Lancaster Water Week Returns with Over 60 Occasions – Cyber Tech

Press launch shared by Lancaster Conservancy, June 6, 2024. Pictures Courtesy of Lancaster Conservancy.

The eighth annual Lancaster Water Week will embody over 60 occasions hosted by a wide range of companions from June 7-15, 2024, offering alternatives to be taught, discover, and act to guard Lancaster County’s waterways. These occasions embody a First Friday celebration and public artwork set up in downtown Lancaster, wetland excursions at Lengthy’s Park, paddles on the Conestoga and Susquehanna rivers, workshops on the Lancaster Science Manufacturing facility, trivia, creek stomps, excursions of restoration and rewilding efforts, volunteer cleanups, and extra.

Lancaster Water Week celebrates the 1,400 miles of streams and rivers in Lancaster County. These waterways are the supply of our ingesting water, drive financial and agricultural development, and permit us to flee into nature to fish, paddle, and swim. Sadly, greater than half of those vital streams and rivers are polluted, however we’re taking motion as a neighborhood to revive our waterways to full well being.

“Clear streams and rivers in our lifetime is a dream of many, and it’s taking place, because of leaders who care about our neighborhood; elected officers, neighborhood teams, farmers, companies, and property house owners are all taking steps to make sure this progress. Water Week is a celebration of those efforts with a wholesome dose of straightforward motion steps mixed with experiences and excursions that present how complete this motion is,” mentioned Fritz Schroeder, President and CEO of Lancaster Conservancy.

The theme of this 12 months’s Water Week is Rewilding for Clear Water. Rewilding is all about conserving, restoring, increasing, and connecting pure areas to assist shield our waterways, wildlife, and neighborhood. Changing garden with native bushes, shrubs, and flowers and replanting forested buffers alongside streams at farms or company campuses are examples of rewilding that will probably be celebrated throughout Lancaster Water Week.

Water Week individuals can take pleasure in a motorcycle tour of the Metropolis of Lancaster’s rain gardens, bike lanes, and tree cover – demonstrations of rewilding in city areas. The Metropolis of Lancaster may also be internet hosting excursions of the wetland restoration challenge at Lengthy’s Park.

“Our waterways are important to life in Lancaster. What we do at residence and on our streets impacts our rivers and streams. The Conestoga and Susquehanna rivers provide our ingesting water – it doesn’t get extra important than that,” mentioned Lancaster Mayor Danene Sorace. “The Metropolis of Lancaster is main the best way in managing stormwater, constructing inexperienced infrastructure, and embracing our connection to the Conestoga. We’re thrilled to participate in Water Week as soon as once more.”

Native bushes and crops absorb and filter stormwater runoff – defending the standard of our streams and rivers whereas offering meals and shelter for wildlife. That’s the reason all through Water Week, the Lancaster Conservancy, together with the Keystone 10 Million Bushes Partnership, will probably be making a gift of free native bushes, shrubs, and wildflower seeds to assist everybody in our neighborhood get entangled in Rewilding for Clear Water! Bushes, shrubs, and wildflower seeds will probably be accessible all through the week at Penn Sq. in Lancaster metropolis in addition to at occasions such because the Lengthy’s Park Summer time Music Sequence whereas provides final.

The Lancaster Conservancy is grateful for its Water Week sponsors, together with the presenting sponsor Excessive Basis, for supporting Lancaster Water Week and efforts to take care of our waterways and our neighborhood.

“Lancaster Conservancy’s Water Week is our collective name to motion, highlighting the very important position water performs in our lives and ecosystems,” mentioned Excessive Basis Govt Director Robin Stauffer. “I encourage you to attend an occasion throughout Water Week to be taught extra about what it means to take care of our waterways, wildlife, and neighborhood. Rewilding efforts, similar to planting native bushes, shrubs, and wildflowers, play a major position in sustaining clear water by enhancing pure filtration processes and selling biodiversity. Collectively, we are able to make a long-lasting impression on the sustainability of our water sources for future generations.”

Lancaster Water Week 2024 sponsors embody: Excessive Basis, The Campbell Basis, Metropolis of Lancaster, Chesapeake Bay Basis and the Keystone 10 Million Bushes Partnership, Nimblist, Brookfield Renewable, Lancaster County Neighborhood Foundatoon, Eurofins, Flyway Excavating, Fulton Financial institution, Commonwealth Monetary Associates, LCSWMA, Stroud Water Analysis Heart, Sickman’s Mill, Landis Properties, Jacobs, Octoraro Native Plant Nursery, LandStudies, Inframark, and Lancaster County Conservation District.

Be taught extra about Lancaster Water Week and register for over 60 occasions at lancasterwaterweek.org.

To be taught extra or schedule an interview about Water Week, please contact:
Avery Van Eten
Lancaster Conservancy Advertising and marketing & Communications Supervisor
[email protected]
717-392-7891 x232