Touch the Water

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• Passengers and crew of the A.J. Meerwald, a restored 1928 oyster schooner that sails inland waters to teach city kids about life on the river as well as the creatures alive in it. The Meerwald sails under the flags of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and other organizations;



• Students from Chester County's Oxford High School, who canoed the Octoraro Creek with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation to explore the concept of a watershed and its important role in providing clean, fresh water for daily use;



• Residents of the Babbs Creek Watershed, in Tioga County, who joined forces with the Pennsylvania Environmental Defense Foundation to clean and restore a creek that had been dead-unable to support any life-forms-for over 100 years due to the effect of deep coal mining and acid mine drainage;



• Senior Citizens and students who worked together through the Environmental Alliance for Senior Involvement (EASI) to plant a riparian buffer along the Trindle Springs Run, near Harrisburg, which will improve the quality of the watershed;
  
  
• Angie Halaja, a volunteer with the Sierra Club of Pennsylvania's Harrisburg chapter who organizes the annual Susquehanna River Clean-Up, which both cleans a portion of the river and unites public attention on the river's role and impact on the quality of our life.

Bayshore Discovery Project (formerly the Delaware Bay Schooner Project)

Oxford High School