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That’s the question posed to Tallapoosa County Middle School Students. Over the past 3 weeks we have hosted Water Quality Field Days here at camp. 5th and 6th grade students from Edward Bell, Reeltown, Horseshoe Bend, and Councill Middle Schools visited camp to participate in programs such as Living Streams, Water Testing, and visiting the Dunn Center to learn more about Lake Martin and how it was formed. All programs were geared toward increasing water quality knowledge in Tallapoosa County’s young people and instilling a desire to help protect our watersheds and waterways in the future. |
| These camps were sponsored by the Tallapoosa County Clean Water Partnership and volunteers from Water Watch, Master Gardeners, Alabama Cooperative Extension, and Russell Lands as well as employees from Camp ASCCA helped to provide quality programs for the students.
The Living Streams program got the kids out in the woods to check out a 1st order stream. The students got to get in the stream and hunt down little macroinvertebrates in hopes to prove the stream a level 1. During all the fun in the streams the students learned about watersheds and how the things we do affects the watershed. During Water Testing the students learned why we test the lake and how. They took the water’s temperature, found water clarity, and found the pH. They learned about each one of these experiments and why each element is important to the overall body of water’s health. |
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Visiting the Oscar C. Dunn Rotary Environmental Center is always exciting and fun for the kids with all of it’s exhibits and hands-on displays. But when the kids visited on this field trip, the topics all centered around Lake Martin and the Tallapoosa River Watershed. The students learned where the Tallapoosa River originates and where it goes. They had tons of fun on the boardwalks that skirt the lake and showoff some of camps fantastic natural water frontage.
The field trip concluded with the students each receving a bag filled with rain gages, tolet tummies, shower timers and lots of other great stuff to help them be more water conscious when they returned home. |
Located in Alabama on Lake Martin, Camp ASCCA offers campers a wide variety of traditional recreational and educational activities with a unique design for accessibility.
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