Despite the cold temperature, the Bethpage community came out in large numbers to celebrate the 33rd annual Bethpage Chamber of Commerce St. Patrick’s Day Parade. And what a day it was! The Bethpage Water District was honored to participate in the parade as staff proudly stood upon our newly created interactive educational float.
Over the past few months, our staff worked diligently to build and construct a replica of our Bethpage Grumman Road Water Storage Tank. While it’s not nearly the 158-foot marvel that stands high above our town, our 8-foot replica certainly has all the same architectural and design characteristics. Our interactive educational float will now be a showcase vehicle when we conduct our student tours and demonstrations. It’s adorned with large scale color graphics of the Long Island Aquifer, as well as our water cycle…depicting where we draw our water from each day.
This was full-team effort, with staff contributing ideas and props. Thank you to all who volunteering their time to bring this interactive educational float to life. What a wonderful feeling to walk the decorated Bethpage streets alongside “Willing Water” (AKA: Willy) in full costume to meet and greet our community residents.