Blair County Conservation District Breaks Ground
(L to R) Bonnie Young, Administrative Assistant; Chelsey Ergler, Stormwater Coordinator; Beth Futrick, Ombudsman; Donna Fisher, District Manager; Diane Thomas, Resource Conservation Technician; Suzanne Black, Conservation Education Specialist; Margaret Angle, retired District Clerk; Rich Huether, Ag Conservation Specialist; Stephen Dumm, Resource Conservation Technician; and Joshua Stoehr, Resource Conservation Technician. Photo provided by the Blair County Conservation District.
The Blair Conservation District held a groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday, March 29, 2018, for Blair County’s first environmental-specific park. The park, located at 10 Bedford Street in the Borough of Hollidaysburg, has been named “NatureWorksPark”.
Construction is slated to be completed by late summer 2018 and will include a walkway with instructional signage, a mitigated wetland and boardwalk, a pollinator garden, “soft access” to the Beaverdam Branch of the Juniata River, two pavilions, an amphitheater, demonstration areas for plants/crops, stormwater alternatives, riparian buffer establishment, and wetlands.
The project was partially funded by a $250,000 grant from the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and $4,000 from the Altoona Sunrise Rotary, . The remainder of the funds will come from the Conservation District Account funded by the Public Utility Commission through the Marcellus Shale program.
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