EVMWD to host Water Festival tomorrow

Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District (EVMWD) invites the community to its annual “Splash into Spring” Water Festival tomorrow, Mar. 23, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at EVMWD headquarters, 31315 Chaney St., Lake Elsinore.

This free family-friendly event features tours of the water treatment plant, conservation demonstrations, landscape ideas, plant displays, children’s activities and water and wastewater related trucks and equipment.

EVMWD staff will share their daily work at the district through a variety of demonstrations and interactive displays. Activities include a virtual tour of the Colorado River Aqueduct, fixing a leaky water main, performing a valve exercise, cleaning up a polluted watershed and exploring pipes with robotics and video cameras.

Other activities include a visit from EVMWD’s Elsinore Eddie, Storm’s Thunder and the Lake Elsinore/San Jacinto Watershed Authority’s Bessie the Bass. The Lake Elsinore Sheriff’s Department and American Medical Response will be on hand with emergency vehicles for children to explore.

Tours of Elsinore Eddie’s Efficient Gardens at the headquarters are also a highlight of the event, giving visitors an idea of how beautiful a water-efficient landscape can be.

Landscape and irrigation experts, University of California Riverside Master Gardeners, local nurseries, irrigation specialists and home improvement stores will be on hand to answer questions about outdoor irrigation, California-friendly plants, gardening and water-saving appliances and devices.

For more information, visit evmwd.com/splash or call 951-674-3146, ext. 8248.