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Allegheny County Conservation District Highlights of Conservation District Activities 2018 Presented by PACD Adams County Conservation District 2018 Feature Accomplishment Other Accomplishments Contact Information 14th Annual Soil Health Meeting Adam McClain Resource Challenge District Manager Pennsylvania’s Phase 3 Watershed Implementation Plan continues to challenge farmers to implement more Carl Keller Jr. best management practices (BMPs) to meet state Board Chairman • Ag BMPs installed: 8 sediment allocated nutrient reductions. basins, 19,989 ft of subsurface 670 Old Harrisburg Road, Suite 201 drainage, 18 waterways (10 Project Summary and Results Gettysburg, PA 17325 acres), 1495 ft of diversions, and For the 14th year in a row, ACCD staff have coordinated (717) 334-0636 881 ft of terraces the annual soil health meeting bringing together 100+ www.adamscounty.us • Performed 250 E&S inspections Adams County farmers interested in improving their soil with 99% compliance health and better manage nutrients. Through guest • Renovated a cooperative trout speakers and peer-to-peer organized discussions, this nursery with Act 13 funds meeting helps farmers understand the successes and • Installed 3 acres of riparian challenges with nutrient reducing practices such as buffers and contracted 14.8 no-till and cover crops to ultimately make the practices acres more economically feasible and accepted. The latest • Dirt, Gravel, and Low Volume survey in Adams County estimated: no-tilling or Roads completed 5 sites: 4 conservation tilling 81%; cover cropping 35%. stream culvert replacements, More Work to Do 2040 ft of improved roadside Key Project Partners • Assist landowners with installing ditches, 1529 ft of underdrains, Natural Resource Conservation Service, PA No-Till forest riparian buffers 760 ft of improved road surface Alliance, local farmers, local Ag business sponsors • Assist agricultural operations with • Mosquito-borne Disease installing agricultural BMPs and Program sites treated: 314+ complying with state regulations • Assist local MS4 municipalities with Grant Money Brought to the installing urban BMPs County from Conservation • Assist local land developers comply District Efforts: with state soil erosion regulations • Assist municipalities with installing $1,347,924 stormwater BMPs along local roads Allegheny County Conservation District 2018 Feature Accomplishment Other Accomplishments Soil Screening Contact Information • 102 workshops – Resource Challenge Contractors workshop, Balance land use and natural resource challenges in Heather Manzo Executive Director Trumbull Corp. training, urban communities to create fundamental ecological improvements. Builders Association Donald Newman Metropolitan Pittsburgh Board Chairman • Chartiers Watershed Project Summary and Results celebration Soil and Lead Work 33 Terminal Way, Suite 325B Pittsburgh, PA 15219 • DCNR grant tree planting We performed (to date) 1,694 free individual soil lead tests for residents, communities, and non-profits in (412) 241-7645 Robinson Run, Montour Allegheny County in 2018 alone. This represents a www.conservationsolutioncenter.org Run 1000+ savings of $45,738.00 (using Penn State Ag Analysis lab • Urban Ag model ordinance pricing) for these people and groups. This cost does not • Pollinator habitat include the hours upon hours of fieldwork, sample More Work to Do installations collecting, processing, testing and reporting. The reach of this process includes the City of Pittsburgh and 13 • Increase inspections on NPDES • Awarded $100,000 CLIP additional municipalities. grants permitted sites. • Increased AWA • Continue tree planting in riparian areas Key Project Partners • Integrate regulatory and program membership Pittsburgh City Planning, Operation Better Block, activity Homewood Children’s Village, Sankofa Village Projects, • Identify projects for urban and water Grant Money Brought to Grow Pittsburgh, Phipps Conservatory and Botanical quality improvements and secure the County From Gardens, Larimer Consensus Group, the Hilltop funding. Conservation District Alliance, Grounded Strategies, Deco Resources, • Develop municipal and legislative Manchester Growing Together, Tri-Cog Land Bank, engagement strategy. Efforts: Pittsburgh Urban Charter School, Carnegie Mellon Managing $1,562,191 University, University of Pittsburgh, Chatham University, Funds received $91,060 UPMC Children’s Hospital, Millvale Community Garden, SciTek Consultants, FIT Farms, Pittsburgh CitiParks, and the Beltzhoover Men’s group Armstrong Conservation District 2018 Feature Accomplishment Baker-Roaring Run Ag BMP Growing Greener Grant: $78,555 Total Project Cost: $153,646.38 Other Resource Challenge Contact Information Accomplishments The goal of the project was to install agricultural BMPs on the Ron Baker Farm to reduce the sediment and nutrient runoff to Rattling Run (Roaring Run Watershed). David Rupert • Boarts Ag BMP - $60K Project Summary and Results District Manager • Stubrick Ag BMP - $35K BMP’s Installed: Andrew Kimmel • Campbell Run Ag BMP - •Heavy Use Area Protection (1408 SF), Waste Storage Facility(780 SF), Roofs & Covers (2240 SF), 1 Roof Runoff Management, Underground Outlet (112 LF), .1 Board Chairman $50K acre Critical Area Planting/Mulching, 1 Water Control Structure, Fence (374’), • Huling Run AMD Livestock Pipeline (613 LF), 2 Watering Facilities, Animal Trail & Walkways (828 120 S. Grant Ave, Suite 2 Treatment - $151K SF), 1 Pumping Plant, 1 Spring Development, Access Road (155 LF’), Stream Kittanning, PA 16201 Access 1 & 2 (139 LF), 1.1 acre Riparian Buffer, Subsurface Drainage (71.5 SF), 1 (724) 548-3425 • Darmac #14 AMD Water Control Structure, Rock Lined Channel (192 SF), and Streambank Fencing www.armstrongcd.org Treatment - $166K (1,313 LF). • Silver Rock-Phase I AMD •Development/update of 1 NRCS Conservation Plan and 1 Act 38 Nutrient Management Plan. Treatment - $157K More Work to Do Key Project Partners • AVLT/ACD NPS – Phase •Landowner: Ron Baker • Parks Twp. Sportsmen’s III - $904K •Support: PACD Engineering Program (TAG), Kittanning NRCS, Clarion NRCS Club - $425K • Garretts Run Ag AMP - Technical Office • Pine Run Stream $50K Restoration - $50K • DGLVR Projects - $817K • MED Expansion and Phase II - $105K Totaling: $2,360,000 • Silver Rock AMD Left: Before Treatment Phase II - Funding brought to Right: After $355K Armstrong County • Kimmel Landowner through Conservation Reclamation - $125K District efforts: Most of these sites will be featured on our GeoTrail $3,498,555 (ArmCoConservation) at Geocaching.com Totaling: $1,060,000 Beaver County Conservation District 2018 Feature Accomplishment Contact Information Other Accomplishments Resource Challenge To address stream pollution caused by James Shaner Over 1200 students attended classes at runoff and sediment from the county's comprehensive network of District Manager the BCCD Environmental Center free of unpaved and low volume public roads. charge. Mike Price Project Summary and Results The Dirt and Gravel Road Board Chairman Streambank stabilization project Maintenance Program is based on the principle that informed and completed on Traverse Creek empowered local control is the most effective way to stop 156 Cowpath Road pollution from dirt and gravel roads. It stresses site-specific, long- Aliquippa, PA 15001 Workshops held in 2018: term solutions to prevent erosion and pollution. Funds are (724) 378-1701 • Rain Barrel Workshop distributed by the State Conservation Commission (SCC) to the • Pond Workshop www.beavercountyconservationdistrict.org conservation district. The district accepts applications for funding • Stormwater BMP Workshop from potential applicants, and award grants to municipalities. The • “Weathering the Storm” Workshop for Educators district is responsible for working with grant applicants to develop • Ag E&S/Manure Management projects, project oversight, financial tracking and reporting, and • Manure Management Plan Writing general administration of the Program at the county level. • Healthy Forests and Landowners Townships are required to attend an Environmentally Sensitive More Work to Do • Manure Haulers/Brokers Regulations Maintenance (ESM) Course in order to be eligible for Dirt and • Equine Environmental Education Gravel Road Program Funding. • E&S Regulations • BCCD Land Management Plan BCCD worked with several municipalities to naturalize watershed dynamics using cross pipes and by replacing stream crossings. • Promote Forest Health Sedimentation to waterways was reduced with limestone DSA Grant Money Brought to the placement. • Farm Conservation Projects County From Conservation District Efforts: $399,736.15 Key Project Partners PA State Conservation Commission Center for Dirt and Gravel Road Studies Darlington Township Darlington Borough Greene Township Bedford County Conservation District 2018 Feature Accomplishment Other Accomplishments Contact Information Potter Creek Habitat Improvement Resource Challenge Jennifer Lentz Kovacs Potter Creek, a Class A Wild Trout tributary to Yellow Creek, is District Manager impaired by siltation from agricultural sources. Trout Unlimited chapters and the Conservation District have identified stream James Bence bank erosion sites on stream reaches not used for pasture or Board Chairman crop fields and small habitat-focused improvements are planned to reduce bank erosion and sedimentation. 702 West Pitt Street, Suite 3 • Bedford County Conservation Bedford, PA 15522 Project Summary and Results District maintains a drop-off (814) 623-7900 – ext. 4 recycling
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