Workshops: Free GIS Mapping Support to AML Impacted Local Governments
Posted on Monday, 29 August 2005 (17:07:56) EDT by admin
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The National Fish & Wildlife Foundation has approved an award of $40,000 in federal funds under the Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants Program supported by the Office of Surface Mining to the Eastern PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation to support our public outreach efforts to local governments in the Coal Region of Northeastern PA and to provide FREE GIS Mapping that is focused on abandoned mine land reclamation, watershed restoration, economic redevelopment, and AMD remediation.
The Luzerne Conservation District is providing matching funds in terms of space and housing for the EPCAMR created position of a Municipal GIS Technician for the 1 year grant funded position under the grant. A brand new 44” wide color plotter was requested under the grant and has been purchased by EPCAMR and will be heavily used during the course of the project for producing professionally colored maps for local governments that will show various layers of land use, abandoned mine land acreage, stream miles impacted by abandoned mine drainage (AMD), watershed boundaries, and other thematic areas of interest to the local municipalities.
Rob Lavelle, a May 2005 graduate from The Pennsylvania State University, with a Bachelor of Science in Geography with a considerable amount of GIS experience, who is originally from Jeannette, PA, a southwestern coalfield community in PA’s Bituminous Region, jumped at the opportunity to get a job a few months after graduating, to gain some real world practical experience in GIS with a leading non-profit organization in the field of abandoned mine reclamation, in EPCAMR, and at one of the most pro-active Conservation District’s in Northeastern PA. His salary will be $22,000 that is allowable under the grant. Rob will be making the transition from the soft coal region to the hard coal region in the coming months and EPCAMR and the LCD are hoping to introduce him to the Wyoming Valley and the surrounding coal field communities over the next year.
20 workshops are going to be conducted over the course of the year that will showcase some of the available data, information, layered themes, and land use data, that will be especially important to appointed officials that are in charge of Planning, Land Development, and Comprehensive Land Use Planning, Regional Planning, and Watershed Restoration, especially the Planning Commissions. EPCAMR will be looking for Host Municipalities that must have a considerable amount of abandoned mine lands and waterways impacted by AMD to allow 2 hour workshops that are currently being developed by EPCAMR. Those municipalities will be given first priority on the production of the FREE GIS Maps. Contact Rob Lavelle, EPCAMR GIS Municipal Outreach Technician for details at 570-674-3409. More details of the scope of work for the project can be found on the EPCAMR Municipal GIS Website.
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