The Falls in Spring, the flock of nuisance geese grows.


The Schuylkill Stampede 4-H Club plants new trees the Clubhouse.


The winner of the annual fishing derby is announced.

As the weather warmed, the playground was discovered.
A fly fishing seminar was held, and the new grass started to green up on the beautiful newly renovated park.

The Swatara Cooperative Trout Nursery and the PA Fish and Boat Commission combined stocked nearly 5,000 trout in Sweet Arrow Lake.

Fishermen gathered on both sides of the Lake for the first day of trout season. It was a very cold day the the best place to get a bite was the Clubhouse where the Sweet Arrow lake Conservation Association served breakfast.

The evening before, Peggy Hentz of Red Creek Wildlife Center presented a program on owl rehabilitaion to a standing room only crowd. A release of rehabilitated owls followed.

On March 5th, 2008 a high water event tested the stream improvement work done below the falls. It appears that the work solved the problems.

On February 2nd, 2008, a large crowd gathered to celebrate Groundhog day at the Clubhouse. The featured prognosticator was Grover from the Pine Grove Grundsow Lodge. The event was sponsored by the Sweet Arrow Lake Conservation Association. Music and fellowship followed the ceremony and pot pie lunch.

The paving was completed and a new playground installed just in time for the first significant snowfall of 2007.

In October and November of 2007, the falls were "turned off" to allow re-construction of the streambanks below the falls. The flood of 1973 (hurricane Agnes) began the erosion process and it has continued ever since washing hundreds of tons of soil downstream. The rock lined channel, "root wad" deflectors and other steam improvements assure that the stream will remain within the channel and provide fish habitat as well.

Over 100 post were used to create underwater fish habitat. This occured during a scheduled drawdown of the lake.

The PCC Crew continued it's work on the boardwalk. A jackhammer was the solution to suborn rock that needed to be removed to widen the trail.

Several rain gardens were added to absorb storm water runoff and return it to the water table.

A new and improved Clubhouse Road begins to take shape.
Note the use of infiltration trenches.

The Schuylkill Technology/Schuylkill Builders Association Gazebo was dedicated and the Schuylkill Leadership pavilion was also dedicated on 10/11/07

Conduit for new parking lot lighting was installed, the storage shed was hauled to it's new location, disturbed land was seeded and mulched.
Road drainage made use of the practice called infiltration trenches to absorb water rather than run it off the road into a culvert.