Freshwater Academy is a week-long camp that gives high school students the opportunity for hands-on experience and fieldwork in Northwestern Pennsylvania's waterways. Students spend their days studying biology and freshwater ecology at a level they can't achieve in the classroom. They will get wet, they will get dirty, and they will love it!
Monday, July 7, 2014
The Dam Visit
Today we visited the Woodcock Dam. This dam was built to stop flooding from Woodcock Creek. It was completed in 1973. The gates are controlled by The US Army Corps of Engineers in Pittsburgh. It is about a mile long. We are doing a research project to test the chemical and biological health of Woodcock Creek upstream and downstream of the dam.

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