{"id":27268,"date":"2026-03-20T15:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=27268"},"modified":"2026-03-20T15:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:23:23","slug":"berks-county-conservation-district-receives-watershed-restoration-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=27268","title":{"rendered":"Berks County Conservation District Receives Watershed Restoration Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27269\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27269\" class=\" wp-image-27269\" src=\"http:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BerksDCEDgrant-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BerksDCEDgrant-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BerksDCEDgrant-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BerksDCEDgrant-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BerksDCEDgrant-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/BerksDCEDgrant.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27269\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of check presentation event provided by Berks County Conservation District.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>State Senator Tracy Pennycuick\u2019s office helped the Berks County Conservation District obtain a PA Department of Community and Economic Development Watershed Restoration and Protection Program grant in the amount of $143,703. The grant funds will be used to restore a wetland and a tributary to Oysterville Creek in Pike Township, Berks County.<\/p>\r\n<p>Currently, the tributary is routed along the road shoulder and is a traffic concern, especially in winter, when it causes ice buildup.\u00a0With that come road salt issues, namely road salt entering an exceptional-value, wild brown trout stream. The Berks County Conservation District plans to return the tributary to its original channel and restore the wetlands.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Senator Tracy Pennycuick\u2019s office helped the Berks County Conservation District obtain a PA Department of Community and Economic Development Watershed Restoration and Protection Program grant in the amount of $143,703. The grant funds will be used to restore a wetland and a tributary to Oysterville Creek in Pike Township, Berks County. Currently, the tributary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-grants","category-legislative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27268","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=27268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}