News & Notes November 2001

PACD Announces 2001-2002 Chesapeake Bay and 319
Mini-Project Grant Program Participants

PACD recently announced the grant recipients for the 2001-2002 Pennsylvania Chesapeake Bay Educational Mini-Project Program and Section 319 Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Mini-Project Program.

The programs provide up to $1,000 for grassroots educational activities designed to improve water quality and promote the theme, We All Live Downstream. In all, 30 projects are now officially underway.

Funding for the Mini-Project Program is provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Below is a complete listing of current mini-projects.

Pennsylvania Chesapeake Bay Educational Mini-Projects:

• Adams Conservation District (Adams County): Conservation Successes in Adams County
• Cambria Conservation District (Cambria County): Cambria County Soil Sampler Project – Part 2
• Centre Conservation District (Centre County): Best Management Practices Farm Tour
• Chester Conservation District (Chester County): Enviroscape Loan Program
• Clearfield Conservation District (Clearfield County): Enviroscape Education Program
• Huntingdon Area Middle School (Huntingdon County): BMP Study: A Solution to Nonpoint Source Pollution
• Huntingdon Area Middle School (Huntingdon County): Crooked Creek Watershed Assessment
• Huntingdon County CleanWays (Huntingdon County): Pollution from Illegal Dumping – Education and Outreach
• Lancaster Conservation District (Lancaster County): Lancaster County Conservation Exposition
• Luzerne Conservation District (Luzerne County): Enviroscape – Nonpoint Source and BMP Model Demonstrations
• Snyder Conservation District (Snyder County): Snyder County Farmer’s Winter Meeting
• Sullivan Conservation District (Sullivan County): Watershed Education Displays
• Susquehanna Conservation District (Susquehanna County): BMPs for Erosion and Sediment Control Workshop
• York Conservation District (York County): Managing Your Residential Septic System Workshop

Section 319 Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Mini-Projects:

• Armstrong Conservation District (Armstrong County): Biosolids Mobile Display
• Tamanend Middle School (Bucks County): In My Backyard – Investigating the Water Quality of the Neshaminy River
• Clarion Conservation District (Clarion County): Nonpoint Source Education Program for Clarion County
  
• Fayette Conservation District (Fayette County): Nonpoint Source Enviroscape Model
• Fayette Conservation District (Fayette County): Erosion and Sedimentation Pollution Display
• Fayette Conservation District (Fayette County): Storm Drain Stenciling Project
• Indiana Conservation District (Indiana County): Poster Contest/Nonpoint Source Pollution Control
• PA Cleanways of Indiana County (Indiana County): Illegal Dump Educational Tour
• PA Cleanways of Indiana County (Indiana County): Fugitive Tire Program – Spring 2002
• Lawrence Conservation District (Lawrence County): Lawrence County Conservation District Crop Day
• Pike Conservation District (Pike County): Best Management Practices Workshop
• Pike Conservation District (Pike County): Understanding Watersheds and Man’s Impact on Them – A Watershed Placemat Designed to Introduce the Common Man to the Watershed
• Warren Conservation District (Warren County): 2001 Warren County Youth Conservation Camp
• Warren Conservation District (Warren County): Warren Conservation Tour 2001
• Warren Conservation District (Warren County): Warren Conservation Tour 2002 Warren Conservation District (Warren County): Water Quality Education Board Display
  

Detailed description of the projects listed above, as well as applications, program information and a catalogue of completed projects, are available on the PACD website, www.pacd.org. Interested organizations are encouraged to apply.

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