{"id":15005,"date":"2017-02-10T15:40:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T15:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=15005"},"modified":"2017-02-14T14:38:31","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T14:38:31","slug":"northampton-county-conservation-district-teaches-the-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=15005","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County Conservation District Teaches the Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15006\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NorthamptonEducators.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15006\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15006\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NorthamptonEducators.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15006\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teachers were able to construct and take home<br \/>\r\n a rain barrel with the help of local Penn State<br \/>\r\n Extension- Master Watershed Stewards. Photo provided by NCCD.<\/p><\/div>\r\n<p>Northampton County Conservation District completed their \u201cSchoolyard and Backyard Conservation\u201d Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-grant Project. Through the project, a workshop was held for educators on how to improve water quality and reduce nonpoint source pollution in their homes and schools. The district offered 7 Act 48 continuing education hours to the teachers in attendance.<\/p>\r\n<table style=\"width: 825px;\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 94px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/epa_logo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10296\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/epa_logo-2.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 75px) 100vw, 75px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 638px;\"><em>Financial and other support for the NPS Mini-grant Program is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<\/em><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/NorthamptonTeacherWkspPhotos.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to see photos from the workshop.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Northampton County Conservation District completed their \u201cSchoolyard and Backyard Conservation\u201d Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-grant Project. Through the project, a workshop was held for educators on how to improve water quality and reduce nonpoint source pollution in their homes and schools. The district offered 7 Act 48 continuing education hours to the teachers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-mini-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}