{"id":26204,"date":"2024-06-14T16:38:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T16:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26204"},"modified":"2024-06-14T16:38:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T16:38:20","slug":"columbia-county-conservation-district-holds-rain-barrel-workshop-at-local-farm-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26204","title":{"rendered":"Columbia County Conservation District Holds Rain Barrel Workshop at Local Farm Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26205\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26205\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26205\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ColumbiaRB-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ColumbiaRB-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ColumbiaRB-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ColumbiaRB-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ColumbiaRB-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/ColumbiaRB.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26205\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of rain barrel workshop provided by Columbia County Conservation District.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>The Columbia County Conservation District held two separate rain barrel workshops. The 49 attendees learned about non-point source pollution, how it affects our waterways, and best management practices that can be used at home to reduce stormwater.<\/p>\r\n<p>Thanks to partners at Rohrbach&#8217;s Farm Market and the Coca-Cola syrup factory near Allentown, who donated all the barrels for free, the district was able to host two workshops instead of the original plan to hold one. A total of 45 50-gallon rain barrels were distributed to be installed around Columbia County to reduce stormwater.<\/p>\r\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-24933 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 81px) 100vw, 81px\" \/>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><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbia County Conservation District held two separate rain barrel workshops. The 49 attendees learned about non-point source pollution, how it affects our waterways, and best management practices that can be used at home to reduce stormwater. Thanks to partners at Rohrbach&#8217;s Farm Market and the Coca-Cola syrup factory near Allentown, who donated all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26204","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\/26204","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=26204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}