HomeMy WebLinkAboutHartman Reserve Nature Center-7/11/2016Please return this copy to:
City Clerk & Finance Dept.
715 Mulberry St.
Waterloo, IA 50703
Contracted Education Proposal June 22, 2016
Between Hartman Reserve Nature Center and Cities of Cedar Falls, Elk Run
Heights, Evansdale, Hudson, Raymond and Waterloo
Hartman Reserve Nature Center (HRNC) will partner with the Cities of Cedar Falls, Elk Run Heights,
Evansdale, Hudson, and Waterloo to organize and conduct stormwater education sessions. This effort
will occur under the direction of city staff and HRNC. Education sessions will occur throughout FY2017
(Julyl-June 30) and consist of primarily school groups.
OVERVIEW
• Hartman Reserve will provide a wide range of hands-on water quality and stormwater themed
programs to classrooms and visitors to the Center who come for school trips, public and private
programs and summer camps.
• This program will allow the participating municipalities to remain in compliance with their DNR
issued NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) General Permit #2, which
contains a Public Education and Outreach program requirement.
• Because the surrounding municipalities are working together this becomes a cost effective way
to meet the federal requirements.
• Programs will include: a pond study, which involves finding and identifying macro invertebrates
to assess water quality; a stream table lesson, which demonstrates the watershed concept and
provides a good lesson on the forces of erosion; a live animal room, where children get to meet
the animals that depend on clean water and learn about how water quality effects them; a
fishing and canoe/kayaking, which can provide a lifelong appreciation for recreational activities
that are directly impacted by water quality. These activities, and more, are available to teachers
as they plan field trips.
• This new initiative will have a two -fold process. The first will build water quality lessons into
existing programs and field trip curriculum and the second will develop additional educational
programs that also focus on stormwater and water quality.
PROJECT COORDINATION
Hartman Reserve will handle program planning, set-up, equipment usage, equipment maintenance and
storage, billing and registration, and training. Reports will be submitted as requested.
HRNC, Ed Gruenwald
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of Waterloo
City of Cedar Falls
City of Evansdale
City of Hudson
City of Raymond
City of Elk Run