Teachers will be introduced to the engineering and history of the Ridgewood Reservoir.

The Ridgewood Reservoir, in Highland Park, is a 50 acre natural oasis that straddles the border of Brooklyn and Queens. Built in 1859 to supply the once independent City of Brooklyn with high quality water, it became obsolete with the addition of new reservoirs in the Catskills in the 1950s and was decommissioned in the 1980s. Since then, nature has taken its course in a perfect case study of ecological succession. A lush and dense forest has grown in its two outside basins, while a freshwater pond with waterfowl sits in the middle basin.

Matt Malina is the director and founder of NYC H2O, a non-profit organization founded in 2009 that offers education programs about NYC’s water and ecology. NYC H2O’s mission to raise awareness about NYC’s water and waste treatment systems has reached thousands of students, impressing upon them the scale on which our water system functions and the unique ecology and engineering behind it.

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