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Lehigh County Conservation District grant funds rain garden, classroom watershed work at Whitehall High
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Lehigh County Conservation District and Whitehall High School received a $5,000 DEP grant to support hands-on watershed education. Students helped build and maintain a rain garden, raised monarch butterflies and tested stream health in Copley Creek.
The Lehigh County Conservation District and Whitehall High School received $5,000 in grant funding to support hands-on watershed and stormwater management education this school year, a conservation district representative told the Whitehall-Coplay School District board on April 28.
The grant supported a classroom and outdoor program that converted a previously mowed courtyard into a rain garden planted with native species; students observed stormwater issues, made seed balls and released monarch caterpillars raised in class. Lehigh County Conservation District environmental-education coordinator Laura Hopek said the activities were designed to give students an applied understanding of urban watershed concepts and the effects of common pollutants.
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