{"id":26800,"date":"2025-05-30T13:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26800"},"modified":"2025-05-30T13:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T13:30:20","slug":"westmoreland-conservation-district-pedals-for-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=26800","title":{"rendered":"Westmoreland Conservation District Pedals for Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26801\" style=\"width: 340px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26801\" class=\" wp-image-26801\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WCD-Pedaling-for-Conservation-5-25-682x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WCD-Pedaling-for-Conservation-5-25-682x1024.png 682w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WCD-Pedaling-for-Conservation-5-25-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WCD-Pedaling-for-Conservation-5-25-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WCD-Pedaling-for-Conservation-5-25-1024x1536.png 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/WCD-Pedaling-for-Conservation-5-25.png 1333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 330px) 100vw, 330px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos provided by Westmoreland Conservation District.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>The Westmoreland Conservation District hosted a bike ride along the Great Allegheny Passage as a way to educate participants about water quality issues in the county. During the 7 mile (roundtrip) ride, the 26 participants made multiple stops that showcased water quality improvement initiatives, such as abandoned mine site reclamation, mine drainage treatment, streambank stabilization, stream water quality testing, and illegal tire dumping in the river. Speakers on the trip included staff from the district, Tetra Tech, and the Mountain Watershed Association.<\/p>\r\n<p>The events were funded by a nonpoint source mini-grant from PACD, Flat Tire Co., and Bove Engineering.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-24933\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"94\" height=\"102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2.jpg 336w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg 275w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 94px) 100vw, 94px\" \/>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 Westmoreland Conservation District hosted a bike ride along the Great Allegheny Passage as a way to educate participants about water quality issues in the county. During the 7 mile (roundtrip) ride, the 26 participants made multiple stops that showcased water quality improvement initiatives, such as abandoned mine site reclamation, mine drainage treatment, streambank stabilization, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26800","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=26800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}