Join us in this fun-filled segment, as Steven leads students from the Radnor Middle School through a variety of hands-on, outdoor experiments designed to educate young people - and now you, the viewer - about different aspects of watersheds and the water cycle.

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Pennsylvania Resournces Council

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One of the largest threats to rivers and streams is the bank erosion that occurs after heavy storms. This erosion occurs for many reasons, including development of property immediately adjacent to the water. Activities like mowing and hedging decrease the stability of vegetation that normally holds streambanks in place.

The Delaware Riverkeeper Network has been mobilizing people to fight streambank erosion for years - and they do so for good reason. Not only does erosion eat away at people's yards, the sediment that is carried downstream is often deposited someplace else, causing clogs that change streams' routes and even cause flooding.

In this segment, we visit the Riverkeeper for a day of hard work on the waters' edge at Green Lane Creek. By re-grading the banks, planting shrubs and trees and installing some protective netting made of natural fibers, volunteers can go a long way in restoring the health of our waterways. Join us to see the results for yourself.



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Our waterways face many obstacles along the way, and are sometimes stopped in their trek by our marvels of engineering - dams. Many of these dams have long since been abandoned, and no longer serve any of the purposes for which they were originally constructed. These dams are a nuisance to many species living in the waterway - including human beings. For fish, insects and birds, they cause the water to stagnate and block routes of migration that had previously been open for centuries. They can also lead to ice jams, muddied water and various other eye-soars for their aesthetically sensible neighbors.

Recently, many communities have felt a surge of support to remove abandoned damns. In this segment, we travel to Pottstown to witness the removal of a damned dam on the Manatawny Creek. You'll meet with the scientists who support dam removal as a way to improve the health of our rivers, and learn from the local residents who made this particular removal possible.


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Manatawny Creek Ecological Studies of Dam Removal

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The 1960s and '70s witnessed a rush of much-needed environmental legislation designed to protect our air, water and soil. As great as these new laws were, however, they obviously did very little to protect Americans from environmental damage already done.

The commonwealth of Pennsylvania has a long legacy of coal mining, and today faces major water contamination issues due to the hazardous drainage coming from old, abandoned mines. Unlike the better-regulated mines of today, mines that were left-for-bust in the 1940s and '50s have become a major threat to environmental quality and public health. Every time it rains water enters these mines, travels over miles of exposed metals, and then makes its way into our creeks and streams carrying various toxic sediments.

The Pennsylvania Department of Abandoned Mine Reclamation has been working far and wide to repair the damage caused by these mines. In this segment we catch up with one of their crews to learn how their critical work is improving the health of a waterway near Tremont.
This show focuses in on some of the stories of people who are getting into the flow of things and helping to protect Our Watershed!

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