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RiverBASE is a project of the Environmental Program of Reading Area Community College. Our goal is to provide educators in the Schuylkill River watershed with resources covering science, natural history, history and culture of the river watershed.

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RiverBASE helps users locate river related resources on the Internet. To view categories, go to "Browse Resources" or search via "Keyword Search" or "Advanced Search". Under "Advanced Search" users can request to be notified by email when new resources on topics that they have expressed an interest in become available.

 
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Go to From the Trenches – Tips and Tools for Better Presentations
From the Trenches – Tips and Tools for Better Presentations
This resource provides examples and links to exemplary presentations of monitoring data and tips for good presentations. It is the tenth in a series of factsheet modules which comprise the Guide for G...
http://www.usawaterquality.org/volunteer/pdf/GuideBook/Prese...
Go to News Release - 2009 Growing Greener Grants
News Release - 2009 Growing Greener Grants
Governor Edward G. Rendell today announced the investment of more than $21.5 million in 144 Growing Greener projects to reduce pollution from stormwater runoff and farms, treat acid mine drainage, red...
http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objI...
Go to Hands On Experiments to Test for Acid Mine Drainage
Hands On Experiments to Test for Acid Mine Drainage
New from WV Save Our Streams - Hands-on Experiments to Test for Acid Mine Drainage. This file is available in two formats from the WV Save Our Stream web page, a 2.0 MB PDF and a text-only htm file.
http://www.wvdep.org/Docs/16525_Handson_AMDExperiments.pdf
Go to Natural Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale Formation
Natural Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale Formation
This article describes the Delaware River Basin Commission's concerns about the environmental impact of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale Formation.
http://www.state.nj.us/drbc/naturalgas.htm
Go to Natural Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale Formation
Natural Gas Drilling in the Marcellus Shale Formation
This article describes the Delaware River Basin Commission's concerns about the environmental impact of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale Formation.
http://www.state.nj.us/drbc/naturalgas.htm
Go to Shale Gas: Focus on the Marcellus Shale
Shale Gas: Focus on the Marcellus Shale
This technical review of the environmental impact of gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale can be downloaded as a pdf file. OGAP, the Oil & Gas Accountability Project, was founded in 1999 to work with c...
http://www.earthworksaction.org/pubs/OGAPMarcellusShaleRepor...

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