Wallace Run in Centre County required an investment in its restoration. The stream begins in the Allegheny Front in State Game Land 103 and flows northwest for eight miles, gathering water from small tributaries. There, where the watershed is mostly forested, Wallace Run is a pristine trout stream. But as it turns to flow along […]
Planting Trees Along Ridley Creek
Ridley Creek State Park is one of the largest contiguous areas of tree cover in Delaware County and makes significant contributions to improved air quality and reduced pollution. The five-county region, which includes Philadelphia and Delaware counties, has suffered an 8% (34,000 acres) loss of heavy tree cover since 2000. This reduction in tree canopy […]
Sandy Run Wetland Restoration
Growing Greener II investments allowed the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association (WVWA) to complete Phase II of its Sandy Run Wetland Restoration and Enlargement project in Montgomery County. The expansion and restoration of wetlands in this section of Sandy Run, a tributary of Wissahickon Creek, ensured significant stormwater storage for an area with a history of […]
Stormwater BMPs Demonstration Site
In 2005, the Montgomery County Conservation District was awarded Environmental Stewardship Fund grant money to implement a stormwater best management practices (BMP) demonstration site on the headwaters to Little Neshaminy Creek in Montgomery Township, a suburban landscape in Montgomery County with lots of impervious cover. Impervious surfaces are mainly artificial structures such as pavements (roads, […]
Turning Red Streams Blue
In 2006, the Brandywine Valley Association (BVA) initiated a program called Red Streams Blue to address the problem of impaired streams in Brandywine Creek. BVA began this initiative by creating color-coded watershed maps, in which impaired streams are shown in red, while streams that have attained their designated use were displayed in blue. The goal […]