{"id":17350,"date":"2018-04-19T17:29:06","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T17:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=17350"},"modified":"2018-04-19T17:29:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T17:29:06","slug":"potter-county-conservation-district-awarded-governors-award-for-environmental-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=17350","title":{"rendered":"Potter County Conservation District Awarded Governor\u2019s Award for Environmental Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GovEnvExc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-17351 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GovEnvExc-300x63.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GovEnvExc-300x63.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/GovEnvExc.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Twenty-three innovative and impassioned initiatives in Pennsylvania were chosen by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to receive the prestigious 2018 Governor\u2019s Award for Environmental Excellence.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;DEP received more than 60 applications, which we evaluated for their degree of environmental protection, innovation, partnership efforts, economic impact, consideration of climate change and sustainability, and results achieved,\u201d said DEP Secretary Patrick McDonnell. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor to recognize the tremendous impact many Pennsylvanians have in protecting our air, land, and water.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>Potter County Conservation District\u2019s \u201cWater Quality Protection and Education Initiative at Ludington Run and Beyond\u201d was selected to receive the award. The conservation district developed a comprehensive plan to improve water quality and habitat restoration to Ludington Run. Stream bedding materials are enhancing successful fish spawning, runoff carrying sediment and pollutants is discharging in a safe manner, and stream plantings are stabilizing the soil and reversing the trend of thermal pollution.<\/p>\r\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ahs.dep.pa.gov\/NewsRoomPublic\/articleviewer.aspx?id=21443&amp;typeid=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read the entire press release.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-three innovative and impassioned initiatives in Pennsylvania were chosen by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to receive the prestigious 2018 Governor\u2019s Award for Environmental Excellence. &#8220;DEP received more than 60 applications, which we evaluated for their degree of environmental protection, innovation, partnership efforts, economic impact, consideration of climate change and sustainability, and results achieved,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}