PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2022

By Sean O'Connor, Communications Intern, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Rain gardens are a crucial piece of green infrastructure that capture and filter stormwater before it enters local waterways. They are bowl-shaped and full of native grasses, perennials, and shrubs whose roots filter sediment and pollutants from runoff.

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PA Environment Daily

MAY 1, 2023

of sediment from entering Commonwealth waterways Award Winners The 2023 groups, organizations and individuals recognized include-- -- Allegheny County for the South Park Green Parking Lot: Following an ecological assessment of the location, the county began work to convert an existing asphalt parking lot to a green parking lot.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 19, 2022

Another goal of the Plan update is to review and finalize Critical Area Resource Plans in the Potomac and Ohio regions that were left unfinished during the 2009 update.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The easy answer is “pollution”, but specifically, in Pennsylvania, we are concerned with protecting our streams and rivers from excess nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment pollution. Sediment comes from the erosion of soil- it is dirt displaced. Nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment all exist naturally within streams and rivers.

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Towns, homes and businesses near rivers, creeks and streams experienced extreme flooding. The Schuylkill River Greenways National Heritage Area continues to address this need with the distribution of $337,500 in grants this year. The garden will feature a subterranean stormwater storage system and Pennsylvania native plants.

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JUNE 9, 2021

Clair and on to Lake Huron, homes are set back from the shore to allow room for erosion and flooding that come with the heavier, more frequent storms linked to a changing climate. Supercharged storms, drought, rising seas, heat, plagues and wildfires are likely to push people away from coastal areas and parts of the South and West.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

The grants were awarded through the Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Grant Program (INSR) and the Small Watershed Grants (SWG) Programs, core grant programs of the federal-state Chesapeake Bay Program partnership that are administered under NFWF’s Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2021

By Peter Durantine, Franklin & Marshall News A profound discovery concerning sediments and streams in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, made nearly 20 years ago by two Franklin & Marshall geosciences professors, drew national media attention at the time and changed the way science views land use and water quality.

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PA Environment Daily

JUNE 26, 2023

“The latest new funding program, the Clean Streams Fund, is serving as a significant boost to agriculture conservation funding through the Agriculture Conservation Assistance Program as well as funding toward stormwater management (Act 167 Stormwater Management Planning) and wastewater infrastructure (H2OPA and Small Sewer and Water Projects).

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 29, 2022

Nonpoint source pollutants include nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment from agricultural and urban and suburban land use, as well as iron, aluminum, and acidity from energy resource extraction and acid mine drainage. Preferences Preference is given to projects in environmental justice areas ; in municipalities complying with Pa.

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PA Environment Daily

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Here, at Salisbury Township Community Park, a summer stream restoration project had converted Plain Sect crop fields along an unnamed tributary to Pequea Creek into wetlands and native plantings for wildlife and to prevent flooding. And in Washington, DC, 10 volunteers each planted a single tree in a small green space in a housing complex.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Conewago Creek Restoration Prior to the restoration work which began in May 2022, the area of the Conewago Creek along Hoffer Road in Londonderry Township was plagued with exceptionally steep stream banks, large areas of sediment deposits, little to no stream buffer, frequent flooding, and high amounts of nutrient and sediment pollution.

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 6, 2023

30 Stormwater Workshop For Municipal Officials, Staff, Engineers And Environmental Advisory Councils In Butler County [PaEN] -- Warren Times: 15th Allegheny River Cleanup To Be Held Sept. -- Warren Times: Household Hazardous & Electronic Waste Collection Event To Be Held In Youngsville Aug. 16 [PaEN] -- Early Bird Registration!

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Video Of Aerial Photos Of The Oil & Gas Industrial Landscape In SW PA, Eastern OH And Northern WV -- West Penn Power Sustainable Energy Fund, Six&Kane Will Host Oct. Million By 2045 Goal -- StateImpactPA: Oct. 1 In Warren County -- Alliance For The Chesapeake Bay First-Ever 24-Hour Volunteer Tree Planting Relay In PA, MD, DC Oct.

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PA Environment Daily

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

28 Webinar On Green Stormwater Infrastructure [PaEN] -- March 4 Penn State Extension Webinar On Monitoring Soil Moisture: A Climate Smart Ag Practice [PaEN] -- March 11 Streambank Stabilization And Stream Crossings On Farms Webinar [PaEN] -- PA Society Of Professional Engineers Host Feb. Keystone Coldwater Conference Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2022

House Republicans have recently introduced a package of eight bills to address localized flooding problems by digging out stream channels and not through natural stream restoration techniques designed to prevent flooding and debris build up.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 20, 2022

The House Environmental Resources and Energy Committee is scheduled to hold an April 25 informational meeting on a package of eight bills that attempt to address localized flooding problems by digging out stream channels and not through natural stream restoration techniques designed to prevent flooding and debris build up.

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PA Environment Daily

OCTOBER 2, 2023

“I think it's really important for us not to be sort of pointing fingers and playing a blame game around what we see with whether it's clean and quality water or it's flooding impacts or the other things that are environmentally occurring that impact these creeks and then impact homes and businesses.”

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 14, 2024

19 Webinar - Climate Change Projections For PA & Conservation Practices To Help Farmers Cope [PaEN] -- Penn State Extension Community Trees Update: DCNR Helping Communities Map Trees; Input Needed On Forestry Programing; Education Opportunities [PaEN] -- Foundation For Sustainable Forests Woods & Water Film Series Jan. 19 & Feb.

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Shapiro Provides Fresh Support To Key Changes Recommended In 2020 Grand Jury Report To Tighten Regulation Of The Natural Gas Drilling Industry To Better Protect Public Health, Environment [PaEN] -- Natural Gas Pipeline Pigging Facility Malfunction Dec. 27 Released 1.1

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PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Casey On Leadership: Our Problems Have Taught Us That We Cannot Continue The Mindless Practices Of The Past -- Gov. Dick Thornburgh On Leadership: People Living In The Chesapeake Bay States Should Not Have To Wait Another 30-Plus Years For Clean Water -- Gov.

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