Friday, June 20, 2008


A program on bats is presented at the Clubhouse.



John Keesey builds and donates a Pergola to the Park.
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Friday, May 30, 2008


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.

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Sunday, April 20, 2008


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.
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008


The Swatara Cooperative Trout Nursery and the PA Fish and Boat Commission combined stocked nearly 5,000 trout in Sweet Arrow Lake.
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Saturday, March 29, 2008


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.
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008


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.
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Saturday, February 02, 2008

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.


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Friday, December 07, 2007


The paving was completed and a new playground installed just in time for the first significant snowfall of 2007.
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Wednesday, December 05, 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.

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Monday, November 12, 2007


Over 100 post were used to create underwater fish habitat. This occured during a scheduled drawdown of the lake.
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Saturday, November 10, 2007


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.
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Wednesday, November 07, 2007


Several rain gardens were added to absorb storm water runoff and return it to the water table.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2007


A new and improved Clubhouse Road begins to take shape.
Note the use of infiltration trenches.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007



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