Conservation Districts Like School Districts
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Robert Maiden, PA Association of Conservation Districts, and Terry Fisher, Pennsylvania Infrastructure and Investment Authority (PENNVEST), “PACD’s Work in the AMR Community” Presentation will speak to the work the Districts conduct with watershed groups in Pennsylvania as well as support PACD provides to groups such as EPCAMR and WPCAMR to advance clean water, restored lands and sediment reduction across the state. Finally, the presentation will conclude with information provided regarding the PENNVEST program and how available funding can support AMR projects PA
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Conservation Districts Like School Districts
- 2. Robert Maiden PACD Executive Director
- 3. CONSERVATION DISTRICTS… …are just like school districts. Everybody lives in one.
- 4. PRINCIPLES Education & Outreach Sustainable Resource Conservation Local Partnerships Integrity Photos courtesy of Flickr and Istock Photo.
- 5. Terry Fisher PENNVEST NPS Application Developer
- 6. PENNVEST NONPOINT SOURCE PROGRAM Low-Interest Loans and Grants for Nonpoint Source Projects • Eligible Projects: Agricultural BMP’s; Urban Stormwater; Abandoned Mine Drainage; Brownfield Stormwater that have a water quality benefit. • Eligible Applicants: Public / Government Entities; Not-For-Profit organizations and Private-For-Profit entities) may apply. • Eligible Costs: Construction, Administration, Design & Engineering and Legal Fees. No matching funds are required. For more information, contact Terry Fisher at terry-fisher@pacd.org or 717-238-7223.
- 7. Eric Robertson Conservation Engineer with PACD’s Engineering Technical Assistance Program.
- 8. PACD ENGINEERING STAFF HAS EXPERIENCE DESIGNING AND IMPLEMENTING • Anoxic Limestone Drains (ALD) • Open Limestone Beds (OLB) • Vertical Flow Ponds (VFP) • FeAlMn Beds • Engineered Wetlands • Automatic Flushing Siphon Beds • Bioreactors • Engineered Settling Basins • Lime Dosing Silos • Limestone Sand Dosing • Pressure Venturi Systems • And Others
- 9. FLIGHT 93 MEMORIAL PARK AMD TREATMENT SYSTEMS Conservancy Auto Dosing Sipon Engineered Wetland Alkaline Iron Settling Basin Manganese Bed
- 10. DISTRICT PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS: FAYETTE COUNTY—SW REGION Firetower Road looking downstream. Mouth 5
- 11. DISTRICT PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS: WESTMORELAND COUNTY—SW REGION Brinkerton Abandoned Mine Drainage Installed Water Aeration Pumps
- 12. DISTRICT PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS: SCHUYLKILL COUNTY—NE REGION Rain gardens being installed along walking trail at the Silver Creek Acid Mine Drainage Treatment System.
- 13. 2012 PACD/EPCAMR AMD TOURS
- 14. Robert Maiden, Executive Director robert-maiden@pacd.org 717-238-7223 x14 Terry Fisher, PENNVEST NPS Program Application Developer terry-fisher@pacd.org 717-238-7223 x11 Eric Robertson, Conservation Engineer, Somerset Office eric-robertson@pacd.org 814-445-8979 x124 PACD THANKS YOU!
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Presenter: Robert Our Director of Education heard this one day and thought this is just the line to get more and more residents to actually understand districts!
- Presenter: Robert Overall discussion will speak to vision, mission, process, principles. Will also note: With a goal of unifying the membership around well-vetted, grassroots policies, the mission of the PACD is to be responsive to conservation districts so they can conserve natural resources throughout the commonwealth. Recent Successes for PACD: The 2013-2014 FY State Budget was signed into June 30. Conservation districts in Pennsylvania remain funded in the budget. Coupled with Impact Fee funding, districts will be able to continue working to conserve natural resources for our future. Senate Bill 1 (the transportation bill) did not pass but will be taken back up in the fall. Will emphasize that PACD is always looking for partner opportunities. Will ask audience how they think we can partner with them with local initiatives in their areas?
- Presenter: Terry Overall discussion will speak to PENNVEST NPS program; how program works; where individuals can get more information; types of programs/projects are funded. Touch on difference between the loan program versus the grant funding. Speak to types of projects previously funded. Close with something like we’re willing to partner with you on your abandoned mine drainage projects. If you are in need of funding, please contact me so we can further discuss ways the PENNVEST NPS Program can assist you in your project efforts.
- Presenter: Eric
- Presenter: Eric
- Presenter: Eric Fayette County is running a demo project where they are placing alkaline sand into Ramcat Run, a stream which is impacted by acid deposition. The technique being used often for AMD treatment. The district was looking at a low-cost, low-impact way to try and affect the stream’s pH so they partnered with groups such as Ohiopyle State Park and the Chestnut Ridge Chapter of Trout Unlimited among others. Together, they’ve placed sand piles on the streambank, on park property, off of a hardtop road which gets washed in during high water flows and carries downstream. This past spring, the Western PA Conservancy went out to assess the impact and while final numbers aren’t in yet, there does seem to have been some positive benefit to the stream. For more information on this project, contact Heather Fowler with Fayette County’s district at 724-438-4497.
- Presenter: Eric The cleanup project is in the upper part of the Sewickley Creek Watershed, which is Westmoreland County’s central watershed. At Brinkerton, the opening where the main discharge occurs was deliberately created years ago by the coal miners. They created it because they needed a place to drain water out of the mine so they could keep extracting the coal. At that time, there were no environmental laws in place to prevent this kind of practice. The water at the Brinkerton discharge contains iron, a pollutant. Iron oxide is the reason portions of Sewickley Creek, like many other creeks affected by drainage from coal mines, has an orange color. The cleanup solution that finally was put in place was to stop the discharge from going into the stream and to direct it instead first through a mechanical aerator and then into a large wetland that the watershed and its partners created. The purpose of the aerator is to artificially saturate the discharge water with oxygen almost as soon as it comes out of the mine. This causes the oxidation process – the formation of iron oxide – to happen almost immediately. The purpose of the wetland is to hold the aerated discharge water long enough for most of the heavy iron oxide particles to settle out and sink to the bottom of the wetland. Then the clean water can be returned to the stream. With the wetland system alone, about 80% of the iron is being removed from the water. When the aerator is added and all the flow is going through the system, nearly 100% of the iron will be removed from the water.
- Presenter: Eric During their time with the Schuylkill Headwaters Association, the NCCC Team members worked on a series of projects at the Silver Creek Abandoned Mile Drainage Trail and Recreation Park in New Philadelphia, Blythe Township. At this AMD passive filtration site that was being transformed into a community park, the team installed eight educational signs designed by previous Americorp VISTA Cataia Ives that explain the treatment system to visitors and describe the on-site project of the Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative (ARRI) to employ water boxes as a method to increase tree seedling survival rate. In order to combat runoff along the trails that encircle the ponds at Silver Creek, the NCCC team worked alongside local volunteers to spread 45 tons of topsoil and 16 tons of mulch. This was in preparation for planting over 2,500-square-feet with 2,664 native wetland plants of 17 different species. Additionally, the NCCC team seeded over 3,000 planting and almost every plant has thrived and tripled in size
- Presenter: Robert We spent the day touring several abandoned mine sites throughout Lackawanna and Luzerne Counties, giving us a first-hand account of the implemented conservation practices which curtail the impact of mine drainage on the area’s waterways. The tour was facilitated by EPCAMR. The following sites were visited: Duryea AMD Outfall; Solomon Creek AMD Borehole; Espy Run AMD Treatment System Expansion in Naticoke Creek Watershed; Newport Lake’s AMD water-filled stripping pit, “Lock Mess.” Unfortunately, we don’t have many photos to share as our Director of Education tripped while touring one of the sites and the camera went flying into the waterway pictured in the upper left corner of the slide. A similar tour took place November 16 in Sullivan County as we were looking to learn more about mine sites that have undergone treatment to alleviate the negative effects to the land also about the water resources in the area. While in the county, we had a chance to visit the coal strip pit reclamation site; Tunnel A acid mine drainage treatment system; an EPCAMR mine mapping project and the AMD lime dosing project. The first site we visited, the coal strip pit, was the latest mine drainage treatment system in the county. Near route 220, this is a small system on the Lewis Lumber Co. property which provides easy access and is used on a regular basis by the conservation district for 8 th grade education programs about mine reclamation, acid mine drainage treatment and water quality studies.
- Thank you. Hope we didn’t bore you too much. We appreciate your time . Please let us know how we can be a resource to you in the future.