14th Annual Secchi Day and Science Fair is Scheduled for August 17 on Beaver Lake

The annual Secchi Day and Science Fair on Beaver Lake in Northwest Arkansas is a FREE event scheduled for Saturday, August 17, 2019 from 9 am to 1 pm. Festivities will be at Prairie Creek Park on Beaver Lake, five miles east of Rogers, Arkansas on Highway 12.

There’s a Science Education Festival that includes activities for all ages! There will be hands-on science education fun, a firetruck, free kayak rides, snacks, lunch, and lots of fabulous giveaways.

Secchi Day is also a time when volunteer citizen scientists gather water quality information from all over Beaver Lake. Many groups of volunteers collect a water sample and measure secchi depth across the lake all in one day! They use a secchi disk to measure water clarity, or how deep into the water they can still see the secchi disk.

Secchi Day is meant to help inform people about water quality in Beaver Lake, which supplies drinking water to almost half a million people, or 1 in 7 people in Arkansas.

For more information about activities or how to volunteer, visit the Secchi Day website at https://www.bwdh2o.org/education-outreach/secchi-day/.