Free Field Trips

Book your FREE FIELD TRIP TODAY!

If you are interested in having your class attend
Chino Creek Wetlands Park for a free field trip please contact
Serina Stephens at sstephens@ieua.org for more details and scheduling.

Chino Creek Wetlands Park field trips feature tours of the wetlands, water education activities, and so much more! We also offer a Water Treatment Plant Tour
for grades 5 and up.
For additional transportation funding and additional field trip information click here:  Chino Creek Wetlands Field Trip

  

Eagle Scout project at the Chino Creek Park

On Saturday, August 11, 2012 the Chino Creek Wetlands and Educational Park hosted an Eagle Scout project organized by Jonathan Hagman. The goal of the project was to create a small food forest within the Park near the Garden in Every School demonstration garden. This area of the park was originally a grassland area, but unfortunately, due to all the rabbits it has been diffculit to keep the grass alive. Some of the grasses like the native Deer Grass and the Red Pennisetum don't get eaten by the rabbits, so it was decided to leave those there to grow with the food forest.

A total of 14 volunteers came out to support Jonathan by planting numerous fruit trees and installing drip irrigation at the root zones of each of the plants. Jonathan learned how to install drip irrigation before the project was organized so that he could teach his volunteers how to properly install drip irrigation.

Jonathan with his father Curt Hagman, (assemblyman for the 60th assembly district).

Volunteers planting trees

Everyone hard at work.

Volunteers installing drip irrigation



Volunteers Fixing the last drip emitter.



 Thank you Jonathan for your leadership and choosing IEUA to help with your Eagle Scout project!

World Water Day at the Park

At the Chino Creek Park, World Water Day was a huge success thanks to SAWA!!            

SAWA facilitated two World Water Day events at the park on March 21, 2012 & March 23, 2012. A total of 170 girls from Girl Scouts of the U.S.A participated in the event to earn their water badge. The event featured hands-on activities; Water Experiments, “Made of Water” activity, Water Pledge, Snake Encounter and a Park Scavenger Hunt.

Thank you to all the Girl Scout Troops that participated in World Water Day at the Chino Creek Wetlands and Educational Park!

World Water Day has been observed on 22 March since 1993 when the United Nations General Assembly declared 22 March as World Day for Water.

There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 litres of water every day, however most of the water we ‘drink’ is embedded in the food we eat: producing 1 kilo of beef for example consumes 15,000 litres of water while 1 kilo of wheat ’drinks up’ 1,500 litres.

For more infromation on World Water Day: http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/

World Water Day 2012!!

What are you doing for World Water Day 2012?

Here at the Chino Creek Park SAWA will be hosting the second annual World Water Day event with the Girls Scouts of the U.S.A. for two days; March 21 & March 23!!

Last year SAWA coordinated the first annual event with 153 girls from Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. This year we are excited to host the event again at the Chino Creek Park. Thanks to SAWA and all their efforts there has been such a hudge response towards this event that the March 21 date complety booked.

For more information for March 23rd  please check on SAWA's Education website http://sawaedu.org/?q=WWD2012

So if you are interested in participating please contact SAWA; Annie Yennie at annie@sawaedu.org or Carrie Raleigh at carrie@sawaedu.org.