Third Annual Elmore County Water Festival Coming to the Alabama Nature Center
 
The Alabama Nature Center in collaboration with the Elmore County School System will hold the Elmore County Water Festival at the Alabama Nature Center in Millbrook. This three-day event, beginning August 23rd has targeted 1000 sixth grade public school students from Elmore County.
 
The program is specifically designed to address an Alabama Course of Study Objective for science; teaching them about the water cycle and the importance and value of clean water and personal responsibility for our water resources in an educational, fun and engaging atmosphere.
 
Students will be exposed to water through a wide variety of activities such as:

• Water Features Hike – Students will see firsthand what happens to precipitation when it reaches the earth’s surface by tracing water’s journey from its source as a natural spring to its destination in a stream. 
• Aquatic Life Roundup – Students will explore the myriad of life that is supported by a pond by using nets to sample for animals that live there. Students will discover how animals adapt to aquatic life and how their survival is related to water quality.
• Aquatic Animal Presentation – Students will have the opportunity to meet several of the ANC’s education animals, including a midland waters snake, turtles, salamanders and frogs.
• Stream Walk – A hike in Still Creek will spark discussion about how humans contribute to the overall health of our waterways, including man’s effects on water quality, erosion and pollution.  Students will learn that our drinking water is the result of a treatment/filtering process provided by our local water systems.

Many thanks to our funding partners: Alabama Power Company, Goodwyn, Mills & Cawood, Inc., The Water Works and Sewer Board of the City of Wetumpka, Elmore Water and Sewer Authority, Central Elmore Water and Sewer Authority, Alabama Clean Water Partnership (Alabama River Basin), Prattville-Millbrook Sunrise Rotary Club, Lake Jordan Homeowners & Boat Owners Association (HOBO), International Paper – Prattville & Pine Hill Facilities and Alabama Department of Environmental Management.