Fairmount Water Works

Science Saturday: "Cold Case: H2O"
2015-12-05 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Is it a fact that no two snowflakes are the same? How do they form? How many different forms of ice and snow are there? Head to the FWWIC to investigate the properties of ice and snow. Learn about the special shape of snowflakes and about a special type of ice that forms on our local river. We’ll give you some “snow” to take home — just add water!
(Sessions run every 30 minutes.)

Mommies & Minnows, Fathers & Fry: "It Matters!"
2015-12-02 10:30 - 11:30 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Head down to the Fairmount Water Works with your preschoolers (ages 3-5), and learn all about water! Starting August 26, join us Wednesday mornings from 10:30am – 11:30am to splash around and discover new things about water through interactive story telling, movement activities, arts and crafts and hands-on experiments.
To support theses fun, hands-on activities, a one-time $5 donation is suggested.
December 2: It Matters! Explore how winter water turns to ice. Be sure to register below!

Sunday Cinema: "Free Birds"
2015-11-29 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-11-29 13:00 - 15:00, 2015-11-22 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-11-22 13:00 - 15:00, 2015-11-15 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-11-15 13:00 - 15:00, 2015-11-08 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-11-08 13:00 - 15:00 and 2 more dates | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Join us every Sunday afternoon for Sunday Cinema – a free series featuring movies and documentaries that surround a water theme. It’s a great family-friendly event, and we’ll show a different movie every month. (Film selection subject to change.)
Free Birds: Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history – and get turkey off the holiday menu for good.

Science Saturday: "Harvesting History: Philadelphia before the Europeans Arrived"
2015-11-28 14:00 - 16:00, 2015-11-14 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Native Americans are an important part of our Thanksgiving celebrations. Learn about the original residents of Philadelphia and their reliance on local rivers and streams. We will learn about their culture, lifestyle and diet and about the local environment thousands of years before European settlers arrived. You can weave a mat of natural materials like the Lenni Lenape did!
(Sessions run every 30 minutes.)

Fall Open House
2015-11-28 13:00 - 15:00, 2015-11-27 13:00 - 15:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Continue your holiday festivities at the Fairmount Water Works!
Enjoy a special tour of the historic landmark, including a behind-the-scenes look at Kelly Pool. Eye-level with the Schuylkill, you’ll walk the same underground paths as a royal family and Olympic swimmers.
Visitors of all ages will be able to calculate the “water footprint” of their holiday meal during our “Setting the Thanksgiving Water Table” activity. Discover the many ways that water is a part of everything you eat, drink, and use throughout your Thanksgiving feast – from the mashed potatoes to the tablecloth – even the main attraction: the turkey!
We’ll even serve up some tasty seasonal treats, including apple cider.
(Note: The latter portion of the tour requires a hard hat, and may not be accessible for all of our visitors. Sturdy closed-toe shoes are strongly recommended.)

CLOSED - Thanksgiving Holiday
2015-11-26 10:00 - 17:00 | PA

3pm Closing
2015-11-25 15:00 - 17:00 | PA

2pm Closing
2015-11-25 14:00 - 17:00 | PA

Science Saturday: "Harvesting History: Philadelphia before the Europeans Arrived”
2015-11-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States

Schuylkill Soundings: City in a Park
2015-11-20 18:00 - 20:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Meet the authors of City in a Park, James McClelland and Lynn Miller for a special book signing and lecture at the Fairmount Water Works.
About City in a ParkFairmount Park is the municipal park system of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It consists of more than one hundred parks, squares, and green spaces totaling approximately 11,000 acres, and is one of the largest landscaped urban park systems in the world. In City in a Park, James McClelland and Lynn Miller provide an affectionate and comprehensive history of this 200-year-old network of parks.
Filled with nearly 150 gorgeous full-color photographs, City in a Park chronicles the continuing efforts to create a twenty-first century version of what founder William Penn desired, a “greene countrie town.”
Copies of City in a Park will be available for sale ($39.50).
Light refreshments will be served.
Admission is free, but registration is required.

Love Your Park Fall Service Day
2015-11-14 10:00 - 14:30 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
The LOVE Your Park program is a collaborative partnership between Philadelphia Department of Parks & Recreation and the Fairmount Park Conservancy to steward and support neighborhood parks throughout Philadelphia. The partnership works closely with neighborhood park friend groups to promote the network of parks across the city and the amazing work the friends groups do. Community engagement in neighborhood parks – whether it be weekly gardening days or concert nights in the summer – is key to maintaining our City’s parks as anchors in our neighborhoods for safe, welcoming and family-friendly recreation.
Fairmount Water Works is excited to be a participating site! Be sure to register for the day of service here.

CLOSED - Veterans Day
2015-11-11 10:00 - 17:00 | PA

Trails Through Time Tour
2015-11-07 13:00 - 17:00 | Tacony Creek Park Gateway, I Street & Ramona Avenue, Philadelphia, 19124, United States
Join Philadelphia Water Department’s Drew Brown and Adam Levine on this bus tour that will follow the winding course of the Wingohocking Creek.

Philadelphia was once laced with a system of streams and their tributaries, most now hidden underground. In the 19th and 20th centuries, city engineers re-channeled most of these waterways into massive sewers that run far beneath our streets.

Once a major tributary to Frankford Creek, the Wingohocking now runs in a sewer that drains Mt. Airy, Germantown, Olney, Feltonville, and Juniata. Points of interest along the way will include Awbury Arboretum and Belfield, home of Charles Wilson Peale. Learn about watersheds and how you can help protect the streams in your neighborhood. -Adam Levine, Philadelphia Water Department

Parking available at starting location & rest stops along the way.
Limited space. RSVP required.
RSVP to Robin Irizarry
robin@ttfwatershed.org | 215.744.1853

Hazardous Household Waste Event
2015-11-07 09:00 - 15:00 | Unnamed Venue, 3901 Delaware Avenue, Philadelphia, PA, 19137, United States
Handling and disposing of hazardous waste materials requires a special set of regulations due to the potential damage they can cause to people, pets and the environment. Residents can bring their hazardous waste to Household Hazardous Waste Events, sponsored by the Philadelphia Streets Department.

Science Saturday: "Autumnal Color Box: Fall Leaves"
2015-10-31 14:00 - 16:00, 2015-10-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Do you wonder why leaves are green in the spring and summer, but change to red, yellow and orange in the fall? Investigate the different colored pigments in leaves, identify different leaves, and perform an experiment to show how one color is really made up of many different colors.
(Sessions run every 30 minutes.)

Sunday Cinema: "A Bug's Life"
2015-10-25 15:00 - 17:00, 2015-10-25 13:00 - 15:00, 2015-10-18 15:00 - 17:00 | Fairmount Water Works, 640 Water Works Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, United States
Join us every Sunday afternoon for Sunday Cinema – a free series featuring movies and documentaries that surround a water theme. It’s a great family-friendly event, and we’ll show a different movie every month. (Film selection subject to change.)
A Bug’s Life: A misfit ant, looking for “warriors” to save his colony from greedy grasshoppers, recruits a group of bugs that turn out to be an inept circus troupe.
