YCC - Youth Conservation Corps
awwaadmin April 25th, 2008
The AWWA Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) implements erosion mitigation projects on streams, rivers, lakes and ponds in our target region. Each showcases solutions to environmental problems faced by waterfront properties. These solutions are called Best Management Practices (BMPs). Behind these projects is a crew of eager students supervised by a crew leader and a technical director. The YCC program gives its youth corps the opportunity to effect environmental solutions and empowers them to become the future stewards of our water resources.
AWWA YCC project sites are chosen based on the following criteria:
1. Sites will be chosen from all requests for participation. 2. They must of an appropriate size and difficulty for the YCC, which uses hand tools only. 3. Sites will be selected that have a relatively high impact to water quality, using sediment load estimates where possible. 4. Each Erosion Control project represents an example of a Best Management Practice (BMP). Therefore, efforts will be made to choose sites whose solutions will provide examples of a wide variety of different BMPs. 5. Efforts should be made to include at least one project on each lake in the service area. 6. All other factors being equal, the projects should be visible and accessible to the public for inspection, to more fully raise awareness of erosion from storm water runoff and encourage other property owners to participate in the solutions.~
Please take a look at our previous season reports for some examples of the work the YCC has done to prevent pollution from entering the lakes and streams of the AWWA region.
Are you concerned about how your property might be affecting the water quality?
Click on the link to print the Request for Assistance form and mail it to the address on the form. Or feel free to contact Technical Director, Adam Shoukimas for more information at 603-473-2500 or techdirector@AWwatersheds.org
This project is supported by funds from the sale of the Conservation License Plate (Moose Plate) under the NH State Conservation Committee grant program.
Funding for the AWWA YCC program was provided by the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation – Lakes Region.