PACD Kicks Off 2000-2001 Chesapeake Bay and Section 319 Mini-Project Programs

PACD recently announced the grant recipients for the 2000-2001 Chesapeake Bay and Section 319 Mini-Project Grant Program. A total of 33 projects, addressing the problem of nonpoint source pollution in Pennsylvania waterways, are now officially underway.

Funding for the annual project is provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Below is a complete listing of current Mini-Project Programs.

Section 319 Mini-Project Grant Programs:

• Endless Mountains RC&D (Bradford County): Environmental Forums for an Alliance of Watershed Communities
  
• French Creek Project (Crawford County): Teaching Fourth Graders About Nonpoint Source Pollution
• Erie County Conservation District (Erie County): Workshop
  
• Fayette County Conservation District (Fayette County): Countywide Assessment of illegal dumpsites
  
• Muddy Run Watershed Association (Huntingdon County): Backyard Conservation – Public Outreach
  
• Indiana County Conservation District (Indiana County): Water Supplies for Livestock -- Fact sheet
  
• PA Cleanways of Indiana County (Indiana County): Fugitive Tire Program
  
• Lackawanna State Park – DCNR (Lackawanna County): Using the Enviroscape Pollution Prevention Model
  
• Mifflin County Conservation District (Mifflin County): Home-A-Syst: Kishacoquillas Shed
  
• Perkiomen Valley Trout Unlimited (Montgomery/Bucks counties): Upper Perkiomen Conservation Education
  
• Manayunk Development Corp. (Philadelphia): Manayunk Canal and Watershed Improvement Program
  
• Pike County Conservation District (Pike County): Know Your Watershed Pike County Conservation District (Pike County): BMPs for Developing Areas Workshop
  
• Susquehanna County Conservation District (Susquehanna County): Stormwater Management Workshop
  
• Susquehanna County Conservation District (Susquehanna County): BMP Contractor's Workshop
  
• Susquehanna County Conservation District (Susquehanna County): Soils Education Project

Chesapeake Bay Mini-Project Grant Programs:

• Bradford Conservation District (Bradford County): Stream Table
  
• Broad Street Elementary School (Cumberland County): Fifth Grade Echo Hill Field Trip
  
• William Penn School (Dauphin County): The Susquehanna Watershed
  
• Harrisburg Inner City Outings (Dauphin County): Bayscape in the City
  
• Chambersburg Area Senior High School (Franklin County): The Conococheague Creek Watershed Water Quality Monitoring
  
• Huntingdon Area Middle School (Huntingdon County): Dams and Energy: How They Influence a Watershed
  
• Keystone College Water Discovery Center (Lackawanna County): Geological Dynamics Stream Table Purchase
  
• Lancaster County Conservation District (Lancaster County): Lancaster County Conservation Exposition
  
• Friends of the Union Canal Tunnel Park (Lebanon County): Reforesting the Tunnel Park
  
• Northumberland County Conservation District (Northumberland County): Water Quality Education Program
  
• EPCAMR/Schuylkill Conservation District (Schuylkill County): EPCAMR Constructed Education Display Model
  
• Schuylkill County Conservation District (Schuylkill County): Chesapeake Bay BMP Awareness Tours
  
• York County Conservation District (York County): Resources Management For Horse Owners