News Release

Grants Awarded for Water Education

Harrisburg, PA-The Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. (PACD) announces the 2003 Mini-Project Program grant recipients. Awards were made recently to promote the theme, We All Live Downstream. Projects throughout the state were awarded up to $1,000 to promote water quality and pollution prevention.

The PACD administers two grant programs, the PA Chesapeake Bay Educational Mini-Project Program and the Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Mini-Project Program. With funding, organizations are able to implement educational programs to increase local awareness of water quality issues. The projects encourage citizen participation in activities to improve water quality in local watersheds.

The mini-project programs are funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection's Chesapeake Bay Program and the Environmental Protection Agency's Section 319 program.

A description of currently and previously funded mini-projects is available on the PACD website, www.pacd.org.

2003 PA Chesapeake Bay Educational Mini-projects:

• Adams Conservation District (Adams County): Rain Barrel Workshop
• Black Hole Creek Watershed Association and Montgomery Borough (Lycoming County): Black Hole Creek Watershed Festival
• Blair Conservation District (Blair County): Erosion and Sediment Control Awareness Display
• Bradford/Sullivan Forest Landowners' Association (Bradford County): Enhancing Watershed Forests brochure and mailings
• Canton Township (Bradford County): Towanda Creek Watershed Brochure
• Clearfield Conservation District (Clearfield County): Environmentally Sensitive Construction Workshop
• Cumberland Conservation District (Cumberland County): Do-It-Yourself Rain Barrel Kits to Promote Groundwater Conservation
• Huntingdon Area Middle School (Huntingdon County): Nonpoint Source Pollution Educational Display Advertisement
• Huntingdon Area Middle School (Huntingdon County): Tour a Local Farm: Controlling Nonpoint Source Pollution
• Juniata Clean Water Partnership (Bedford, Blair, Fulton, Huntingdon, Juniata, Mifflin
  and Perry Counties): Third Annual Juniata Watershed Summit
• Lancaster Conservation District (Lancaster County): Reducing Nonpoint Source Pollution through Nutrient Management and Precision Agricultural Record Keeping Systems
• Lancaster Conservation District (Lancaster County): Lancaster County Conservation Exposition
• Lebanon Conservation District (Lebanon County): Ag Camp
• Lititz Run Watershed Alliance (Lancaster County): Watershed Awareness Day 2003
• Mifflin Conservation District (Mifflin County): Landscaping for a Healthy Environment Workshop
• Mifflin Conservation District (Mifflin County): Innovative Stormwater Workshop
• Susquehanna Conservation District (Susquehanna County): Barnyard Treatment Tour
• Sylvania Borough/Sugar Creek Watershed Association (Bradford County): Sugar Creek Watershed Association Educational Calendar
• York Conservation District (York County): Managing Your Residential Septic System Workshop

2003 Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Educational Mini-projects:

• Conservation District/Kiskiminetas Watershed Association (Armstrong County): Stream Table - Kiskiminetas Watershed Association Educational Equipment
• Beaver Conservation District (Beaver County): Watershed Education Display
• Cumberland (Big Spring Watershed Association): Big Spring Discovery Day
• Bradford Conservation District (Bradford County): Bradford County Watershed Council Newsletter
• Clarion Conservation District (Clarion County): Stream Restoration Booklet
• Clearwater Conservancy of Central PA (Centre County): Conservation Techniques for Watershed-Wise Backyards and Businesses Display
• Crawford Conservation District (Crawford County): Crawford County Nonpoint Source Pollution Education Website Update
• Delaware Conservation District (Delaware County): Environmental Education Webpage
• Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (Luzerne County): Study on the Health and Diversity of Aquatic Insect Populations in an Urban Disturbed Watershed in the Wyoming Valley Due to Nonpoint Source Pollution Impacts.
• Glades Conservation Alliance (Butler County): Slippery Rock Watershed Awareness Program
• Lackawanna Conservation District (Lackawanna County): Increase Farmer Awareness of Nonpoint Source Pollution
• Lancaster Conservation District (Lancaster County): Lancaster County Watershed Newsletter
• Lebanon Conservation District (Lebanon County): Lebanon County Watershed and Nonpoint Source Pollution Portable Display
• Little Conemaugh Watershed Association (Cambria County): Little Conemaugh Watershed Community Education Project
• Monroe Conservation District (Monroe County): Watershed Webpage
• North Fork Watershed Association (Jefferson County): North Fork Watershed Festival
• Northcentral Region Mathematics/Science Education Collaborative (Clarion County):
  Nonpoint Source Pollution Awareness Workshop
• PA Cleanways of Mifflin County (Mifflin County): Enforcing Illegal Dumping Laws Meeting
• PA Cleanways of Cambria County (Cambria County): Fugitive Tire Program - West Branch, Susquehanna River
• PA Cleanways of Huntingdon County (Huntingdon County): Water Pollution from Illegal Dumping - Education and Outreach
• PA Cleanways of Indiana County (Indiana County): Fugitive Tire Program
• Penn Soil Conservancy Trust (Clarion County): Project Grass - Northwest PA Educational Display
• Pike Conservation District (Pike County): Watershed Model for Education
• Powdermill Nature Reserve/Carnegie Museum of Natural History (Westmoreland County): Interpretive Signage for a Permeable Pavement Activity/Parking Facility
• Schuylkill Conservation District (Schuylkill County): Bear Creek Festival
• Susquehanna Conservation District (Susquehanna County): Contractors Workshop
• Union Conservation District (Union County): Union County Newsletter and Educational Outreach
• Warren Conservation District (Warren County): Educational Stream Table Model
• Warren Conservation District (Warren County): Warren County Conservation Tour 2003
• Warren Conservation District (Warren County): Educational Booklet - "Hatch Run Conservation Demonstration Area - A Working Demonstration of Conservation and Water Quality Projects"
• Westmoreland Conservation District (Westmoreland County): Conservation Education Tour