by Rich Collins | Jun 26, 2013 | Youth Conservation Corps (YCC)
On Monday, the AWWA Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) kicked off its 8th season of erosion control landscaping. The past 7 seasons have been a great success with the installation of 476 Best Management Practices (BMPs) on 123 properties across 10 lakes. These projects...
by Rich Collins | Jun 20, 2013 | AWWA News
On June 19th, if you were driving down Route 153 by Province Lake around 1 o’clock, you may have seen about a dozen people standing on the border between Maine and New Hampshire. At first glance, with the weather being so lovely, these folks could have been...
by Rich Collins | Jun 17, 2013 | AWWA in the Schools
On Friday June 14th, the Wakefield Paul school 6th Graders took a field trip with AWWA to Portsmouth for their last Watershed Education class of the year. Friday marked the culmination of the several weeks AWWA spent in the classroom this spring. AWWA stresses the...
by Rich Collins | Jun 11, 2013 | AWWA in the Schools
In the fall of 2011 AWWA began the task of writing school curriculum that would combine AWWA’s watershed education with the Wakefield Paul School and Acton Elemenatry teacher’s schedule. Over the past two years we have been teaching 6th, 7th, and 8th...
by Rich Collins | Jun 3, 2013 | AWWA News, Youth Conservation Corps (YCC)
Well…it’s June, and that means that summer is nearly upon us. Many of you have probably spent the last month or two opening up your seasonal camps and cottages, throwing the windows open, raking up the leaves and acorns, and removing debris from your...
