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Nobody will notice if I dump my trash 1799 1815 The Fairmount Water into the RIVER! 1900s The pollution in The Philadelphia Works was built, located right the Delaware and Schuylkill Water Department on the Schuylkill River. This Rivers got so bad that the began. site was chosen because it Philadelphia Water Depart- was the highest point close to ment built a system of water Hear Ye! treatment plants. At that time, Hear Ye! 1801 The Water Department Philadelphia on the Schuylkill. Philadelphia completed the City’s first water It used the river’s flowing it was the largest water filtration had one of the system, consisting of two pump- power to turn giant water YUCK! system in the world! Beginning first water ing stations: one located on the wheels which powered the in 1909, the treatment plants systems in the pumps. cleaned all of the river water USA! Schuylkill River at Chestnut St.; the second (above) located in before we used it. Centre Square, exactly where City Hall stands today. Untreated What’s the 1880s Although difference water was pumped from the Fairmount Park had been between the The land is Schuylkill to the dome at the top created upstream of the land and DIRTY of the Centre Square station. the river? and the Water Works to protect the river is The water then flowed by gravity City’s water supply, industry TIDE-Y. to the homes and businesses of and cities farther upstream on the City, today called “Old City.” the Schuylkill were dumping chemicals and waste into the river which flowed down Are the into the Philadelphia water FISH supply…people and fish I get a CHARGE biting? out of our new They were getting sick and dying! water system! sure are! page 1 We need your help to protect elphia our watersheds in the 21st Century hilad and beyond! Use in P 1957 1984 TODAY

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YUCK! This water We are glad we can SWIM tastes 1957 Primary Treatment in the DELAWARE RIVER again! worse than began on all Philadelphia LIMA BEANS! wastewater. That means that we cleaned the water that we TODAY The FAIRMOUNT WATER WORKS used before we put it back into INTERPRETIVE CENTER is open. It is an the rivers. This got rid of exciting, watershed education center about half of the harmful complete with interactive exhibits, a pollutants in the wastewater. classroom, theater, and more! Education is the key to keeping our drinking water Whatcha clean in the future! Doing? I’m cleaning Wow! my water before I never knew that learning about water could I pour it back So am I ! 1900–1950s into the river. be so much fun! eck the ticker Sadly, because we now had ? Ch to ing see do w ls h a o’ a system for cleaning the m s Secondary Treatment i th 1984 n r a Huh? r iv e i v n water before we used it, we i g of wastewater began. This gets r a e n it r d

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page 2 Wise Water Use is Important!

Yo Kids! We use water everyday, in so many ways! When we pollute the land we pollute our water. Rain washes the trash and pollutants on the ground into our local streams or into storm drains, which lead to our drinking water supply! Dive into this game and learn about the many uses of water, both good and bad, and discover why water is so important!

Go to a car wash Go that recycles water. swimming at a community pool. MOVE AHEAD START MOVE AHEAD 1 SPACE 1 SPACE HERE

Drink a glass Wash your of tap water! Let the faucet hands! Water your lawn GO AGAIN drip for days. MOVE AHEAD excessively. GO BACK 3 SPACES GO BACK 1 SPACE 1 SPACE

Take a really long shower. DIRECTIONS: LOSE A TURN 1. Find an eraser, paper clip, stick of gum or other game piece and place on “START HERE.” Your body 2. Flip a coin when it’s your turn: Turn off the faucett while you needs 8 glasses HEADS, move 1 space ahead brush your teeth. of water TAILS, move 2 spaces ahead MOVE AHEAD everyday! 1 SPACE 3. The first one to “FINISH” wins. move 1 HAVE FUN! move 2 page 3 Pour paint thinner down the drain. Water the A rainy day waters our environment. GO BACK house plants. 3 SPACES Fertilize MOVE AHEAD GO AGAIN! your lawn 1 SPACE right before it rains. GO BACK What do you call a fish 2 SPACES with a couple of knees? A two-knee fish! Throw litter into the street. GO BACK Clean up trash TO START! Pour oil into a storm drain. on the sidewalk. GO BACK GO AGAIN 3 SPACES SHORTCUT IF YOU LAND ON THIS SPACE! Take public transportation Plant a Tree. Pick up after to the Fairmount Water Works GO AGAIN! your dog. Interpretive Center and learn MOVE AHEAD all about water! 3 SPACES Drink a glass of tap water! GO AGAIN Open up a fire hydrant Can You List Other in the summer. Ways We Use Water? Help with GO BACK the laundry. TO START! MOVE AHEAD 1 SPACE Use toxic substances, such as drain cleaner or moth balls. FINISH GO BACK 2 SPACES

page 4 The Natural Water Cycle

PRECIPITATION ater Is Water vapor in clouds cools W Con sta and forms water particles, RECYC nt which fall to the ground as LED ly snow or rain.

SURFACE RUNOFF Rainfall that can’t sink into the ground by infiltration flows over the ground into streams. TRANSPIRATION Plants and trees absorb water INFILTRATION from the soil through their EVAPORATION Some rainfall sinks into the roots and “breathe” it back into Water on the surface of the ground and eventually the air as water vapor. ground or in lakes and rivers “percolates” down to is warmed by the sun, which the groundwater. creates water vapor, which rises into the air and forms clouds.

GROUNDWATER Water is stored in the gaps of porous rock, gravel, or sand and slowly flows into streams.

CLEAN WATER is a limited RESOURCE! The SAME water that the dinosaurs drank...is the SAME water that we drink today. Water is constantly recycled and reused over and over again!

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page 5 Philadelphia’s Water Use Cycle

Follow me through an A-MAZE-ING journey WATER STORAGE TANK and trace the route of your drinking water... 2 WATER TREATMENT PLANT Stored in a reservoir or water tower, drinking water is forced by gravity into a water main (large pipe) that START leads to your home. WATER MAIN 1 Water is pumped to a drinking water RIVER treatment plant, where it is cleaned for drinking. Bathroom All of Philadelphia’s drinking YOUR HOME water comes from either the Delaware or Schuylkill River! GARDEN COMPOST Kitchen Incoming water is kept SEPARATE from outgoing water in your home.

END WATER POLLUTION CONTROL PLANT 3 4 Wastewater is treated and the We pollute water we use clean water is returned to the river. in our homes. The dirty Some of the waste removed from the water goes directly into water is composted and used as fertilizer. the sewer.

page 6 SEWER Each WATERSHED on The Delaware Estuary the next page is a different color. See if you can locate the watershed that YOU live in!

Morrisville Trenton Q. What exactly is the DELAWARE ESTUARY? Schuy lkil Norristown A. The Delaware Estuary includes l parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, stretching approximately PA Philadelphia 133 miles from the falls of the Camden Delaware River near Trenton, NJ r ive to the mouth of the Delaware Bay R e between Cape May, NJ and r Wilmington a Cape Henlopen, DE. w a l e Estuaries are bodies of water where D NJ salt water from the ocean mixes with fresh water flowing off the land. They are very important feeding grounds, habitats (homes), and nurseries Q. What’s a WATERSHED? for fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and tons of other creatures. Delaware Bay ATLANTIC A. The WATERSHED of a stream is all of The wetlands in the Estuary clean out OCEAN the land that sheds water into that stream many pollutants from the water and Dover when it rains. When rain falls on land, help protect us from floods. it runs off to the nearest stream Cape May that is downhill.

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AV Broad Street in South Philly, My Watershed Address is: E. I-95 Center City, or North Philly, or in Port Richmond or Kensington, you live in one of the WARE DELAWARE RIVER UNDERGROUND ELA RI D VER page 8 TRIBUTARIES’ WATERSHEDS Did you know that there are lots of species that share the watershed with us? Living Species and Habitat of the Delaware Estuary In the list below are some fish that swim in our rivers, birds that fly in our air, and animals that inhabit our land. The rivers, air, parkland, city and residential areas near Philadelphia are the habitats that these creatures inhabit. Can you color in all of these birds, fish and animals hidden in the picture?

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Opossum Red Fox Robin Shad White-tailed Deer page 10 How Can You and Your Family Protect Our Water? TIP Keep Protecting our water supply isn’t just an adult thing. It’s up to each and every one of us! Storm drains in the 1 litter off the ground. T Yo Kids! wrappers, fast food containers, andhis includes other candy street (also called sewer inlets) are for water only. Philadelphia’s rain and melting snow pick up all kinds of pollutants as Put trash in trash cans and waste. they wash over our sidewalks, streets, parking lots, and yards. All of this dirty water flows into storm drains, many of which it doesn’t get clean-up street litter so washed or blown into the storm drains. empty into local creeks and the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers. You can help make our waterways safer for drinking, fishing, What has 4 wheels and boating by keeping pollution out of Philadelphia’s storm drains. A Trash Truck! and flies? TIP TIP your garden, and cut Ask your parents to service the car regularly to expand 2 Help your parents . Gardens generally prevent oils and other fluids from leaking onto the 3 lawn down on the size of your . Use native plants, pavement and being washed down the storm drains. soak up more rainfall than lawns People should always recycle used motor oil and , and plant densely to decrease the need for mulch , and discourage weeds. antifreeze. Cars should be moved for street water, reduce erosion sweepings to allow for the removal of dirt and Finding half debris before it washes down the storm drains. a worm!

What's worse than When it turns finding a worm When is a car into a driveway. in your tomato? not a car? TIP protect our drinking water by 4 You can help dog. Place dog wastedown in cleaning up aftertrash your can , not in the streetdisease- or the toilet or a the storm drain. Dog waste introduces causing bacteria into our water supply. TIP Arf! 6 Help your parents compost parents to clippings. Next year you will haveleaves rich and grass TIP chokes weeds, so ask your grow! Taller grass that can be used to enhance your garden compost Let your grass water your lawn thoroughly but infrequently Do you know what 5 if you do fertilize you don’t compost, carefully bag your leavessoil and. If set the mower height at 3 inches, natural organic fertilizer you get when youwith root systems, use fertilizers), and avoid grass clippings cross a Giraffe ? to encourage deep chemical . Leaves and grass clippings placed for (which will release nutrients more slowly than in the street unbagged will German Shepherd A watchdog heavy rain. clog storm drains. the fifth floor. applying fertilizer before Did you hear the joke Yeah, but it stinks Why did the guy about the compost pile? ! run a lawnmower through his garden?

Because he wanted to make a chopped salad page 11 in a hurry. Fishin’ for Words

T I P S F L O W S Z A S E P A B S C D B E F G H I F J K L M N S T O R M D R A I N S O P M Q E R A S T E U V S W N S T R E E T X O Y W Z T A B L C D H O E C S F G D U H T I E J I K L A M N I O P H E L Q O R H L R S O T R U N V W W X S N Y Z U V M A B C G D E E F R G I H G I J A O K G L M Y A N O P Join the Team and M I Q R N O I T U L L O P N S K E E R C L A C O L E S T U A N T I F R E E Z E C R I V L W X Y E E Z A B C D K L Keep our Storm Drains Clean! E F G D E B R I S C H C Y E L I E J K L M N G N I K N I R D WHO: We are looking for team leaders who are O W A S T E S T L P L C D C S T N A T U L L O P Q R L S T interested in organizing volunteers to mark storm C E U I E U V L S I D E W A L K S L W L X drains across the City of E A Y P R C Z T O A B C A D E F G H A I F L O Philadelphia and the T N J P K E O M N G W A T E R W A Y S W O H R K N surrounding suburbs. O U P I Q O R S T N E V E R P T U V P A N W D G H S M Teams can be made up of X R P Y N R Z A B C D E F R C H E M I C A L S T S C F S J O kids or adults. P Q P R S G H E A V Y R A I N T U X V W X Y R A Z A B C D D E I W G T H E T A X B C S D B S T E F G E S S D I U L F I J E K L M N O R P Q H L WHAT: These teams of S O T R U X V W C O M P O S T X Y Z A B C D L I T T E R E N F G H A I J C K volunteers will glue down medallions M R N A O P P Q R S F E R T I L I Z E R S U T U V W X Y Z T A Y B C L D on the street in front of storm drains G G S H A W A T E R S U P P L Y I L J S K L M N O P Q R S S T U U V across the region with a “No Dumping, W X Y H Z N A A B C D E F F G H I J S E R V I C E R T S I M J K L Drains to the River” message. All D E F C M D L M N O P D I S E A S E C A U S I N G T G H I S J supplies will be provided at no cost. See if you can find theG H U A D I D O W N E V X W X Y N A T U R A L C A R S M I Y Z N P A V E M E N T Z A C B C D E F G N E A O WHY: To educate people about red highlighted words H I J L N E D R A G L K L N L M N P R Q stormwater runoff pollution from these 6 tips, O S P Q R S T D U V X W X Y G S T prevention in order to help Z A E B C D G E F U V improve water quality in the either forward, Delaware Estuary. G H H I J K L M backwards, up, N S O P Q R S FOR MORE INFORMATION down, or diagonally. A T U V W PLEASE CALL 1-800-445-4935 W X Y Z A B C

page 12 Clean Water Crossword

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9 National Basketball 1. Pigeons, hawks, and eagles 10 Association 3. Birthday to you! Clean Water 13 11 15. North, south, west or 14 12 4. Frozen water Begins and Ends 17. City Hall is at the intersection 5. DaVinci or 15 of Street and with You! 16 DiCaprio 17 Market Street in Phila. 6. Penn’s Landing is on this 20 21 18 19. When you’re hungry, river 19 22 you 7. A tube in your house that 24 23 20. Water vapor in the sky 25 water flows through forms a 10. Letters that stand for 28 26 27 31 29 22. Delaware or Schuylkill peanut butter 32 30 24. Red means stop, 12. What we drink and bathe in 35 33 green means 16. King , ancient Egyptian 38 34 36 25. I’ve got my on you mummy 39 37 41 26. In math you can 17. Another word for insect 40 42 or subtract 18. Letters that stand for 29. Actor, Hanks or “Do It Yourself” Cruise 21. An arm and a 32. Sound you make when 23. Animal Doctor you laugh 27. Used water goes down the ACROSS 34. Comedian, Sandler 28. Elected person in charge 35. The Fairmount Water 2. City of Brotherly Love of the city Works is on this river 8. Playing card 30. Places where people go 38. Glasses can help you Jack, Queen, King, shopping better 9. More than one person, 31. Atlantic or Pacific many 39. Slimy gunk 32. Really big 11. Letters that stand for 40. When you are by yourself 33. Letters that stand for okay Philadelphia Water 41. Fairmount 35. Wastewater goes into Department where the Water Dept. the 13. Not down but used to pump water to 36. Not high, but the city 37. Large body of fresh water 42. What you write with page 13 Check Out these Exciting Websites from Our Watershed Partners: Academy of Natural Sciences Delaware Valley Earth Force Pennsylvania Horticultural Society/ Schuylkill Action Network www.urbanrivers.org www.earthforce.org/delval Philadelphia Green www.SchuylkillWaters.org

www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org Awbury Arboretum Fairmount Park Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education www.awbury.org www.phila.gov/fairpark Pennsylvania Department of www.schuylkillcenter.org

Environmental Protection Cobbs Creek Community Fairmount Park NLREEP Schuylkill River National and State Heritage Area www.dep.state.pa.us Environmental Education Center www.nlreep.org www.schuylkillriver.org

www.cobbscreekcenter.org Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Friends of Pennypack Park Stroud Water Research Center www.state.pa.us/fish Darby Creek Valley Association www.balford.com/fopp www.stroudcenter.org

www.dcva.org Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy Friends of Poquessing Watershed Thank You Delaware Bay www.perkiomenwatershed.org Delaware Riverkeeper Network www.friendsofpoquessing.org www.tydb.org

www.delawareriverkeeper.org Philadelphia Parks Alliance Friends of the Wissahickon United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water www.philaparks.org Delaware River Basin Commission www.fow.org www.epa.gov/ow www.state.nj.us/drbc/edweb/edweb.htm RiverBASE T I P S www.Riverbase.org F L O W S Z A S E P A B S C D B E F G H I F J K L M N S T O R M D R A I N S O P M Q E R A S T E U V S W N S T R E E T X O Y W Z T A B L C D H O E C S F G D U H T I E J I K L A M N I O P H E L Q O R H L R S O T R U N V W W X S N Y Z U V M A B C G D E E F R G I H G I J A O K G L M Y A N O P Solution to M I Q R N O I T U L L O P N S K E E R C L A C O L E S T U A N T I F R E E Z E C R I V L W X Y E E Z A B C D K L E F G D E B R I S C H C Y E L I E J K L M N G N I K N I R D Solution to O W A S T E S T L P L C D C S T N A T U L L O P Q R L S T Clean Water Crossword C E U I E U V L S I D E W A L K S L W L X E A Y P R C Z T O A B C A D E F G H A I F L O

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B WATER TREATMENT PLANT Stored in a reservoir or water tower, drinking water is forced by gravity into a Solution to from pages 9 and 10 water main (large pipe) that Living Species and Habitat leads to your home. START WATER MAIN 1 Water is pumped to a drinking water RIVER treatment plant, where it is cleaned for drinking. Bathroom All of Philadelphia’s drinking YOUR HOME water comes from either the Delaware or Schuylkill River! GARDEN COMPOST Kitchen Incoming water is kept SEPARATE from outgoing water in your home.

SEWER HOURS & ADMISSION: The Fairmount Water Works, where waterwheels, turbines and pumps Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00am to 5:00pm once supplied the city with water, now has Sunday: 1:00pm to 5:00pm a new life as an exciting, watershed education Closed on City holidays center, complete with interactive exhibits, Admission is free. a classroom, theater and more! For general information on the Interpretive Center, call 215-685-0723, V or visit our website at isit the r Works Interpretive Cente www.fairmountwaterworks.org Th Fairmount Wate ed Educa r! e Dela Watersh tion Cen The Interpretive Center is ADA Accessible. ware River Basin’s ter DIRECTIONS: SEDGELY DR. N From I-95, take 676 West. Pass the Broad Street exit and stay right for the “Museums” exit. At the

(additional parking) N. 27 ASPEN ST. top of the ramp, turn right onto 22nd Street. Then turn left onto Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Stay E PENNSYLVANIA AVE. right and exit right onto Kelly Drive at the Art Museum. At the 2nd light, Water Works Drive is on W the left. There is limited parking on Water Works Drive, or turn right onto Sedgely for additional Fairmount Park parking. (See map at left.) W S A MEREDITH ST. T E KELLY DRIVE (limited parking)R From the Schuylkill, take I-676/US 30/Central Philadelphia. Take a right onto the “Museums” exit/ W O Benjamin Franklin Parkway. On the ramp, keep left to stay on ramp. Turn left onto 22nd Street, R

K 26THN. ST. S then bear left onto Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Stay right onto Kelly Drive. At the 2nd light, Water D R Schuylkill River IV Works Drive is on the left. There is limited parking on Water Works Drive, or turn right onto Sedgely E 25THN. ST. for additional parking. (See map at left.)

FAIRMOUNT AVE. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION: FAIRMOUNT AVE.PENNSYLVANIA AVE. Contact www.septa.org or call 215-580-7800 for information on the 38 bus. Amtrak: 1-800-USA-RAIL UM DRIVE USE KELLY DRIVE M RT PHLASH: www.gophila.com/phlash/ Fairmount A Dam

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76 215-685-6300 800-445-4935 SCHUYLKILL EXPRESSWAY www.phila.gov/water www.DelawareEstuary.org THE PLAZA www.fairmountwaterworks.org The Partnership for the Delaware Estuary leads collaborative TO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PARKWAY Schuylkill River Eakins www.phillywater.org and creative efforts to protect and enhance the Delaware Estuary and its tributaries for current and future generations. WEST RIVER DRIVE Oval www.phillyrivercast.org Printed on Recycled Paper www.phillyh2o.org © 2009 Designed and illustrated by Frank McShane.

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