p.m. A panel of involved citizens and experts* will discuss utilizing youth training in partnership with adult volunteers to analyze freshwater streams in the Easton area including the Bushkill Creek and the Lehigh and Delaware Rivers

(*Speakers on the panel will include representatives from PIX (a coalition of waste water treatment facilities) The Bushkill Stream Conservancy, Easton Area High School, Trout Unlimited, Delaware Riverkeepers Network and others.)

Organizations or individuals who have interest in environmental water studies should attend this meeting.