Harwich Water Department News & Events

HARWICH AND CHATHAM STUDENTS AND TEACHERS PREPARE TO GET WET

The Harwich Water Department and the Cape Cod Groundwater Guardian Team are sponsoring an all day water festival to be held Friday, June 7, 2002, at the Harwich Community Center.

This water festival will introduce approximately 300 fourth and fifth grade students and teachers from Harwich and Chatham to the joys of water. Barnstable County provides funding for this project.

The Harwich Water Festival follows other similar and highly successful events held in other Cape schools over the past few years. This year's festival will incorporate 24 different hands-on activities that focus on water, including "Raindrop Journey", "Edible Aquifers", "Enviroscapes", "Flush the Kids", "Water Cycle Bracelets", "Bubble People", and more. Other favorites are "Water Cycle Terrarium", in which students will build self-watering ecosystems, and "Where Rivers Meet the Sea", in which students will learn about the interface between fresh and salt water. More than 40 professionals from environmental agencies on Cape Cod and Massachusetts, including the AmeriCorps-Cape Cod team, have volunteered to help put on this festival.

Members of the press are welcomed and encouraged to attend. Contact Gabrielle Belfit at Cape Cod Commission (508) 362-3828 or Deborah Fuller at Harwich Water Department (508) 432-0304 for more information.