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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE...... 4 . DISTRICT MANAGER’S MESSAGE...... 6 . ENVIROTHON...... 8 STORMWATER SOLUTION CENTER...... 10 . PROGRAM OVERVIEW...... 12 . URBAN FORESTS...... 14 . DIRT, GRAVEL, AND LOW VOLUME ROADS...... 16 SOILS SOLUTION CENTER...... 18 . CHAPTER 102 PROGRAM OVERVIEW...... 20 . LARGE SCALE PERMITTING...... 24 . CHAPTER 105 PROGRAM OVERVIEW...... 22 . WETLAND CERTIFICATION...... 22 WATERSHED SOLUTION CENTER...... 26 . FOUNDING A WATERSHED ALLIANCE...... 28 . PROJECTS...... 30 . STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION...... 33 . OUTREACH AND EDUCATION...... 34 . CONSERVATION LEADERSHIP AND INNOVATION PROGRAM...... 36 AGRICULTURE SOLUTION CENTER...... 38 . PROGRAM OVERVIEW...... 40 . FARM EASEMENT MAP...... 42 4 | Allegheny County Conservation District
CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE Donald Newman, Board Chairman
HROUGH 2015 the management of to enhance our professional staff and provide stormwater remained of great importance quality and effective programming to meet Tto Allegheny County. The quantity and current and emerging environmental issues in quality of stormwater continues to impact the partnership with the public and private sectors. daily lives of our residents whether at work To that end we added new staff to ensure that or at play. The practical and regulatory issues the review process is not resource limited. associated with stormwater management have We also put in place additional professional been felt at a municipal, watershed, and County expertise to augment and support our full time levels as well. Programs, such as the Municipal staff. We were able to leverage our enhanced Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4), the staff resources in several directions to better County wide Act 167 Phase 1 planning effort, serve Allegheny County. First we added the and the Interim Consent Orders, have demanded Chapter 105 program to our delegation more expertise, capital, and maintenance agreements in order to improve the general resources to be committed annually. Stormwater permitting process for the County. Second, we management is of central importance to the have been able to accommodate variations in Allegheny County Conservation District as we staff workload and maintain turnaround times operate at the junction of rainfall and land use. in processing an increasing number of permits Our challenge as a District has been and during 2015. Our additional resources also remains to be, in partnership with our clients, permitted our Board to endorse a change in to develop the personnel, programs, and the District’s status to a Level 3 delegation to networking to address the many challenges provide resources stewardship through sensible facing Allegheny County. We must do this as an enforcement and enhanced compliance. organization that is right sized to provide the Finally, our added staff enabled us to basic functions of our delegation agreement – advance our multiyear strategic planning effort erosion and sedimentation control plan review, to address the regional wet weather challenges construction site NPDES permitting, inspections, as it relates to regulatory program challenges. and enforcement - as well as perform what we Our strengthened efforts are still organized see as our larger mission of public service. around our four Solution Centers: Soils, In 2015 our goal as an organization was Agriculture, Watersheds, and Stormwater. Allegheny County Conservation District | 5
In the upcoming year our programs will public participation, public education, and align to support the District’s goal of reducing outreach efforts in pollution prevention. both nonpoint source pollution and the We also have a willingness to step outside quantity of stormwater entering our waterways of old boundaries-political and others- when by engaging the public through partnerships, joint efforts can yield benefits to all parties. We outreach, and education. To this end we have will pursue watershed based partnerships with invested resources in technical upgrades to our our neighboring Conservation Districts like the website in order to provide the public with a one to improve the Turtle Creek Watershed that user friendly portal with information on permits, merited a Growing Greener Grant from PADEP. grants, District events and programs. In 2016 we Another expanding relationship is with the also expect to roll out our new website which Allegheny County Parks by providing expertise in will provide greater interaction and transparency. agronomy, manure management, nutrient, and The District will build on its commitment to water quality issues as well as provide resources watershed level solutions by committing staff to address abandoned mine drainage. While and other resources to foster the Allegheny the District remains committed to supporting Watershed Alliance. However, we also see a traditional farms, we are also looking towards need for cooperative action beginning at a urban farming initiatives in partnership with local level and are committed to building solid the Food Policy Council and others active in the relationships between watershed programs urban community. and municipalities. We will continue to Our Board and staff view the upcoming commit resources towards that goal through year as one where the Allegheny County our Conservation and Leadership Innovation Conservation District expands and strengthens Program (CLIP) Grants program. its relationships with our partners in the public Our municipal, engineer, and developer and private sectors to achieve the greatest stakeholder groups remain the cornerstones benefit from economic growth balanced of our outreach programs in providing critical by environmental stewardship in service to direction and feedback to our efforts. In Allegheny County. particular, we want to engage and support our municipal partners in their regulatory mandated 6 | Allegheny County Conservation District
Jan Lauer, District Manager DISTRICT MANAGER’S MESSAGE 2013 was a year of big organizational change, from the new offices to the new District Manager. 2014 was a year of finding our identity and determining where and how we could make the greatest contribution to the civic landscape. 2015 was a year of organization building to give us the platform and resources to fulfill our newly defined strategic direction. Again we turned to our partners and customers to help guide the way.
HE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY In 2014, we started to explore the idea of asked us for two things – timeliness and establishing a new, non-profit organization with consistency. To ensure that our permit the goal of creating an umbrella under which reviews meet on-time expectations, incorporated watershed groups, individuals, and weT hired two new Resource Conservationists loosely coordinated groups could accomplish to help share the workload. We had the great their clean water related goals. In 2015, we began fortune of hiring experienced professionals, to explore the concept in a more structured both of whom had rich experience in reviewing way, with focus groups, benchmarking of similar plans and performing field work in southwestern organizations, interviews, and outreach. It Pennsylvania. We also brought on an intern became clear that there was a place for such an and a fellow with expertise in Geographic entity in the region, and even more than a place, Information Systems (GIS) to explore what value there was an appetite for it. We recruited a group we might be able to provide to the community – of advisors that set about the task of defining particularly municipalities and elected officials – a mission and vision for the organization and through graphic representation of opportunities building a preliminary plan. With this in hand, and challenges. We soon discovered that local the District hired a Director for the Allegheny environmental organizations could make use of Watershed Alliance (her time donated by the the capability as well. As a result, we decided District to the Alliance) and started down the to create a new position that blended GIS path toward obtaining a charitable organization capability and erosion and sedimentation plan status for the Alliance. The excitement around reviews. We also expanded our administrative this new endeavor has been growing steadily, staff with an individual dedicated to the much of which can be attribute to the new waterways management permitting program. Director’s enthusiasm and vision. In terms of consistency, we introduced Agriculture is a largely unrecognized and a new in-house training program taught by underappreciated industry in Allegheny County, our District Engineer to ensure that our staff something that we are working to change. Few has a common understanding of the latest people know that through an agreement with the requirements of the plan review process and a Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, we help common approach to meeting them. We have to ensure that farmers – both urban and rural also instituted an early phase of a quality control – comply with laws that help our streams stay program, again to help ensure a high standard clean. Again, we turned to the community to see of consistency and quality. how we might best add value. The answer was Allegheny County Conservation District | 7
that Allegheny County is quite different from its Program for the County, making the expansion more rural counterparts in terms of the nature of the ag staff even more necessary. Each year, and volume of agriculture within its boundaries. the State provides the County with over a million A key difference is the growing interest in urban dollars to purchase development easements on agriculture – goats, bees, chickens, and more – key farmland. The Program is a strategic element even in the heart of Pittsburgh. Few understand of our rural program, allowing us to offer yet the rights and responsibilities surrounding another resource to the County’s agriculture urban agriculture, and fewer still understand community. the relationship between them and their rural Finally, we have continued to build out origins. At the same time, the County is home our technological capability. The community to horse, cattle, sheep, vegetable, and fruit farms, is looking for transparency and a better among others, which need to have the same understanding of what we do and how we do understanding of their rights and responsibilities. it. This year’s continuing investments in a web To both urban and rural constituencies, we platform and data management take us one step can help bring this understanding as well as closer to achieving that goal. information on financial and technical assistance As I noted above, 2015 was a year focused on resources that might be available to them. But building out the organization to help us meet the all of this effort could not be provided by just needs of our constituents and customers. With one person, so we added a second Agriculture the addition of new staff, an expansion of our Resource Conservationist with a more dedicated programs, ongoing investments in technology, focus on urban agriculture and its particular and more focus on community partnerships, needs. we have moved far down that path. As always, I We also had an opportunity to take on the credit our exceptionally talented and professional management of the Farmland Preservation staff for that success. 8 | Allegheny County Conservation District
ENVIROTHON This year’s Envirothon consisted of 18 teams representing 9 school districts from across the County. Approximately 130 students, volunteers, and teachers participated in the day-long competition. The event showcase high school student knowledge on ecological topics such as wildlife identification and forestry practices. Each team works its way through 5 challenge stations with each calling upon problem solving skills and the students’ ability to work together as a team.
ELD AT THE LODGE at the county’s North Park, the site allows for hands on experience in a pristine STATIONS: outdoor setting. The students also Hgain first hand knowledge from members of the District’s staff and field professionals at each Forestry Station station. Each team’s solutions, are scored per Wildlife Station station and then totaled across all stations. Aquatics Station An additional effort of the program this year Erosion and Sediment Station was to overhaul the District’s school contact database. A total of 90 public and private schools Urban and Community were confirmed and added to the master contact Forestry Station list for Envirothon. In doing so, targeting faculty in under represented areas of the county is a new possibility that will hopefully trigger participation togrow even more. Lastly, without strong volunteer participation, the day long competition would not be possible. The District thanks all those who supported the students to create a successful and meaningful event. Allegheny County Conservation District | 9 10 | Allegheny County Conservation District
• Program Overview
• Urban Forests
• Dirt, Gravel, and Low Volume Roads Allegheny County Conservation District | 11
STORMWATER SOLUTION CENTER The primary focus of the District’s Stormwater Solution Center is to provide municipal support in regards to stormwater management and practices. Assistance includes the administration of the State’s Dirt, Gravel, and Low Volume Roads Program (DGLVR) within Allegheny County. The District also serves as a resource for the development of stormwater management plans and provides technical expertise for stormwater system remediation projects. 12 | Allegheny County Conservation District
Jan Lauer, District Manager PROGRAM OVERVIEW For the past 20 years or so, primarily as the result of pressure from state and federal regulators, a focus for most municipalities in the County has been the reduction of combined and sanitary sewer overflows.
OR MOST RESIDENTS, a more personal Compounding the issue for municipal officials and immediate issue is flooding – flooding is that, although there are dedicated funding of homes, businesses, and streets. The streams to support drinking water and sewage call that a municipal official might get in infrastructure, there is, except in special cases, no Fthe middle of the night is typically not to report dedicated funding stream to manage non-point an overflow event but instead to report water in source stormwater. As a result, municipalities someone’s basement. and counties around the country are starting That overland flow, also known as non-point to explore local approaches – stormwater fees, source stormwater, typically results from a stream municipal authorities, etc. – to finance such that is overflowing its banks, water that is pouring investments. There are political challenges down a street past overflowing catch basins, or associated with these strategies as well. sheet flow from other impervious surfaces. Just To further complicate the stormwater issue as often, the municipality itself is not the only for the municipalities, those municipalities that contributor to the flooding – it comes from other fall under the Pennsylvania Department of municipalities higher upstream in the watershed. Environmental Protection’s Municipal Separate Often, no matter how much money is Storm Sewer (MS4) Program (nearly all the invested by the flooded municipality, the issue communities in Allegheny County) are required to cannot be solved. In only rare circumstances can implement a stormwater management program the upstream municipalities justify investment for minimizing the impacts from runoff. Under that benefits primarily downstream municipalities. the MS4 Program, permittees are required to Just as challenging is a downstream municipality incorporate six elements into their programs justifying an upstream investment. Most that include public education and outreach municipal officials understand the need to and management of construction site runoff, manage non-point source stormwater using a as examples. Each element includes program watershed approach. However, political realities development, tracking, and reporting – a often stand in the way of multi-municipal potentially expensive and ill-defined challenge to investments. which the municipalities must rise or potentially Allegheny County Conservation District | 13
STORMWATER SOLUTION CENTER
In only rare circumstances can the upstream municipalities justify investment that primarily benefits downstream municipalities. Just as challenging is a downstream municipality justifying an upstream investment. Most municipal officials understand the need to manage non-point source stormwater using a watershed approach. However, political realities often stand in the way of multi-municipal investments.
face large fines. MS4 reporting requirements. The Group is To understand better what the Allegheny helping to guide the District in finding regulatory County Conservation District can do to help (construction site management, e.g.), technical municipalities manage their non-point source assistance (white papers and studies), resource stormwater challenges, the District, in partnership (financing strategies), and even programmatic with the Allegheny League of Municipalities (stormwater guide for homeowners) solutions Banner Communities Program, has formed to support the municipalities. Even in its early a Stormwater Advisory Group. The Group stages, the Stormwater Advisory Group is comprises about fifteen municipalities that expected to have a big impact on the goals and are facing a host of stormwater issues, from strategies of the District related to non-point affordability of solutions to better understanding source stormwater management. 14 | Allegheny County Conservation District
Charlie Kirkpatrick, Senior Resource Conservationist / Forestry Program Lead THE IMPORTANCE OF AN URBAN FOREST Many people may think that the words “Urban” and “Forestry” have no business being side by side in the same sentence, let alone being an actual term used in society. When people in the Pittsburgh area think of forests or the word forestry, places like Tionesta, Potter County, and the Allegheny National Forest come to mind. The word “urban” does not even come to mind. But believe it or not, an “Urban Forest” actually exists.
REES MAY ONLY take up a small portion cover to promote shade, because this reduces of the city, but they are a critical part energy use within the urban landscape. And of the urban environment. Fewer than environmental professionals are reaching out to 40% of municipalities have developed the general public to promote better wood waste Tprograms to care for these publicly owned trees. utilization and low impact development. These programs help to retain a healthy, well A healthy, urban forest keeps residents balanced urban forest and promote a city’s image flocking to your city and keeps them there for and its quality of life. the long term. It even increases the value to your Urbanization and compaction damage a property. However, urban forests are constantly soil’s health. Carbon dioxide is greatly increased being threatened. Human intervention is within the city limits. Excessive wood waste is not essential to keep the places where we live, properly utilized. Impervious concrete does not work, and play that we want to come back to let rain water infiltrate into the ground and storm as environments. water runoff is increased. However, there are A well-managed urban forest reduces environmental professionals working together to energy, improves air quality, strengthens the improve these conditions. local economy, and reduces stormwater runoff. Foresters are rebuilding soils to promote So the next time you are sitting in a park, growth and treating them against invasive remember that there are professionals who help pests to prevent them from expiring. Arborists create the place you want to go to, the place are trimming trees to actively manage canopy that you call home. Allegheny County Conservation District | 15 16 | Allegheny County Conservation District
Jonathan Burgess, Senior Agriculture Conservationist DIRT, GRAVEL, AND LOW VOLUME ROADS 2015 marked the first year of the Allegheny County Conservation District’s participation in Pennsylvania’s Dirt, Gravel, and Low Volume Road Maintenance Program.
HE PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM In 2015, the Allegheny County Conservation is to provide education and grant District awarded $165,416.47 in funds to funding to local entities owning public three projects in Allegheny County: roads throughout the state in order to • Indiana Township was awarded $80,000.00 to Treduce the environmental impacts as well as resurface Cedar Run Road with Driving Surface long-term maintenance costs of local public Aggregate (DSA), the only Dirt/Gravel project roads. The program requires a balance of both funded in 2015 and the first of its kind in the environmental and road improvements and County. DSA is a limestone aggregate mix that focuses on reducing sedimentation. The State provides a stable, erosion-resistant driving surface Program was established in 1997 with the goal of while also improving the road base stability. eliminating pollution to streams caused by runoff and sedimentation from unpaved roads. In the • The Borough of Millvale was awarded 2014-2015 fiscal year, the Program was expanded $45,600.00 for their Brown Street Project. to include paved Low-Volume Roads (LVR) with an This project involved slope stabilization and average daily traffic count of 500 vehicles or less. stormwater controls to prevent sedimentation Municipalities who own roads and are into Girty’s Run as well as to prevent the total responsible for their maintenance are able to collapse of the street surface. apply to the Allegheny County Dirt, Gravel, • The City of Pittsburgh was awarded and Low Volume Road Maintenance Program $39,816.47 for their Low-Volume Road project for funding, provided an official from the on Buttonwood Street in the East End. At this site, municipality attends a two-day Environmentally water and ice caused erosion and flooding issues Sensitive Road Maintenance Training. Funding for properties downhill of Buttonwood Street. is provided from the licensing and registration Project funds were used to install a of vehicles in Pennsylvania and allocated by the new stormwater system. State Conservation Commission based on the miles of dirt and low volume roads in the County. Allegheny County Conservation District | 17 18 | Allegheny County Conservation District
• Chapter 102 • Large Program Scale Overview Permitting
• Chapter 105 Program Overview
By Kelly McLaughlin
• Wetland Certification Allegheny County Conservation District | 19
• Chapter 102 Program Overview
SOILS SOLUTION CENTER The Soils Solution Center concentrates its efforts on keeping streams free from sediment pollution caused by earth moving activities and by ensuring that stream obstructions and encroachments are properly constructed. We serve as a state delegated authority to review permit applications under Chapters 102 and 105 of the Clean Streams Law within Allegheny County. Controlling sediment and regulating obstructions to streams prevents flooding and provides safety for communities, while also fostering clean streams for wildlife, residents, and visitors alike. 20 | Allegheny County Conservation District
ACCD staff participated in Adopt-a-Highway clean-up of Little Deer Creek Road.
Kelly McLaughlin, Assistant District Manager / Chapter 102 Lead CHAPTER 102 PROGRAM OVERVIEW Charlie Kirkpatrick joined us as ACCD District Forester and Senior Resource Conservationist. In addition to his being a forester, he has conservation district experience and experience in oil and gas industry.
E ARRIVED EAGER to work and in addition to advising engineers on how has proven to be a valuable staff to complete and submit NOTs and conduct member. In addition to doing inspections. Kelly McLaughlin and Pat McManus outstanding work in our 102 program, were invited to participate on DEP’s Small HCharlie took charge of District employee team Projects Notice of Intent workgroup. building activities, and challenges the staff with ACCD presented a series of E&S workshops thoughtful and entertaining activities that help for the Associated Builders and Contractors us to get to know and understand each other’s of Western Pennsylvania, and co-sponsored strengths. Westmoreland Conservation District’s annual Practicekeeper is helping us to better track engineer workshop, reaching out to 450 applications, review status, and compliance. participants. Melinda established herself as our “NOT Our staff places importance on being Specialist”. She maps post construction up-to-date on changes to the 102 Program, stormwater management (PCSM) BMP’s after as well as honing their review and inspection Notices of Termination (NOT) are verified. skills to best serve the citizens of Allegheny She also prepares files for DEP record retention, County. Allegheny County Conservation District | 21
Erosion & Sediment Control plans for commercial and industrial developments comprise the highest number of plans submitted in 2015. Plans from the City of Pittsburgh topped the list, but we received the most plans for this activity in the western part of Allegheny County. Most housing development plan submissions being proposed are in the northern and western parts of the county, where housing development and construction has been occurring the most frequently in the recent past.
EXAMPLE PROJECTS CITY OF PITTSBURGH: UBER Advanced Technologies Center 178 disturbed acres
SOUTH FAYETTE TOWNSHIP: The Watson Institute 10.15 disturbed acres
TRAINING EVENTS ATTENDED BY STAFF MUNICIPALITY OF • New Technician Boot Camp MONROEVILLE: Forbes Hospital Expansion • PACD Advanced E&S Training 4 disturbed acres • Staff Conference • WCD Engineer Workshop • DEP Annual Training 22 | Allegheny County Conservation District
Melinda Muehlbronner, Senior Resource Conservationist LARGE SCALE PERMITTING The District’s responsibilities for the Pittsburgh International Airport included the mapping of the Airport’s NPDES permit projects dating back to 1993 into the District’s online permit database within the last year.
HE PITTSBURGH INTERNATIONAL Findlay Township and Moon Township. AIRPORT has had an active NPDES The Airport permit is also in 6 different permit since 1993, totaling over watersheds, Raredon Run, Montour Run, 100 projects within Airport property. North Fork Montour Run, McClarens Run, TThe Airport has the largest NPDES permit in Meeks Run and Trout Run. The Airport has a Allegheny County in both total project combination of land use types ranging from acreage and total disturbed acreage of 8,800 timber harvests, oil & gas, utilities, government acres and 150 acres respectively. Currently, the and commercial/industrial. Dick’s Sporting Airport has the largest active construction Goods Headquarters and the United States Air site in Allegheny County with a total of 150 Force 911th Airlift Wing Base are all on Airport disturbed acres at the Clinton Commerce property. The Airport also has had several Industrial Park in Findlay Township. The Airport stream, wetland mitigation and soil remediation NPDES permit is in two different municipalities, projects throughout the years. Allegheny County Conservation District | 23 24 | Allegheny County Conservation District
Matt Gordon, Senior Resource Conservationist / Chapter 105 Lead CHAPTER 105 PROGRAM OVERVIEW Allegheny County Conservation District completed its first full year of offering Chapter 105 Dam Safety and Waterway Management services to the county public through a delegation with PADEP in 2015. Chapter 105 regulates the design, maintenance, and construction of water obstructions and encroachments to streams, their 100 year floodways, and other waters of the commonwealth.
HE PURPOSE OF THESE regulations were tied for the second most common permit are to protect the health, safety, and applications. welfare of the people; and also to To ensure compliance with the Chapter conserve and protect water quality, and address private and public concerns Tnatural regime, and carrying capacity of about development in streams, floodways, watercourses. The first full year of 105 delegation and wetlands, the District expanded permitted included significant increases in permit reviews, site inspections and complaint investigations. complaint and permitted site inspections, and Completing a total of 76 inspections across outreach efforts. 28 different sites, the District worked with The District receives and reviews nine developers and contractors to achieve voluntary Chapter General Permits under its delegation compliance with good success. A single with PADEP and 2015 proved to be a busy year. permitted site was referred to PADEP for non- A total of 137 General Permits were received by compliance. Complaint investigations totaled 22 the District in 2015, a marked increase from the for the year, ranging from minor infractions to volume seen in the last quarter of 2014. Utility significant floodway and wetland fills near Long crossings made up a majority of permit activities, Run and the Youghiogheny River. The district as government worked closely with landowners, PADEP, and the and private entities Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission (PFBC) replace aging water, to move complaint sites towards compliance, sewer, and gas lines and, most importantly, to minimize risks to public throughout the welfare, safety and water quality. County. Permits for Several training and outreach efforts were new storm outfalls planned throughout the past year for specific and stream bank groups. Open door Thursdays at the District protection projects continued to be popular throughout the to preserve property year, with pre-application meetings a weekly and minimize erosion routine. A permitting and construction in Allegheny County Conservation District | 25
streams and wetlands presentation was given well attended by consultants and industry alike. at the Builders Association of Metropolitan The Dam Safety and Waterways Management Pittsburgh (BAMP) Builder Showcase held at the program continues to grow at the District. As Sheraton Pittsburgh Hotel at Station Square. the program lead, I am excited about future Geared towards developers, the presentation opportunities and evolution of our services. examined permitting basics and considerations Our core delegation requirements of general for developing properties with aquatic resources. permit review, site inspections, and public For the consultant and environmental science outreach will certainly be the foundation of the community, the District hosted two three-day program for years to come. Looking towards wetland delineation trainings in September 2015 2016, I hope to allocate more 105 program taught by EcoSource. The trainings included a resources to the District’s growing portfolio combination of classroom presentations and field of aquatic resource restoration projects to wetland identifications in Frick Park, and were supplement our regulatory role.
Photo by Melissa Rohm WETLAND CERTIFICATION ACCD hosted a Wetland Delineation Training great wetland indicator manual and field Course conducted by ECOSourcePA. tools. Watershed Specialist, Amy Miller and Approximately 20 people participated the Senior Resource Conservationist, Matt Gordon 2-day course completing both the classroom as well as two interns took part in the class. portion at ACCD’s office and field identification In addition, Amy and Matt also were able section at Frick Park. The three wetland to attend a wetland identification program indicators of soils, vegetation, wetland conducted by the Army Corps of Engineers hydrology were taught in depth. Included and USDA Natural Resource Conservation with the class were several field guides, a Service at Bald Eagle State Park. 26 | Allegheny County Conservation District
• Allegheny Watershed • Student Alliance Conservation Alliance
• Projects
• Outreach and Education Programs • CLIP Program Map Allegheny County Conservation District | 27
WATERSHED SOLUTION CENTER This Solution Center is a vital part of the District’s initiative to reduce non-point source pollution through riparian buffers, streambank stabilization, abandoned mine drainage (AMD) reclamation and source water protection. Services include the coordination and support of the Allegheny Wateshed Alliance, the execution of projects working to reduce non-point source pollutants, and the administration of the Conservation Leadership and Innovation Program (CLIP) – a grant program funding community watershed education and improvement. 28 | Allegheny County Conservation District
VISION The Allegheny Watershed Alliance envisions a region with healthy and valued water resources supported by a network of engaged and capable watershed groups.
MISSION The Allegheny Watershed Alliance is dedicated to the support and development of watershed groups by leveraging technology, building capacity, and creating spaces for partnership. Allegheny County Conservation District | 29
Amy Miller, Watershed Program Lead FOUNDING A WATERSHED ALLIANCE ATERSHED GROUPS ARE groups, the District is proud to announce the essential for on-the-ground Allegheny Watershed Alliance (AWA). The AWA knowledge and action in any strives to act as an umbrella organization to given watershed, and they provide crucial watershed groups working in Allegheny Wthe structure for what can and should be done County to improve our water quality resources within a watershed. Unfortunately, watershed and making Allegheny County a healthier place groups often struggle to exist and survive due to live. By working together, we can magnify the to a lack of funding, volunteer retention, or the positive environmental and community efforts of inability to navigate through complex paperwork watershed groups, and encourage the formation and audits. As a response to both the difficulties of new watershed groups across the County. of establishing and maintaining watershed 30 | Allegheny County Conservation District PROJECTS and high flow conditions, most of the AMD is neutralized by the time it flows into Pinkertons Run, with two exceptions, Tributaries 4 and 13, which are now the highest priority projects for eventual remediation.
Woodland Dam Removal The Woodland Dam Removal and River Restoration Project was completed the last week of July, 2015 by several project partners including ACCD, the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, American Rivers and the Little Sewickley Creek Watershed Association. The Woodland Dam Pinkertons Run-AMD Flow was located on Little Sewickley Creek, one Monitoring of Allegheny County’s cleanest, most diverse In partnership with the Allegheny County streams anddesignated a High Quality Coldwater Parks Foundation (ACPF), ACCD assisted with Fishery by PA DEP. Over the past several years, quantifying acid mine drainage (AMD) impacts the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy and to Pinkertons Run in Settlers Cabin Park, one of Duquesne University have conducted fish Allegheny County’s nine parks. With the intent surveys above and below this old, dilapidated to ultimately treat the AMD issues in the Park, structure and found that it is a complete fish ACPF utilized resources from Trout Unlimited’s barrier to over 30 species of fish, preventing (TU) AMD Technical Assistance Program. AMD them from accessing 15 miles of upstream impacts were first evaluated in fall 2014 under habitat in the Little Sewickley Creek Watershed. low flow conditions. ACPF then requested that In addition, the dam also presented a significant TU provide an assessment of AMD impacts via public safety hazard and was causing significant a monthly flow monitoring program for one erosion along the stream banks. year from spring 2015 to spring 2016 and a single high flow assessment in spring 2015. Monthly flow sampling was being conducted at nine discharges throughout the Park by the Allegheny County Conservation District (ACCD) with assistance from TU’s contractor, Hedin Environmental (HE). Most of the discharges originate from an old Pittsburgh Coal strip mine bench that ribbons through the watershed. All AMD sources identified and sampled in fall 2014 were re- sampled in spring 2015. Through this study we were able to determine that while many small flows of water With the owner on board, project partners in the Pinkertons Run watershed are polluted by were able to obtain the required funding for the inputs of AMD, these flows are readily neutralized dam’s removal with the goals of reconnecting by naturally occurring alkaline layers that occur fish populations and reducing erosion and downgradient of the coal seam. During both low sedimentation to the stream. Allegheny County Conservation District | 31
Beran Environmental was contracted to perform were given a rare opportunity to treat the Milk the work. Following the successful removal of the Run discharge using primarily private funding. dam, rock cross-vanes were installed to increase Through the agreement, Range Resources will fish habitat and stabilize failing streambanks. We provide $758,089 for design and construction will continue to monitor the fish passage with our as well as $191,000 for a long-term operation & project partners in the upcoming years. maintenance fund. Additional required funding was sought through the US Office of Surface Milk Run Abandoned Mine Mining’s Watershed Cooperative Agreement Drainage System – Program. Sleepy Hollow Riparian Buffer Sleepy Hollow Run is a 2.5-mile-long stream within the Peters Creek Watershed that drains a 700-acre area including the southern section of Allegheny County’s South Park. The stream is degraded by excess siltation and organic enrichment due to stormwater runoff. Much of this impairment is most likely due to the residential development on steep slopes in the upper half of the Sleepy Hollow Run Watershed and a number of horse farms just upstream of the park. The Sleepy Hollow Riparian Buffer Project The Milk Run abandoned mine discharge proposes to address these issues by developing emanates from a drainpipe in an abandoned about 50 feet of forested buffer on both sides underground mine in the Pittsburgh coalbed. of Sleepy Hollow Run in South Park to slow The drainpipe outlet is along Mahoney Road down stormwater flows and filter out pollutants. in North Fayette Township, Allegheny County. Native trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants will The acidic, metal-laden discharge is the primary be planted along both sides of Sleepy Hollow source of water in the headwaters of Milk Run. As the mine drainage is carried downstream, water of better quality is encountered, causing the metals to solidify and precipitate (fall out) of the water coating the stream bottom. The dramatically white-colored “Milk Run” flows about ¾ of a mile before it joins with an unnamed tributary of good water quality which further aids in the precipitation of white aluminum solids. The aluminum solids at the site are responsible for severely limiting aquatic life within Milk Run. The white plume of aluminum precipitates has also been observed in Montour Run. The Milk Run Abandoned Mine Drainage Run to stabilize the stream banks and enhance System Project is a broad-based, public-private the floodplain forest. The entire project involves partnership effort that includes the Montour Run approximately 5 acres of floodplain along Sleepy Watershed Association, Continental Communities Hollow Run. II LLC (landowner), Range Resources, PA DEP, The project is currently being designed with Allegheny County Conservation District, construction anticipated in the fall of 2016. The Washington County Conservation District design and species composition of the planting (WCCD), Independence Conservancy, BioMost, is a cooperative effort between Allegheny County Inc., and Stream Restoration Incorporated (non- Parks, the Peters Creek Watershed Association profit). (PCWA) and ACCD. Groups such as the Pittsburgh Due to a reclamation in-lieu of agreement Chapter of the Student Conservation Association, between Range Resources and the PA DEP, we South Park High School Environmental Club and 32 | Allegheny County Conservation District
local Scouting Troops as well as PCWA volunteers to the Monroeville Senior Center Detention will be enlisted to help with the planting as part Pond include sediment removal and a new of an educational outreach effort and assist with riser structure to replace the existing collapsed long-term maintenance and monitoring of the outlet. The existing asphalt parking spaces at project to ensure the planting’s success. the Monroeville Library will be removed and replaced with permeable paving, crushed stone Turtle Creek Stormwater base and an underdrain tied in to the existing Management Project – storm inlets. A large raingarden will be installed Some of our oldest, most highly developed to address runoff from the significant entrance communities are located in the Turtle Creek lot at Gateway School District. When combined Watershed that expands both Allegheny with the BMPs in Westmoreland County, the and Westmoreland Counties. As a result, project will capture over 450,000 cubic feet of about 3.5 miles of the stream are affected by runoff from developed land! sedimentation, bank erosion and degraded water quality due, in part, to excess stormwater. Hampton Habitat Improvement So Allegheny and Westmoreland Conservation Project: Districts are working together to address some of The Hampton Habitat Improvement Project these issues through the implementation of 14 consisted of stabilizing approximately 360 feet stormwater best management practices (BMPs) of stream bank and addressing a severe erosion to capture stormwater runoff at various locations problem. Stabilization was achieved through in the two counties. Projects will include a rain construction of in-stream structures that not garden at Steward Elementary which is part of only helped stabilize the stream banks but the Gateway School District, a stormwater basin also provided fish habitat improvements. The retrofit at Monroeville Senior Citizen Center, structures included 3 single log vane deflectors; a permeable pavement installation at the 3 log frame stone deflectors, 2 saw-tooth stone Monroeville Library, four municipal stormwater deflectors, and 4 root wad installations. This basin retrofits in Murrysville, and four in Penn project is estimated to eliminate 12 tons of soil Township. erosion per year and protect appoximately 400 The project was awarded approximately feet of flood plain. In addition, the members $280,000 through the Growing Greener Program of the Allison Park Sportsmens Club and to address this issue. These BMPs will use the community were educated about the benefits natural abilities of plants and soils to capture of these types projects through an informational and filter runoff, which will reduce the amount meeting with speaker Mark Sausser, Habitat of polluted runoff as well as the total volume Manager for the PA Fish & Boat Commission. of stormwater entering Turtle Creek. Changes Allegheny County Conservation District | 33
STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION HIS YEAR ACCD was able to host our monitoring and a dam removal project. In first Watershed Fellow through Student addition, Rebecca was able to gain valuable Conservation Association’s Green Cities work experience in all of ACCD’s other Solution Sustainability Fellowship program! The Centers-Soils, Stormwater, and Agriculture, TSCA unites young professionals with hands- getting field time with most ACCD staff on environmental challenges to create future members. Following her fellowship, Rebecca stewards of our land, water, and healthier was offered a position with ACCD coordinating environments. Rebecca Zeyzus, of Export, PA, the Allegheny Watershed Alliance and various was selected from numerous applicants to be other outreach efforts at the District. See inset, ACCD’s Watershed Fellow. Rebecca assisted below for Rebecca’s first-hand account of her ACCD’s Watershed Specialist with everything SCA experience. from stream monitoring to starting the ACCD hosted an SCA workshop with all Allegheny Watershed Alliance. She gained of the SCA Green Cities fellows in Pittsburgh first-hand knowledge in all areas of stream to show them all of ACCD’s Solution Centers sampling-chemical, biological and physical. and expose them to some field work, water Rebecca participated in a number of chemistry, sampling for macroinvertebrates and restoration projects including a stream bank our vernal pond restoration project. stabilization project on Pine Creek, AMD project
Rebecca Zeyzus, 2015 SCA Fellow SCA URBAN WATERSHED FELLOWSHIP When I read the post for the SCA Urban Watershed about local issues, such as abandoned mine drainage, Fellow position at the Allegheny County Conservation and issues that affect many places across the U.S. and District, I decided it had to be mine. This fellowship went the world- stormwater, nutrient and industrial pollution. above and beyond my expectations. Allegheny County I learned about methods to improve our water resources is unique in that it contains dense urban areas, suburban and pursuing efforts through fresh viewpoints. and exurban sprawls; our outdoor laboratory is vast and This fellowship has made me check my idealism rich. Within this laboratory, I was able to learn about to develop a better grasp of what can be done. Not different ecosystems through the lens of both water everyone shares my views on the environment. It has quality and community. also confirmed my optimism; there are a lot of people I met construction workers, consultants, engineers, and organizations in this region who care and want to elected officials, educators, students, citizens, business improve our water resources, and I want to be a part owners, and colleagues pursuing similar goals. I learned of those efforts! 34 | Allegheny County Conservation District OUTREACH & EDUCATION Creek Connection Symposium Education Programs Creek Connections is an effective In cooperation with Fern Hollow Nature partnership between Allegheny College and Center, Creek Connections and the South Fayette regional K-12 schools throughout western Conservation Group, ACCD assisted with over Pennsylvania to southwestern New York utilizing a dozen education programs on several topic outdoor space as environmental laboratories. including watersheds and macroinvertebrates, Emphasizing a hands-on, inquiry based earth science, weather, invasive species and investigation of local waterways, this project geology. Through these partnerships, we were annually involves over 40 different secondary able to work with almost 600 kids from 10 school schools and the classes of 50 teachers. Five districts. Students ranged in age from third to hundred students from 19 schools (NY, OH, seventh grade. With these programs, we are and PA) attend The Creek Connections Annual not only able to meet curriculum requirements, Student Research Symposium at Camp but students are engaged in hands-on training Kon-O-Kwee in Zelienople to show off their with real world scenarios that help them to not hard work on both poster displays and oral only grasp the concepts being taught, but to presentations. appreciate nature and hopefully become future Additionally, more than 30 environmental stewards of our land and water resources. professionals, including Allegheny County Conservation District attended the event to further foster good environmental stewardship. ACCD’s display included a “When I Grow Up” game to highlight the adult form of the macroinvertebrates that students have studied in the stream all year. The Symposium was a great learning opportunity for all and for the students to make contacts for summer internships and careers. Allegheny County Conservation District | 35 OUTREACH & EDUCATION Alcosan Open House Cabin Fever The region’s largest watershed and The Annual Cabin Fever Expo, sponsored and environmental festival, the ALCOSAN Open constructed by the Penn’s Woods West Chapter of House features hands-on environmental Trout Unlimited, was held in March at the Marriot exhibits, treatment plant and laboratory tours, Pittsburgh North in Cranberry Twp, PA. ACCD microbiology and watershed life demonstrations, assisted the Montour Run Watershed Association and educational activities for all ages! Hundreds with their table showing fly fisherman the insects of students from 98 schools took part in things they are trying to imitate with flies. The 2015 ranging from constructing a 3-D model of a Expo was a huge success and had well over 950 watershed using everyday objects to completing attendees during the show. a series of hands-on activities to learn about the effects of water quality on microbial activity. League of Women Voters-Shale Participating schools included Pittsburgh Public and Public Health Conference Schools, North Allegheny School District’s This conference features new research on McKnight Elementary and Marshall Middle School shale and public health presented by local and in Marshall Township. national experts, and a special break-out session on addressing shale health issues in one’s practice. ACCD presented information on watershed health and garnered support for the newly forming Allegheny Watershed Alliance. 36 | Allegheny County Conservation District
Conservation Leadership and Innovation Grant Program Year 2015 Map
Bell Acres Vernal Pond Habitat Restoration Little Sewickley Creek Watershed LSCWA and partners restored a naturally-functioning vernal pond - formerly a breeding habitat for Jefferson salamanders and other amphibians. This provided a site for an Meeks Run Water Quality Project outdoor lab for ongoing amphibian monitoring Hollow Oak Land Trust Project focused on the engagement of landowners to restore water quality in Meeks Run – Montour Run’s cleanest tributary. Project aimed to change the landscaping practices that lead to nutrient loading and degradation.
Laying the Groundwork for AMD Remediation in Emerald View Park Mount Washington CDC (MWCDC) Prior to award, MWCDC investigated several AMD discharges in Emerald View Park. MWCDC was then awarded funding to continue flow monitoring and to survey and map the area in preparation for a conceptual design of a treatment system.
PFEX Green Roof Start Uptown The PFEX green roof project showcases FUNDING OVERVIEW the merits of vegetated roofs, rainwater harvesting, renewable Total Grant Budget for Fiscal Year 2015: energy, urban agriculture, and restorative landscape design on a $100,000.00 single rooftop in Pittsburgh’s recently Total Funds Awarded/Requested: reinvigorated Uptown neighborhood. $100,665.00 / $121,665.00 Total Matching Funds Based on Grants Awarded: $120,640.00
APPLICATION OVERVIEW First Waves Letters of interest (LOI) Paddle Without Pollution First Waves was an initiative that educated teens facing adversity to surf and standup Total LOI’s Received: 23 paddleboard on local waterways and Number of LOIs Approved for Grant Application: 18 provided a hands-on learning opportunity about filmmaking and watershed Number of LOIs Not Approved for Grant Application: 5 conservation. Number of LOIs/Applications Withdrawn: 2 Total Number of Grant Applications Received: 14 Allegheny County Conservation District | 37
Pine Creek Streambank Stabilization at Hampton Water Treatment Plant Penns Woods West: Trout Unlimited This project addressed increasing Byerly Drive Streambank stream bank erosion problems Stabilization Project through the installation of fish habitat structures designed by the PA Fish and Borough of Etna Boat Commission. The project restored Etna Borough and Shaler Township and provided 360 feet of stream worked together to stabilize about 235 bank habitat. feet of stream bank along West Little Pine Creek through a combination of mechanical and biotechnical methods.
Plum Ballfields Streambank Stabilization Plum Borough Awardee protected 500 feet of Little Plum Creek along Hereda Field on Ross Hollow Road. Natural stream design techniques for vegetative stabilization were used to show the public how ecology in the creek can be restored
Partnership to use Goats as a Forest Restoration Tool in Pittsburgh Tree Pittsburgh The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, Mount Washington CDC, and Tree Pittsburgh implemented the use of goats as a control of invasive plant species in priority restoration sites managed by each organization.
Living Waters - Negley Run Watershed Project Kingsley Association Negley Run Watershed project of the Living Waters of Larimer expanded its urban rainwater stewardship and outreach from the redeveloping neighborhood of Larimer to the entire Negley Run Water(sewer)shed.
Transforming Twelfth Avenue Borough of Homestead The Borough and partners MLK Field Community implemented a community greening Garden Water Harvesting and stormwater management project Hill House Association at Barrett Elementary School that focused on installing sidewalk tree Awardee designed a solar-powered pits to collect storm water runoff from rainwater natural treatment/filtration, Glenn St., East 12th Ave., and Amity St. harvesting, and distribution system, purchased equipment, and held workshops and outreach efforts to promote knowledge of rainwater harvesting. 38 | Allegheny County Conservation District
• Program Overview
• Farm Easement Map Allegheny County Conservation District | 39
AGRICULTURE SOLUTION CENTER Our Agriculture Solution Center supports communities in Allegheny County by providing soil sampling, the development of manure and nutrient management plans, as well as implementing the County’s Farmland Preservation Program. This program protects viable farmland by acquiring conservation easements which prevents the development or improvement of land for any other purpose than agricultural production. 40 | Allegheny County Conservation District
Jonathan Burgess, Senior Agriculture Conservationist PROGRAM OVERVIEW ACCD’s Agricultural programming underwent a significant number of changes in 2015, with the District assuming control of the County’s Farmland Preservation Program and expanding into the Urban Ag sector, in addition to traditional technical and educational programs. Additionally, the District continued to develop its Whole Farm approach to outreach, oversight and technical services.
n March of 2015, ACCD was handed control and crop technical advice to farms as well as of the Farmland Preservation Program, taking assisting them in maintaining compliance with PA over from Allegheny County Economic manure and nutrient management regulations. Development. Having the program as part of These assistance programs help to ensure the IACCD makes sense, as Conservation Districts are sustainability of environmental resources on the already serving farmers by providing outreach farm and prevent unnecessary impacts to the assistance on other State and Federal programs. regions streams and rivers. Towards this end, ACCD The Allegheny Farmland Preservation Program agricultural employees hosted workshops aimed was allocated $1.2 million in State funds for 2015. at educating farmers on regulatory compliance During the remainder of 2015, ACCD received as well as soil health and proper application of final State approval for or closed on the purchase nutrients with a manure spreader. of four farm preservation easements totaling The expanded capacity of the Agricultural 548 acres, bringing the Allegheny County total Program in 2015 will bring a number of new to approximately 3,500 acres. Additionally, ACCD opportunities to the Conservation District in 2016, completed a 7-year review of two Agricultural and staff is looking forward to assisting farmers Security Areas (ASA) and began assisting and community members with the expanded residents of two townships with the formation of portfolio of the Whole Farm platform. Expanded additional ASA’s in their respective municipalities. technical assistance in Urban areas, municipal The District looks forward to growing this outreach and model ordinance education, program and ensuring the preservation of farms data-driven soil science and conservation throughout the County. planning, grant support, and growing cooperative Additionally, ACCD continued to support efforts with local and regional partners will all farmers in Allegheny County through its play a role in modernizing our services and Conservation Technician and Nutrient/Manure improving their efficacy. Management Programs. We provide soil, water Allegheny County Conservation District | 41 42 | Allegheny County Conservation District
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The expanded capacity of the Agricultural Program in 2015 will bring a number of new opportunities to the Conservation District in 2016, and staff is looking forward to assisting farmers and community members with the expanded portfolio of the Whole Farm platform. CONTACT US
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