The Spring House
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Do you know your watershed address? At Boxerwood, we
sure know ours:
Boxerwood
Spring
Woods
Creek
Maury
River
James
River
Chesapeake
Bay
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The Spring House
(watch out for poison ivy on the way in!)
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| What this means is that our water starts right here at the
spring house (and at our
second spring),
travels through Boxerwood and out to Woods Creek, which then flows into the
Maury River. After that, the Maury flows into the James River and the
James flows into the Bay, thus making us a part of the Chesapeake Bay
Watershed. Knowing your watershed address is extremely important so that
you are aware of the fact that anything that affects your water also affects
every single living and nonliving thing downstream of you -- all the way from
Rockbridge County clear across Virginia to the Bay! Would you like it if
fishermen from the Bay came up and dumped trash, fertilizer, oil, chemical or
other pollutants into your water supply? Probably not. We all need
to be sure that we aren't putting any of these things into our creeks &
rivers and thus sending them to the Bay. Watershed education is an
important part of our curriculum for schoolchildren at Boxerwood, and we hope
that you will realize its importance and work hard to keep Rockbridge County's
water clean too, for us and for everyone else downstream! |
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Outside the spring
house: the mailbox holds a spring house activity and the sculpture is made of
buoys, bones & other articles brought back from field trips to the
Bay. Why? Because it reminds us where this water is going, of
course!
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Inside the spring house: look down inside the hole and you can
see the water below. In the activity mailbox, you'll find a cup to
dip into the water and feel its temperature -- how do you think it will
feel?
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As you leave the spring house, you might turn right and follow the path
toward the
second
spring and the wetlands. Should you feel like lounging
for awhile, inviting benches like this one have been placed along the path
for just that purpose. Can you spot the lounge lizard on this
bench? Hint: run your mouse slowly over the picture. |
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