Protecting Our Watersheds

Wach the Show Now!

• Dr. Wanda Filer, PA Physician General, with a message about water quality and health;

• "Do You Know Your Watershed Address?"-basics on the concept of a watershed;

• The journey of water, as told by the seventh grade class of "Environmental Ed"-follow water from the headwaters of a tiny stream through a water treatment plant, your home, and on to wastewater treatment plants, from which it heads back into the stream;

• An education program in Harrisburg in which eighth graders learn about water monitoring as they collect water quality data for use by the PA Department of Environmental Protection;

• The Enviroscope Model-a three-dimensional, table-top model of urban and suburban development used by the Dauphin County Conservation District to illustrate how the pollution we create ends up in our drinking water, and the methods available to prevent pollution runoff;

• The work of the French Creek Project, centered in Crawford County, to preserve the biodiversity that makes French Creek one of the greatest natural spots in America;

• The Sewickley Creek Watershed Association, which has developed a unique system to clean water polluted by acid mine drainage by filtering it through a man-made wetland;

• The 14 Centre County municipalities encompassing the Spring Creek Watershed, which have worked together on stream bank fencing, riparian planting and other projects to improve the quality of the watershed;

• Ty Cobb, who worked with the Bradford County Conservation District to control agricultural runoff from his dairy farm, including dirty wash water from milking equipment that otherwise flowed into a drainage ditch;

• The efforts of the Cobbs Creek Watershed Environmental Education Center, in Philadelphia, to inform urban audiences of the many ways our actions directly affect local watersheds;

• Appleton Papers Inc., in Cumberland County, which reduced its impact on the local watershed by implementing a "zero discharge" program and by drastically cutting water usage.

GreenWorks TV hosts Susan Harral and Tom Sexton bring the show to you from several picturesque waterways in central Pennsylvania-including the beautiful Susquehanna River.

Get Involved:
Cobbs Creek Watershed
63rd and Catherine St.
Philadelphia, PA

French Creek Project
Box 172
Allegheny College
Meadville, PA, 16335
Phone: (814) 332-2946

Pennsylvania Department of Health
815 Health and Welfare Building
PO Box 90
Harrisburg, PA, 17108
Phone: (717) 772-6959

Sewickley Creek Watershed Association
PO Box 323
Youngwood, PA, 15697
Phone: (724) 925-9190
Fax: (724) 925-9190