{"id":17965,"date":"2018-09-07T15:23:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T15:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=17965"},"modified":"2018-09-07T15:23:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T15:23:20","slug":"westmoreland-conservation-district-holds-green-infrastructure-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=17965","title":{"rendered":"Westmoreland Conservation District Holds Green Infrastructure Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17966\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17966\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17966\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WCDbustour-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WCDbustour-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WCDbustour.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WCD staff were on hand to talk about the swales, riparian buffer restoration, and monitoring project at the Westmoreland County Community College. Photo provided by WCD.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>In June, the Westmoreland Conservation District (WCD) held a green infrastructure tour in the Turtle Creek, Sewickley Creek, and Jacobs Creek Watersheds. The tour highlighted how green infrastructure projects can help manage stormwater and reduce nonpoint source pollution. Among the attendees were municipal managers and engineers, elected officials, staff from a water and sewer authority, and staff from the urban redevelopment authority.<\/p>\r\n<table style=\"height: 94px; width: 91.9743%; border-collapse: collapse;\" border=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr style=\"height: 94px;\">\r\n<td style=\"width: 20.0663%; height: 94px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10296\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/epa_logo-2.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 71.8629%; height: 94px;\"><em>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.<\/em><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/WCD-bus-tour.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read more.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June, the Westmoreland Conservation District (WCD) held a green infrastructure tour in the Turtle Creek, Sewickley Creek, and Jacobs Creek Watersheds. The tour highlighted how green infrastructure projects can help manage stormwater and reduce nonpoint source pollution. Among the attendees were municipal managers and engineers, elected officials, staff from a water and sewer authority, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-mini-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17965","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=17965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}