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SWATARA WATERSHED ASSOCIATION

Lebanon, PA USA

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U-Tow Canoes Available, Seasonal Primitive Camping May-October

Welcome! Click on the links below to learn more about our watershed and our organization. 

Party All Year Long! Join Lebanon County for their 200th Anniversary Celebration

Swatara Creek - 25th Anniversary Calendar.pdf  This calendar marries conservation, recreation, and cultural activities in the Swatara Watershed.

bulletSwatara Watershed Park: 1929 Black's Bridge Road, Annville PA:

 U-Tow Canoes Available, Seasonal Primitive Camping,

Fishing, hiking, picnicking, visit http://www.mbcomp.com/swatara/redirect/watertrail/canoe_rent.htm         

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Float Your Boat on the Swatara! 

   Swatara Sojourn information    

Projects/Swatara Water Trail.pdf (map)

25th Annual Swatara Float & Clean-up Trip 

May 4-5, 2013  

                    Visit the Swatara Store with gear sporting the official 25th Anniversary logo.   www.mlspe.com/swatarawatershed
       

Registration  canoe/2013 Sojourn Registration.pdf Sponsor Opportunity  canoe/2013 Sponsor Request Upper Swatara.pdf  Thinking about a float today?  Check Water Depth Swatara River PageGuidelines:  If Harper’s gauge is above 2.25’, water is too high to launch; if below .3’, water is too low to launchSwatara Water Trail Extension Map  

The Devil Ducks are coming.  If you find one of these ducks on the Sojourn, bring it to the end, and tell us where you found it.  After nine months, in January 2013, Mike Schroeder found 7.  We're down to 4 Red Devil Ducks that are still on the loose.

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USGS Guages (Pine Grove, Inwood, Harper's Tavern, Hershey) provide additional data on the Swatara Creek.  http://www.erh.noaa.gov/marfc/  

 
bulletEnvisioning an Environmental Legacy--Oral History Project 

Give the gift of water with a Swatara Watershed membership, which also gets you an EELS book for giving.

SWA held "A Conversation on Marcellus" on May 26, 2011 from 6:30-8:30PM at Northern Lebanon High School.  See the PowerPoint presentations and listen to speakers from Bradford and Chester Counties tell about their experience with the industry.  Local Attorney Tom Harlan also shares his experience with leases and rights-of-way.  Tenaska

EELS Book signing Pictures: Lebanon Daily News articles

EELS, the Book in pdf file (55MB.  May take 1.5 hours to download)

Sunday, December 5, 2004, 2-5PM, Twin Grove Park.

   Jonestown Parade                 Bordner Cabin 
 

About the Swatara Watershed

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Watershed Description

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Virtual Driving Tour

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Maps of the Watershed

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Swatara State Park (position papers: Bordner Cabin and Old State Road

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Watershed Links (more than 200 links to Recreational opportunities, Schools, local government, and MORE!)

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Tourist Destinations (New Feature)

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Contact Information/Press Room

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Flooding

 

About SWA

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Our History and Mission

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Officers and Board Members

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Legacy Giving

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Lifetime Members

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Become a SWA Member

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Support SWA

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SWA Newsletters

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Meeting Minutes

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SWA Awards and Publications

Other Success Stories in the Watershed and Our Success Partners

Rivers Conservation Plan

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What is a RCP?

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About Swatara's RCP

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Get your own copy

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Read the RCP on-line

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View watershed maps

SWA Projects

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Canoe Trips and Sojourn

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Projects

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Intern Opportunities

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In the center of the Swatara Watershed is Lebanon, a safe rural community located immediately east of Hershey, north of Lancaster, west of Reading, and south of Pine Grove, Pennsylvania.  The Swatara Watershed is host to small towns like Mount Gretna; historical landmarks like the Cornwall Iron Furnace and Union Canal Tunnel; State Game Lands for hunting and fishing; the Swatara for canoeing; campgrounds; community parks; golf courses; bed and breakfast inns; thousands of farms, some Amish; Hershey Park, Hershey chocolate factory, Hershey gardens, zoo, the Giant theater; and a National Cemetery at Fort Indiantown Gap.Web hosting is provided by Lebanon Mobile Fone.

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