Saturday, October 1, 2011

Lake Wallace Clean-up, Sat Oct 1, 2011




Forecast of thunderstorms kept other volunteers away.  Belchertown High School Science teachers Louise Levy and Dave Monroe spent an enjoyable time scouting and scouring, but delightfully, didn't find much trash!  The resident beaver has raised the level of the water substantially and we suspect that there's lots more trash under the water, out of sight.   We will be checking the school calendar to reschedule the trail maintenance within the next few weeks and looking into ways to expand the clean-up for next year with more partners and further down the Lampson Brook... with the appropriate permissions, of course.

We worked between the raindrops and collaborated on new and better ways to engage our students outdoors on the BHS campus and at Lake Wallace ... just across the street from the Belchertown schools.  We worked out preliminary plans to transform a patch of woodland on the BHS campus into a study site for Biology classes and discussed who to involve in a school-garden beautification project.  Other topics included inter-school collaboration and community engagement once Andrea Donlon, River Steward for the Connecticut River Watershed Council, stopped by for a visit.  Just goes to show you just how much we can do when we have a chance to chat!




go to the CRWC's website for more info about the clean-up, river-wide.
http://www.ctriver.org

For the CRWC's Cleanup Chronicle, go to ...
http://www.ctriver.org/documents/S2S/Cleanup%20Chronicle%202011.pdf
we're listed as BEST of Lake Wallace in the Massachusetts listing

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