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This is a collaborative project between the Department of Landscape Architecture at Penn State and the Science Department of the State College High School. The project looks at wetlands as means of treating stormwater and how stormwater might affect those wetlands

Westerly Parkway 2016 (5)

Westerly Parkway May 2016

Walnut Springs

During heavy rains. Water level recorder in the background.

Westerly Parkway 2016 (5)

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Project

This project began in the fall of 2015 and the first full yer of data was the spring of 2016.

Students will be assessing water quality, soils, and plant communities over several years to build a long-term research proect assessing wetlands and stormwater

Students will be studying three wetlands: the Westerly Parkway Wetland Education Center, the Walnt Springs stormwater wetland, and Millbrook Marsh.