Secchi Day coming up August 18, 2012

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Water Education Center open house noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 27, 2012

You Are Invited

Open House for Water Education Center

Join us from noon to 2 p.m., Wednesday, June 27^th

301 N. Primrose Road, Lowell, Ark.

Take a guided tour of the Water Education Center!

Light Refreshments (hot dogs & chips) will be served.

Short Program at 12:30 p.m.

The Center includes:

* Scale Drinking Water Plant Model

* Interactive Kiosks exploring History of Water, Water Treatment, and Watersheds

* Wall Size Watershed Map

* Scavenger hunt and Beaver Lake Watershed Passport and Stickers for Children

* LID (Low Impact Development) Walking Tour

* LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Building information

In March of 2011, Beaver Water District was awarded a three-year grant of $229,250 from The Walton Family Foundation to enhance and accelerate the creation of a comprehensive Water Education Center. The Water Education Center is designed to educate both children and adults about the value of drinking water and stewardship of the watershed as a natural resource. The Water Education Center’s instructional opportunities go hand-in-hand with the District’s K-12 programs for the schools. For more information, visit www.bwdh2o.org.  Beaver Water District supplies drinking water to more than 300,000 people and industries in Fayetteville, Springdale, Rogers, Bentonville and surrounding areas, or one in 10 Arkansans.

Amy Wilson, Director of Public Affairs

Beaver Water District

301 N. Primrose Road, Lowell, AR  72745

479-756-3651/awilson@bwdh2o.org

www.bwdh2o.org

“Thousands have lived without love, not one without water."

W.H. Auden 

Fall Festival at Hobbs State Park and Conservation Area needs a fiddler to welcome people to the event

The Hobbs State Park – Conservation Area Fall Festival will be celebrated from 1:00 p.m. to

4:00 p.m. on Sunday October 7th.  We will have activities planned at the visitor center as well as at Historic Van Winkle Hollow.

I need some help in finding a volunteer musician who will play their instrument (guitar, banjo, harmonica…It doesn’t matter) as well as greet the public as they enter Van Winkle Hollow to experience the activities there.

Can anyone suggest to me someone who I might contact for this enjoyable job?

Steve Chyrchel, Interpreter

Hobbs State Park – Conservation Area

479-789-50006

Steve.chyrchel@arkansas.gov

Steve Chyrchel, Interpretive Naturalist 
Hobbs State Park - Conservation Area
20201 E. Hwy 12
Rogers, Arkansas 72756                                 
Phone:  479-789-5006
Fax:       479-789-2151
steve.chyrchel@arkansas.gov

To learn more about the park and scheduled events
http://www.friendsofhobbs.com/new/index.php

http://www.arkansasstateparks.com

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May 19, 2012, cleanup day at West Fork of the White River in Northwest Arkansas

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Association for Beaver Lake Environment invites everyone to attend Tuesday, May 17, 2012, meeting in Rogers to hear Susan Young's presentation on the White River before Beaver Lake's dam was constructed

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Susan Young (left) and Shiloh Museum director Allyn Lord after an earlier presentation

May 19, 2012, West Fork Cleanup Day

Help Clean Up West Fork of the White River on morning of Saturday, May 19, 2012

News Release

For information call Nicole Hardiman at 422-1014

Volunteers needed for West Fork Watershed Cleanup on May 19^th

For immediate release – April 24, 2012

The 7th annual West Fork Watershed Cleanup will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, May 19, at Riverside Park, located off state Hwy. 170 in quaint downtown West Fork. Volunteers will check in from 8-9:30 a.m. at the park, then fan out to stations along the river and clean up targeted areas. Volunteers are then invited to enjoy a burrito buffet beginning at 11 a.m.

Volunteers are needed and may pre-register by calling 479-422-1014 or 479-225-1611. Volunteers also may show up that day and register on-site.  Children under 18 must be accompanied by an adult. Cleanup participants will be supplied with trash bags, maps to cleanup locations, gloves, and reusable water bottles filled with chilled tap water. All volunteers will be required to sign up and complete liability forms. Sites on the cleanup list include Riverside Park, Baptist Ford, Dye Creek Road, Woolsey Bridge, Brentwood Mountain Road, and the Winslow Ballpark.

“The West Fork of the White River flows into Beaver Lake,” said Nicole Hardiman, who works for the Northwest Arkansas Land Trust, one of the event sponsors. “Beaver Lake is our drinking water, so we gather annually to clean up the West Fork and build awareness about our precious water resources.”

Mayor Frances Hime has been volunteering for the cleanup for several years, and she’s proud to be there once again.

“When we clean up the West Fork River and its watershed, we are protecting our source of safe drinking water and caretaking wildlife habitat,” Hime said. “We love rallying the troops to help with this task. We want everyone to come out and enjoy beautiful Riverside Park in West Fork and help us with the cleanup.”

As in years past, the event is being coordinated by the West Fork Watershed Alliance. Sponsors and partners also include Arkansas Stream Team, Arkansas Canoe Club, Arvest Bank, Beaver Water District, City of West Fork, Keep Arkansas Beautiful, Pack Rat Outdoor Center, Tyson Foods, University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service, Washington County Environmental Affairs, the Watershed Conservation Resource Center, Audubon Arkansas, Beaver Watershed Alliance, Ozark Natural Foods, Sam’s Club, and West Fork Cafe. A flyer about the event may be downloaded from the Beaver Water District’s website at www.bwdh2o.org.

Dan Millican talks about impaired urban streams in Arkansas

Preview sample of short takes to run Sunday through Friday, Feb. 12-17, 2012. You too can do a short take each week FREE at Fayetteville Public Television. Shows run on the Internet site of YOUR-MEDIA and on both Cox Cable 218 and AT&T Uverse 99 several times each week.

Dan Millican removes litter from shoreline of a stretch of the Town Branch of the West Fork of the White River

Women who have worked to protect water quality in northwest Arkansas discuss decades of activism