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Over $34,000 Awarded to Conservation Districts for Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Educational Projects

Written by Shannon Wehinger on . Posted in Mini-grant

Monroe County Conservation District conducted outreach using a rain simulator as part of a nonpoint source pollution prevention educational mini-grant in 2017.

Eighteen projects in 17 counties were selected for funding, totaling more than $34,000 for the 2018 round of the Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Mini-grant Program for Conservation Districts. The program is administered by PACD and funding is provided through the PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).

“PACD is thrilled to work with DEP to fund projects across the Commonwealth. This funding will allow districts to educate citizens about their part in reducing nonpoint source pollution,” said PACD Executive Director Brenda Shambaugh. “The result will be cleaner water and healthier soil for future generations.”

The projects funded are:

Allegheny

Equine Environmental Stewardship Short Course

Beaver

Stormwater Help for Homeowners

Bedford

Homeowner Practices to Minimize Stormwater/NPS Pollution Impacts

Berks

Preventing Nonpoint Source Pollution through Adult Education in Berks County

Bradford

Interseeder and BMP Demonstration Days

Chester

Chester County “Day on the Bay”

Dauphin

Rain Barrel Workshops

Elk

Non-Point Source Pollution Educational Series

Erie

We All Live Downstream: A Residential Stormwater Workshop

Greene

Stormwater Workshops

Lackawanna

Stormwater Management In Your Back Yard

Lawrence

Pilot Teacher’s Watershed and Stormwater Workshop

McKean

McKean County Streamside Stewardship

Perry

SCOPE = Scientific Citizens Observing Pollution (in the) Environment.

Potter

Ag-Stravaganza

Wayne

A Precipitation Education: Rain Barrel Workshop

Wayne

Stream Maintenance and Flood Intervention Workshop

Westmoreland

Green Infrastructure Tour in the Turtle Creek, Sewickley Creek, and Jacobs Creek Watersheds

 

Financial and other support for this project is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.