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hardcoal writes "Governor Rendell Investing to Improve PA’s Economy, Environment; Awards $14.4 Million in Growing Greener Funds

HARRISBURG - November 17, 2005 – As part of Governor Edward G. Rendell’s aggressive agenda to improve the state’s economy and environment, Pennsylvania is investing $14.4 million to help local conservation organizations clean up watersheds, enhance environmental protection and revitalize communities across Pennsylvania. The money will fund 129 project grants through Pennsylvania’s Growing Greener program.

“These grants will improve the quality of our waterways, address serious environmental problems at mine sites and make our communities more livable,” Governor Rendell said. “Pennsylvania needs clean streams, protected open spaces and uncontaminated sites in order to win the race for new business development, enhance our economic competitiveness and create the jobs we critically need.

“Growing Greener is supporting our efforts to grow our economy. At the same time, it’s cleaning up our environment and conserving our exceptional natural resources.”

Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGinty made the grants announcement a little more than a week after Governor Rendell announced the first $65 million in grants under voter-approved Growing Greener II bond initiative. That law brought to fruition more than a year of aggressive efforts by the Governor to address some of the state’s most pressing environmental problems and help the state win the race for revitalized communities, new business and job creation.

The Secretary also said that DEP is now accepting applications for the 2006 watershed restoration and protection grants to be awarded in the eighth year of Growing Greener as well as Growing Greener II. The deadline to apply is March 3.

“Governor Rendell is making the investments we need today to keep Pennsylvania ‘growing greener’ well into the future,” McGinty said. “Cleaning up rivers and streams, protecting natural areas and open spaces, preserving working farms – these are priorities all of us share. Growing Greener is a powerful tool to address these pressing environmental issues while partnering with local communities to help revitalize our economy.”

Included in the $14.4 million, which represents the seventh round of funding awarded by DEP under the traditional Growing Greener program, are the following: $9.3 million in traditional watershed grants, $1.6 million in federal Office of Surface Mining Title IV grants, $1.9 million for the beneficial use of acid mine discharge to clean state waterways and $537,081 in 10 percent set-aside funds for state-federal mine reclamation projects. In addition, DEP is recommending $1.1 million in Nonpoint Source Implementation Program Grants, funded through Section 319(h) of the federal Clean Water Act.

Since 1999, DEP has supplied $172 million in watershed grants for 1,497 projects in all 67 counties of Pennsylvania. The grants are used to create or restore wetlands, restore stream buffer zones, eliminate causes of nonpoint source pollution, plug oil and gas wells, reclaim abandoned mine lands, and restore aquatic life to streams that were lifeless due to acid mine drainage.

For the upcoming grant round, DEP will invest in projects that seek to address nonpoint source pollution, such as comprehensive watershed plan implementation; legacy sediment and stream restoration; nutrient and sediment trading; long-term operation and maintenance for watershed projects and mine drainage treatment systems; urban and agricultural runoff; and upgrades to on-lot sewage systems.

Eligible projects also could include reducing nonpoint source pollution in watersheds where streams are impaired; designing practices and activities that support water quality trading initiatives; integrating stormwater management and flood protection into watershed management; encouraging the beneficial use of abandoned mine pool water; and integrating air deposition controls and management with mitigating water quality problems.

Deadline for submitting applications to the DEP Grants Center is March 3. Applications must be postmarked no later than that day. If hand delivered, the package must be received by 4:30 p.m. on March 3. Late submissions will not be considered.

For more information on Growing Greener, visit DEP’s Web site at www.dep.state.pa.us, Keyword: “Growing Greener.”

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a list by county of the $9.3 million in Growing Greener watershed restoration and protection grants:

ADAMS

Watershed Alliance of Adams County Inc. - $14,076 for the operation and maintenance of the East Berling stream gauge.

ALLEGHENY

3 Rivers Wet Weather Inc. - $50,000 to develop a water quality monitoring plan for bacteria in the three rivers area of Pittsburgh.

North Area Environmental Council - $19,251 for a stream channel and riparian assessment of the Pine Creek Watershed.

ARMSTRONG

Armstrong Conservation District - $72,899 to install agricultural best management practices in the Patterson Run watershed with water quality monitoring during the pre- and post-construction phases to do*****ent results.

BEAVER

Beaver County Conservation District - $110,000 to continue installation of agricultural best management practices and target farms in the Raccoon Creek Watershed.

BEDFORD

Bedford County Conservation District - $77,800 to address soil loss by putting in place year-round no-till operations at farming operations through the Crop Management Association.

BERKS

Foundation for the Reading Public Museum - $24,248 to design and obtain permits for an 850-foot reach of Wyomissing Creek above the area where two dams were removed in 2004, using new techniques for restoration.

BLAIR

Altoona - $115,000.00 to finish restoration of Mill Run by stabilizing stream banks, removing debris and using structures for better stream flow.

BRADFORD

Bradford County Conservation District - $2,500 for a team of nutrient and conservation planners to visit 58 farms in the North Branch Towanda Creek subwatershed to develop an inventory and evaluate best management practices to reduce pollution from agricultural operations.

Bradford County Conservation District - $60,000 to supplement Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) buffer projects which include four miles of buffer restoration with fencing, two miles of buffer restoration without fencing, 10 acres of buffer maintenance and rotational grazing system components.

Schrader Creek Watershed Association - $120,000 to construct a passive treatment system to mitigate the effects of chronic acidification of Little Schrader Creek. The project was designed through a previously funded Growing Greener grant. Little Schrader Creek is considered an “exceptional value” cold water fishery.

BUTLER

Butler County Conservation District - $4,037 for a manure-testing program for farmers. A nutrient management technician would discuss and help calculate proper application rates.

CAMBRIA

Greater Johnstown Watershed Association - $14,300 to provide organizational support for a new urban watershed association to increase membership and address environmental problems (including stormwater control) in the greater Johnstown area.

CAMERON

Cameron County Conservation District - $46,000 to help address the single worse source of acid mine drainage in the Sterling Run Watershed through the design of a passive treatment system at May Hollow 49 to restore approximately 6.2 miles of stream connecting trout populations in the headwaters to emerging populations in Sterling Run.

CARBON

Jim Thorpe - $48,583 to prepare designs and permits needed to construct stream channel protection, restoration and stabilization on two sections of Slaughterhouse Creek.

CENTRE

Moshannon Creek Watershed Coalition - $15,000 to develop a restoration plan for Shimmel Run, a two-mile long stream affected by acid mine discharge.

Moshannon Creek Watershed Coalition - $30,000 to clean up the first polluted discharge on a major unnamed tributary to Trout Run.

Moshannon Creek Watershed Coalition - $30,000 to clean up the second major polluted discharge affecting Trout Run.

CHESTER

Tredyffrin Township - $40,000 to restore approximately 2,400 linear feet of severely eroded stream bank along two branches of Trout Creek.

CLEARFIELD

Trout Unlimited, Allegheny Mountain Chapter - $20,000 to determine the magnitude of the acidification problem in Trout Run, a tributary to the West Branch of the Susquehanna, and develop a progressive restoration plan to mitigate this problem.

Clearfield County Conservation District - $1,400 for startup funds for a new watershed group’s efforts to do work on Deer Creek and help restore the West Branch of the Susquehanna River.

Clearfield County Conservation District - $40,000 to purchase monitoring equipment and supplies to construct weirs, pay for sample analysis and to produce outreach materials to recruit volunteers for Deer Creek and West Branch of the Susquehanna River cleanups.

CLINTON

Clinton County Conservation District - $40,000 to fund agricultural best management practices on farms in the Fishing Creek Watershed.

CRAWFORD

Fairfield Township - $70,000 to assess and develop a restoration plan for Wyman Run, which contributes excessive sediment to French Creek.

*****BERLAND

Camp Hill - $45,800 for the Willow Park Stream Restoration Project, which involves the design and rehabilitation of 1,400 linear feet of an urban stream in the borough as part of the Cedar Run watershed restoration initiative, a multi-municipal effort to restore a cold water fishery in the Yellow Breeches Watershed.

*****berland County Conservation District - $50,000 to install agricultural best management practices on farms in the Three Square Hollow Watershed.

DAUPHIN

Harrisburg - $37,471 for Paxton Creek Watershed restoration.

Harrisburg - $25,000 to design and permit a stream corridor rehabilitation project along lower Asylum Run within city limits.
Paxton Creek Watershed and Education Association - $32,825 for a stream corridor restoration project that would measurably reduce sediment and nutrient yield to Wildwood Lake and ultimately the Chesapeake Bay.

DELAWARE

Springfield Township - $30,000 to design a variety of stormwater management best management practices at a 13-acre municipal property located in a very urbanized area. This project is seen as having an important education and outreach element because of the visibility of the location.

FAYETTE

Fayette County Conservation District - $25,351 to make no-till equipment available to farmers and reduce soil erosion and nutrient runoff through out the county.

Fayette County Conservation District - $29,593 to provide fund-raising technical assistance to the four county watershed groups to help them become viable, long-term sustainable organizations.

HUNTINGDON

Pennsylvania State University - $60,000 to study, assess and install agricultural best management practices on impaired reaches of county streams.

INDIANA

Indiana County Conservation District - $90,000 to install agricultural best management practices at various farms.

Blackleggs Creek Watershed Association - $24,000 to design ponds to treat the 360-gallons-per-minute deep-mine discharge in the watershed.
Evergreen Conservancy - $11,000 to fix acid mine discharge seep on the South Branch Bear Run with treatment ponds, 25 acres of site reclamation and 2000 feet of stream bank stabilization.

JEFFERSON

Headwaters Charitable Trust - $40,000 to design two passive treatment systems for acid mine discharge.

JUNIATA

Juniata County Conservation District - $37,800 for the third part of watershed assessment to identify nonpoint source pollution from land use.

Juniata County Conservation District - $50,000 to use five concentrated poultry operations to study aspects of manure management.

LANCASTER

Lancaster County Academy - $2,000 to replant wetland with native plants and reduce amount of invasive purple loose strife. The project also includes water quality testing and signage.

Lancaster County Conservation District - $3,700 to create and maintain a county-wide Web site, run by the conservation district, that all watershed and conservation groups in the county could share information on, and to purchase a "groundwater Karst model" for education programs.

Chiques Creek Watershed Alliance- $4,687 for purchasing additional water quality monitoring kits and signage for recently completed stream restoration project.

LAWRENCE

Lawrence County Conservation District - $60,000 to implement agricultural best management practices on Lawrence County farms.

Lawrence County Conservation District - $12,385 for a series of training sessions to encourage proactive implementation to minimize watershed impacts and determine community development objectives for Mahoning, Union and Pulaski townships.

LUZERNE

Luzerne Conservation District - $74,000 to help municipalities with surface and drainage improvements to dirt roads.

Wildlands Conservancy Inc. - $44,222 to design a passive treatment system to treat the Owl Hole mine discharge and reduce metals going into the Lehigh River.

LYCOMING

Lycoming College - $10,000 to support efforts of the Susquehanna River Heartland Coalition of Environmental Studies, a collaboration of local colleges and universities interested in learning about and stewardship opportunities with the river.

Lycoming College - $5,989 to update the current Natural Stream Channel Design guidelines written in March of 2003.

MONROE

Brodhead Watershed Association - $155,000 for a six-component project to protect Paradise Watershed.

MONTGOMERY

Montgomery County Community College - $5,020 to continue work on two existing stormwater retention basins and an 800-foot drainage channel transecting them both through the use of native vegetation and a barrier upstream of outfall for longer detention of water.

MULTIPLE COUNTIES

Blacklick Creek Watershed Association Inc. - $27,000 to drill nine borings and study a small shallow deep mine using wells and dye in order to correlate rainfall and the seven acid mine discharge seeps which produce a total of 51 gallons per minute.

Cambria County Conservation District - $50,000 to conduct an assessment of the 129-square-mile Chest Creek Watershed in Cambria and Clearfield counties and develop a restoration plan.

Capital Resource Conservation & Development Area Council Inc. - $300,000 to establish adoption of no-till agriculture production systems in the southcentral regional area.

Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc - $122,000 to implement a pilot precision dairy feeding program in the Susquehanna River basin in Pennsylvania over a two-year period. The program will enlist 40 dairy farmers and educate the farmers and their animal nutritionists, veterinarians and feed company representatives on precision feeding benefits and opportunities.

Ducks Unlimited Inc - $488,824 to conduct field visits and surveys, and to help with design and construction management of wetlands in the Ohio Basin.

Earth Force Inc., DBA Lake Erie-Allegheny Earth Force - $35,134 to educate adults, youth group leaders and children on nonpoint sources of pollution.

Huntingdon County Conservation District - $1,627 for a startup watershed organization.

Community Partnerships Resource Conservation and Development Council - $216,300 to promote the use of precision rotational grazing systems as best management practices to reduce sediment and phosphorus.

Moshannon Creek Watershed Coalition - $71,460 to address acid mind drainage in this central Pennsylvania creek. The headwaters of Moshannon Creek sustain a viable fishery. The downstream portion of Moshannon Creek supplies the city of Houtzdale with a drinking water supply.

Natural Lands Trust Inc. - $95,000 to target more effective conservation outreach and implementation on issues such as land use, storm water, source water protection and drinking water supply protection.

The Nature Conservancy- $108,864 to develop and use a new method to provide water managers with an instream flow assessment tool. The tool will provide users with the ability to assess and set limits on the degree to which instream flows can be altered depending on the designated uses to be protected and /or restored.

Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts Inc - $170,000 to provide engineering and soils assistance to groups developing or implementing a watershed assessment, watershed restoration plan or watershed protection plan.

Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts Inc. - $2,244,000 for administrative support and state cost-share funds to farmers enrolled in the state’s Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program in the 59 counties of the Susquehanna, Potomac and Ohio River watersheds.
Pennsylvania Environmental Council Inc. - $302,000 to deliver a water quality trading platform and registry design for the Chesapeake Bay Basin in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society - $250,000 to restore tree cover to a five-county area in southeastern Pennsylvania and to plant riparian buffers, helping to enhance water quality.

Pennsylvania State University - $59,000 to develop a specialized urban model to estimate nutrient and sediment load reduction for watershed implementation plans.

Pennsylvania State University - $116,000 to build a Pennsylvania-specific, eco-regional varying model of the relation between nutrients, algal biomass, and species composition in streams.

Pennsylvania State University - $76,886 to create algorithms that will reduce the amount of effort needed to conduct an analysis of stream nutrient loads.

Pennsylvania State University - $56,000 to develop and incorporate a pathogen loading estimation routine within a new urban model for nutrient and sediment loads. This tool will estimate loadings pathogens based upon available data rather than sampling.

Pennsylvania State University - $132,300 to study variability in phosphorus levels to determine healthy level of stream periphyton.

Pennsylvania State University - $51,189 to estimate the maximum quantities of water consumed by livestock and used for irrigation for vegetable, fruit, and specialty crop production in Pennsylvania.

Pocono Northeast Resource Conservation & Development Council - $140,000 to provide technical assistance and quality control to watershed groups throughout the state. The multi-disciplinary team offers watershed specific technical assistance, mentoring and quality assurance/quality control assistance.

Somerset Conservation District - $159,000 for agricultural landowners in a 15-county area of southwestern Pennsylvania and for the installation of prescribed grazing practices for 19 farms.

Pennsylvania Envirothon Inc. - $65,000 for this environmental education program that reaches over 15,000 high school students in more than 700 public and private schools in all of Pennsylvania's 67 counties.

Susquehanna County Conservation District - $104,082 to address nonpoint source pollution water quality impairments by implementing various best management practices on impaired streams, wetlands, and agricultural lands in the Meshoppen Creek and Tunkhannock Creek watersheds.

Turtle Creek Watershed Association Inc. - $115,000 to eliminate the discharge by draining the mine pool through a barrier into the Irwin mine pool. This will restore five miles of Turtle Creek by reducing acid and metals loading.

Villanova University - $96,340 to use a newly developed procedure to identify the source of fecal contamination in waters. The project would establish a database of 2000 possible sources.

Villanova University - $175,000 to advance evolving comprehensive stormwater management and faster development of public and private partnerships.

Wanashee Conservancy Inc. - $70,000 to develop a Watershed Plan for the Robinson Run Watershed.

Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation - $5,000 to support the South Sandy Creek Watershed Association’s development, its education and outreach efforts, and supply and equipment needs.

Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation - $166,000 to provide a means for watershed associations and other project sponsors to monitor their constructed passive treatment systems to determine how well they function and to help determine if any repairs, changes or replacements are needed.

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy - $180,000 to provide technical watershed related assistance to watershed groups, conservation districts, landowners, government officials and the general public.

Wildlands Conservancy Inc. - $65,262 to complete a characterization stream assessment, embeddedness and trout habitat assessment, develop a restoration/stabilization plan and acquire joint permit for construction of structures on the Saucon Creek and two unnamed tributaries totaling 2.61 miles in length.

NORTHAMPTON

Upper Mount Bethel Township - $73,500 to develop a watershed protection plan and related outreach/education activities to increase awareness of nonpoint source pollution in the Martins-Jacoby Watershed in Northeastern Northampton County.

Monocacy Creek Watershed Association Inc. - $69,595 to develop the Illick's Mill Park Restoration Master Plan, which will focus on establishing a riparian buffer, wetland aeration, native plantings, sediment transport, improved fish and aquatic habitat, a goose nuisance strategy and an educational outreach program.

Bushkill Stream Conservancy - $12,000 to design and plan a wetland passive treatment system at Sullivan Park. The project will help to reduce siltation and urban/suburban discharge to the Bushkill Creek.

NORTHUMBERLAND

Northumberland County Conservation District - $29,403 to address the Maysville borehole, which is ranked as the ninth significant discharge that impacts Shamokin Creek with acid mine drainage.

PHILADELPHIA

The Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education - $83,260 to plan, develop, test and fine tune an educational program that mirrors the Senior Environmental Corp's stream water quality monitoring and assessment program but specifically designed and crafted for students.

PIKE

Pike County Conservation District - $72,000 to provide financial and technical support to municipalities in Pike County. The project will support municipal officials in implementing land-use regulations that will contribute to the long-term conservation of water resources.

POTTER

Potter County Conservation District - $40,000 for a natural stream channel design project on the Middle Branch of the Genesee River.

SCHUYLKILL

Schuylkill County Conservation District - $60,000 to collect necessary data to develop a detailed engineering design, complete with cost estimates, for a passive treatment system on the No. 5 borehole and breach, which is the most significant source of metals to the Mahanoy Creek, a tributary to Susquehanna River.

TIOGA

Tioga County Concerned Citizens Committee Inc. - $40,000 to design and permit a series of passive alkalinity generating systems to treat acid mine discharge in Fall Brook, a tributary to the Tioga River.

Tioga County Concerned Citizens Committee Inc. - $45,600 to fund the design, permitting and bid packages for a passive treatment site in the Fall Brook Creek portion of the Tioga River.

Mansfield Municipal Authority - $25,000 to finalize a watershed management plan for the 23-square-mile Corey Creek Watershed.

UNION

Buffalo Creek Watershed Alliance of the Merrill Linn Land and Waterways Conservancy - $35,000 to study and design a passive treatment system for the remediation of seven miles of acid deposition impaired stream.

VENANGO

Venango Conservation District - $60,000 for design and implementation of sustainable best management practices to reduce nonpoint source pollutants such as sediment and nutrients.

WASHINGTON

Washington - $76,430 for a comprehensive stormwater assessment of the Catfish Creek subbasin within the Chartiers Creek Watershed.

WESTMORELAND

Pucketa and Chartiers Watershed Association - $41,300 to design a natural stream restoration for a severely eroded section of Chartiers Run in Lower Burrel.

Loyalhanna Watershed Association Inc. - $211,400 to use the mine drainage flow, which is presently polluting Saxman Run, to generate electricity. This power will be used by a treatment system already in place and another system scheduled to come online in the future. Any excess power will supply discreet systems at the Latrobe Sewage Treatment Plant.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a list by county of the $537,081 in 10 percent set-aside funds for state-federal mine reclamation project.

CAMBRIA

Windber - $51,511 for a stream-grouting project aimed at eliminating acid mine discharge at the Jandy Refuse Pile Reclamation Project in the Little Paint Creek Watershed.

ELK

Toby Creek Watershed Association Inc. - $452,999 to upgrade the existing Brandy Camp Treatment Plant by installing two additional clarifiers, a raw transfer pump and sub-control panel.

HUNTINGDON

Huntingdon County Conservation District - $32,571 to evaluate the failure of the Joller acid mine drainage treatment facilities and design a rehabilitation plan to address the needed repairs

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a list by county of the $1.1 million in Nonpoint Source Implementation Program Grants, funded through Section 319(h) of the Federal Clean Water Act:

BEDFORD

Broad Top Township - $8,000 to construct a passive system to treat mine discharge in Six Mile Run.

Broad Top Township - $182,000 for two separate systems to treat deep-mine seeps. Two separate treatment facilities will be used with settling ponds to capture flushed aluminum into Six Mile Run

Broad Top Township - $19,000 to construct three systems to treat mine discharge from three seeps in Six Mile Run.

Broad Top Township - $96,000 to design and construct limestone ponds and ditches to treat five different seeps totaling 22 gallons per minute in Shreves Run.

Broad Top Township - $10,000 to construct a system to treat a 15- to 20-gallon-per-minute deep-mine seep with a 600-ton limestone passive system.

BUCKS

Plumstead Township - $77,247 to modify an existing wet basin stormwater management facility, creating from it a smaller basin with an adjacent wetland of 29,000 square feet.

CENTRE

Centre County Conservation District - $100,000 to install best management practices on 24 farms in agriculturally impaired watersheds. Landowners will contribute a minimum of 20 percent.

CLEARFIELD

Clearfield County Conservation District - $9,564 for a complete assessment of the Hartshorn Run Watershed to help support restoration of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River.

Emigh Run/Lakeside Watershed Association Inc. - $99,000 to construct the Hubler Run 2 passive treatment system that will treat three discharges of acid mine drainage that emanate from abandoned drift mines in the watershed.

HUNTINGDON

Huntingdon County Conservation District - $29,000 to add limestone to Hartman Run, stabilize the 750-foot access road, construct a stream crossing, riprap a 75-foot stream bank, reclaim small spoil piles eroding into the stream and replant the riparian zone.

LANCASTER

Paradise Sportsmen’s Association - $158,485 for stabilization and restoration techniques along 3,725 linear feet of Pequea Creek.

LUZERNE

Luzerne Conservation District - $48,900 for a watershed and lake assessment for Frances Slo***** Lake. The assessment will be used to prepare a comprehensive management plan.

MONTOUR

Montour County Conservation District - $22,800 to augment a previous grant for construction of a natural design stream restoration.

SCHUYLKILL

Schuylkill County Conservation District - $200,000 for the purchase and installation of limestone media to complete the Audenreid Mine Tunnel Discharge project.

UNION

SEDA-Council of Governments - $45,000 to support construction of an innovative integrated stormwater management system in the proposed Energy Resource Center. Funding will be used for a green roof, porous paved parking and native plants in bioswales.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a list by county of the $1.6 million from the federal Office of Surface Mining Title IV grants:

ALLEGHENY

Allegheny Land Trust - $650,955 to complete the design and construct a passive treatment system to treat high volume, alkaline, iron acid mine drainage. The iron precipitate will be recovered and sold to cover long-term operation and maintenance costs.

South Fayette Conservation Group - $329,249 to seal mine entries contributing to acid mine discharge to Miller Run, re-establish Fishing Run to its approximate historical channel, eliminate dangerous highwalls in the area and demolish hazardous abandoned mine structures.

INDIANA

Blacklick Creek Watershed Association - $93,562 to fund the reconstruction and redesign of the Yellow Creek Phase 2C Passive Treatment System.

JEFFERSON

Jefferson County Conservation District - $82,555 for a feasibility study and development of a conceptual design to treat an abandoned mine discharge to Sugar Camp Run so the water can be used for a municipal water supply.

SCHUYLKILL

Pottsville - $422,510 for Phase IV of a project to reclaim dangerous abandoned mine land features as a result of subsidence in the city.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is a list by county of the $1.9 million in innovation grants for the beneficial use of acid mine discharge to clean state waterways:

BUTLER

Stream Restoration Inc. - $205,957 to evaluate the process and costs of recovering materials from acid mine discharge; determine the consistency of the raw material; pilot scale processing of recovered material; identify product demand; and identify future design improvements to decrease operation, maintenance and implementation.

ELK

North Central PA Regional Planning and Development Commission - $74,050 to determine the feasibility of use of the sludge from the Brandy Camp treatment plant to manufacture powdered metals components.

GREENE

Concurrent Technologies Corp. - $736,651 for a two-phase enhanced metals recovery program using iron derived from acid mine discharge as a raw material to produce a novel corrosion inhibitor.

INDIANA

Western PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation - $299,355 to study the bacteria and provide several carbon sources to determine which products produce the greatest SRB activity.

MULTIPLE COUNTIES

Western PA Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation - $189,813 to optimize the design and operation of self-flushing limestone systems for mine drainage treatment in Butler and Clarion counties.

Western PA coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation - $279,221 for five pilot-scale demonstrations at different locations treating a variety of acid mine discharge in Lackawanna, Northumberland, Jefferson, Fayette and Westmoreland counties.
WESTMORELAND

Saint Vincent College - $111,130 to test the ability of iron oxide sludges to compete with Ferric Chloride and Alum as a medium for removing phosphorous from municipal wastewater treatment plants.
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GOVERNOR RENDELL SAYS PA INVESTING IN THE FUTURE WITH ENVIRONMENTAL GRANTS; SAFEGUARDING COMMUNITIES,
ATTRACTING BUSINESS INVESTMENT
140 Critical Projects in 50 Counties First to Receive Funding

HARRISBURG - Nov. 2, 2005-- Governor Edward G. Rendell today said Pennsylvania is taking aggressive steps to clean up its rivers and streams, improve parks, revitalize abandoned industrial sites and protect open space and preserve farmland

The Governor announced an investment of $65 million in environmental projects that will help scores of Pennsylvania communities.

Additionally, Governor Rendell said all 67 counties will now be able to apply for $90 million, allocated on a county-by-county basis, for eligible environmental projects. Information on how to apply is going directly to counties today, the Governor added.

“With these projects we deliver on our promise to voters, who approved a $625 million bond issue in May, to make Pennsylvania healthier, a better place to live and more competitive in attracting and supporting business investment,” Governor Rendell said. “In just three months since we reached a final agreement with the legislature, we have our first list of projects. No state is doing more to protect its quality of life or to safeguard tomorrow.”

“Pennsylvania is making an investment in its future and our families, communities and businesses will all share the benefits,” Governor Rendell said. “With this funding we will get 140 critical projects in 50 counties underway, projects that have languished for years because we lacked the money. This is good news for all Pennsylvanians.”

The Governor added that the first installment of $65 million in grants under Growing Greener II brings to fruition more than a year of aggressive efforts to address some of the state’s most pressing environmental problems and help the state win the race for revitalized communities, new business and job creation.

Governor Rendell said the projects fall into various categories including:
• $31.5 million to upgrade state parks and improve state forests
• $14 million to clean up acid mine drainage and other water quality improvements (watershed grants)
• $9.7 million to clean former industrial sites (brownfields)
• $3 million to upgrade our water and sewer infrastructure
• $3.7 million for open space protection
• $2.2 million to use mine water as an economic resource
• $700,000 to remove impacts from dams

Nearly one-quarter of the grants will be used to clean up the state’s rivers and streams, the Governor said. The largest investment, $7.7 million, is going to conservation districts that administer the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program, which pays farmers to take land along streams out of production to help decrease agricultural related run-off into major waterways that feed into the Chesapeake Bay, Governor Rendell added.

“With these resources we can move faster to clear polluted and abandoned industrial sites so we can attract new businesses and new jobs,” Governor Rendell said.

The Governor noted that this is not the only planned announcement of environmental grants. He said additional Open Space grants, administered by the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources will be announced this winter. The Department of Environmental Protection also will soon open its round of Growing Greener I and Growing Greener II grants.

And the Department of Agriculture is working with counties to identify state funds needed to match county funds for farmland preservation grants. That announcement is expected in the spring, the Governor said.

Voters in May approved a $625 million bond issue to clean up rivers and streams; protect natural areas, open spaces and working farms; and shore up key programs to improve quality of life and revitalize communities across the commonwealth.

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The Rendell Administration is committed to creating a first-rate public education system, protecting our most vulnerable citizens and continuing economic investment to support our communities and businesses. To find out more about Governor Rendell's initiatives and to sign up for his weekly newsletter, visit his Web site at: www.governor.state.pa.us.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The list of projects in 50 counties is attached.

GROWING GREENER II PROJECT LIST
COUNTY LISTING, FUNDING, PROJECT NAME AND DESCRIPTION

Allegheny

Allegheny County Department of Parks - $270,027 to construct a treatment facility to treat three acid mine drainage discharges. This Phase II project will decrease loading to Piersons Run, which is a tributary to Turtle Creek.

Big River Development - $759,066 for the former Armstrong Cork factory in Pittsburgh

Lincoln/Larimer - $100,000 for Lincoln/Larimer neighborhood redevelopment in Pittsburgh.

Montour Run Watershed Association - $146,984 to design and construct a passive treatment system to treat the Wilson School discharge (SFMD7) in the Montour Run Watershed. The system will remove 9,000 pounds per year of acidity and 1,000 pounds per year of metals from the South Fork Montour Run.

Progress Street Partners - $251,250 to convert the former Heinz plant to lofts in Robinson Township.

Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh - $17,835 for the former trolley shop in Pittsburgh.

Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh - $116,775 for the Federal North Redevelopment project in this historic neighborhood.

Allegheny/Washington

Property Manager James Wilharm of Alliance Realty Management- $400,000 for the former Montour railroad right-of-way in Allegheny and Washington counties.

Armstrong

Roaring Run Watershed Association - $5,260 to repair 200 feet of riparian buffer on both sides of Roaring Run. Replacing the limestone rip-rap will protect the stream banks from further damage, as well as repair the damage caused by major storms to the original 2004 Growing Greener project.

Bedford

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy - $90,000 for acquisition of approximately 101 acres along Silver Mills Road in Mann Township for open space and watershed protection.

Berks

Greater Berks Development - $131,250 to remediate Goggle Works, site of a former manufacturing plant in Reading.

Project Development Inc. - $500,000 to remove the deteriorating Felix Dam and restore the river channel in Bern Township.

Blair

Blair County Conservation District - $97,021 to design and install contour ditches and rock channels to repair a 29-acre bond forfeiture site that is poorly reclaimed and eroding acid sediment into Sugar Run. The main benefit will be to eliminate the severe erosion of acid spoil into Sugar Run, which was estimated to be 57 tons of acidity per year.

Lexington Mall Partners - $750,000 to rehabilitate Altoona Works, a former railroad plant site in Altoona.

Bradford

Canton Township - $47,000 to stabilize approximately 1,500 feet of eroding stream bank by cutting back banks and revegetating; complete a Triage Environmental Assessment of second through fourth order streams in the Main Stem and South Branch subwatersheds.

Sylvania Borough - $62,500 to fund design, permitting and construction of the stabilization of approximately 18,000 feet of eroding stream banks on two tributaries to Sugar Creek identified as priorities in the watershed assessment. Stream stabilization will be accomplished by regrading and revegetating stream banks and providing rock-toe stabilization.

Wysox Creek Watershed Association - $101,800 for construction of approximately 8,800 feet of a designed and permitted NSCD project on Johnson Creek. This is a continuation of a previously funded project and construction will aid in maintaining stability. The project also includes funding for design and permitting of a second stream restoration project on Trout Stream, which is on the federal impaired waterways list. Both projects were identified as priorities in the Wysox Creek Watershed Assessment and Restoration Plan.

Bucks

Bucks County Conservation District - $20,639 to stabilize and restore eroded 800 feet of stream bank on Curl's Run, a tributary to Pidcock Creek, using bioengineering techniques and best management practices; and $19,300 for a four-part project: stabilize 200 feet of eroding stream bank; retrofit two detention basins; evaluate storm water catch basin inserts; and obtain supplemental stream data for oil and grease.

Lower Makefield Township - $1.49 million (two grants) at Westinghouse die plant for a recreation park along Delaware Canal.

Milford Township - $100,000 for acquisition of a conservation easement on approximately 16 acres within Unami Forest, off Wright Road, for open space and critical habitat protection.

Nockamixon State Park - $1.5 million to rehabilitate a sewage collection system in Nockamixon State Park by relining and replacing approximately 10 miles of sewer line.

West Rockhill Township - $100,000 for acquisition of a conservation easement on approximately 12 acres along Twin Lows Road for open space and watershed protection; $45,000 for acquisition of a conservation easement on approximately five acres off Esten Road for open space and watershed protection; and $195,000 for acquisition of a conservation easement on approximately 48 acres off Thousand Acre Road for open space and watershed protection.

Butler

CDC Environmental Chemcial - $138,750 for work on Shearer Roadat a former chemical plant site in Butler Township.

Stream Restoration Inc. - $5,801 for the Jennings Environmental Education Center acid mine drainage treatment facilities in Brady Township.

Cambria

Cambria County Conservation District - $77,906 to improve fish and wildlife habitat within a diked flood control project. Terraces and rock barbs will be installed along approximately 2,400 feet of stream channel to narrow a shallow, over-wide channel and create a meandering pattern within the flood control project area. This is the second phase of a two-phase project.

Prince Gallitizin State Park - $700,000 for a complete rehabilitation of a 120,000-gallons-per-day sewage treatment plant at Prince Gallitizin State Park.

Cameron

Portage - $350,000 to rehabilitate a spring-fed water system at Sizerville State Park.

Carbon

Hickory Run State Park - $1 million for a complete rehabilitation of a 33,000-gallons-per-day sewage treatment plant at the park; and $295,000 to re-roof selective buildings in the group camps at the park.

Centre

Pennsylvania State University - $169,420 to reconnect Slab Cabin Run to its wetland floodplain. Slab Cabin Run has been identified as impaired due to acid mine drainage. Reconnection to Millbrook Marsh will provide pollutant removal during rain and improve the functionality of Millbrook Marsh as a bio-retention wetland. This project is in line with the Millbrook Marsh Protection and Management Plan and is in line with the strategic goals of the Spring Creek Watershed Community. The project integrates storm water management and nutrient reduction.

Poe Valley State Park - $1.5 million to replace existing beach house and campground pit latrine at Poe Valley State Park with restrooms that have flush toilets and showers. This project is to be connected to the DGS project for water and sewage.

Chester

Marsh Creek State Park - $1.3 million for complete rehabilitation of the pool at Marsh Creek State Park, including the filtration building.

Pennsbury Township - $231,900 for acquisition of a conservation easement on approximately 59 acres off Hickory and Hillendale Roads for open space preservation.

Phoenixville Borough - $467,500 for acquisition of approximately 7 acres at the southeast corner of Fillmore and Franklin Streets for expansion of existing Reservoir Park to provide additional athletic fields and open space.

West Caln Township - $550,000 for acquisition of 93 acres along Barren Hills Ridge for open space and watershed protection to create greenway linkages and to expand recreation opportunities.

Clarion

Forest District 8 - $1.5 million to rehabilitate and add on to an existing district office in Forest District 8.

Knox Township - $97,601 for a passive treatment system to treat two high aluminum abandoned mine discharges in the Licking Creek Watershed Assessment.

Clearfield

Clearfield County Conservation District - $49,977 to clean up Long Run, a tributary to Clearfield Creek, which is a major tributary to the West Branch of the Susquehanna River. Most of the Long Run watershed is affected by acid mine drainage. This grant funds the design, permitting and construction of four diversion wells to raise alkalinity to restore the four miles of stream; $395,880 for the construction of a passive treatment system involving a combination of a vertical flow pond, settling basin and aerobic wetland. This is the first acid mine drainage construction project in the overall restoration plan for Morgan Run; and $267,500 for the construction of a passive treatment system called “Mr. Frog” that involves a combination of a vertical flow pond, settling pond and aerobic wetland. This is the second acid mine drainage construction project in the overall Morgan Run watershed restoration plan. This system will restore 500 feet of an unnamed tributary and 1.5 miles of Morgan Run.

Clearfield County Solid Waste Authority - $25,000 for clean up one of nine illegal dump sites identified in the county that directly threaten surface and/or ground water. The site is in Pike Township and is approximately 8,000 square feet in size. It is located in the headwaters of Hogback Run, a cold water fishery and tributary to the West Branch.

Emigh Run/Lakeside Watershed Association Inc. - $122,260 for the relocation of the headwaters of Emigh Run that flow through deep mine refuse waste. The mine refuse was deposited directly into the stream by an abandoned deep mine operation. The stream relocation will divert stream flow away from the acid spoil piles using natural stream design techniques.

Mosquito Creek Sportsment’s Association Inc. - $143,500 for construction of two innovative alkaline-addition technologies using limestone sand to mitigate the effects of acid deposition in the Mosquito Creek watershed. One project will create a high-flow buffering channel paralleling Gifford Run to neutralize episodic acidification occurring during high-flow events without placing limestone sand directly in the stream channel. The second project will create a vertical flow limestone bed on Lost Run to test the efficiency of using limestone sand in vertical flow wetlands to eliminate the need for compost. Both of these projects are part of the Mosquito Creek Progressive Restoration Plan.

Parker Dam State Park - $600,000 to replace a campground restroom with a new shower house at the Huston Township park.

Clinton

Kettle Creek State Park - $1.3 million to construct a shower house and sewage system at lower campground at Leidy park.

Columbia

Columbia County Conservation District - $68,750 to repair an existing natural channel design project at the Kocher Memorial Park --- a handicapped accessible nature park. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service designed and constructed this project under a DEP Growing Greener Grant in 2000. Then, 1,800 linear feet of bed and bank were stabilized and the nature park was subsequently constructed with another Growing Greener Grant via DCNR. The project was one of the earliest natural stream channel designs in Pennsylvania and was considered a demonstration to encourage similar efforts in the commonwealth. In the past five years, several severe storms have impacted the structural integrity of rock veins and created bed aggregation contributing to continual degradation of the banks. The repair is to re-grade the banks and repair/replace the structures to attain stability and sediment transport.

Forest District 20 - $600,000 to construct a parking lot and access area at state Route 42 in Forest District 20.

Crawford

Crawford County Conservation District - $96,299 to implement a natural stream channel design project on a tributary to Woodcock Creek. The project will rehabilitate 2,600 linear feet of stream bank.

Cumberland

Kings Gap Environmental Education Center - $750,000 to repave the main road to the center.

Dauphin

Capital Region Economic Development Corp. and Bethlehem Steel - $1 million to rehabilitate ISG Bethlehem, the former USX steel mill site.

Harrisburg - $150,000 for improvements to Wildwood Lake in Dauphin County.

Steelton - $246,200 to reclaim and restore the Steel Canal as part of the Steel Canal Restoration project.

Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority - $750,000 to rehabilitate the Crawford Station brownfield, a former power plant.

Washington Township Authority - $168,967 to update a wetland area. Washington Township in Dauphin County is the home of the largest operational constructed wetland treatment system for wastewater treatment in the state. The facility is currently under construction as part of a two-part project. This money funds Phase II, which comprises cleaning all accumulated solids and making other design changes.

West Hanover Township Water and Sewer Authority - $500,000 for sewer upgrades. The West Hanover Township Water & Sewer Authority owns and operates a 780,000-gallon-per-day wastewater treatment plant serving West Hanover Township. The plant is required to remover organics, suspended solids, ammonia-nitrogen, and phosphorus from the wastewater prior to discharging the treated effluent to a tributary of the Manada Creek. The Authority has chosen to replace the post-lime addition process with a vermicomposting process. Vermicomposting is a sustainable process that uses earthworms in a raised bed reactor to further treat the biosolids to a level that satisfies DEP criteria for “exceptional quality” without the addition of chemicals and the odors associated with the post-lime treatment process, or the energy input required by a heat-drying process.

Wiconisco Township - $69,900 to install a new technology for wastewater treatment plant. This technology uses two floating vegetative islands which regulates wastewater flow and treats nutrients by uptaking them through the plant roots and bacteria attached to the roots which are all suspended in the wastewater column.

Erie

Millcreek Township School District - $400,000 to install approximately 15,000 square feet of porous pavement, a rainwater harvesting system to collect storm water for use in non-potable water applications (toilets), a one-quarter-acre wetland and a 2,000 square-foot green roof as part of the J.S. Wilson Middle School green building project.

Presque Isle State Park - $1.8 million to rehabilitate Marina Pond Bridge and replace Misery Bay Bridge at Presque Isle State Park.

Fayette

Trout Unlimited, Chestnut Ridge Chapter - $107,267 to complete construction of a passive treatment system that will restore four miles of a high-quality stream.

Ohiopyle State Park - $545,950 for structural steel and bearing repairs to Ferncliff High Bridge (bike trail) at the park.

Franklin

Franklin County Conservation District - $22,988 for stream bank fencing on the Conococheague Creek and Little Cove Creek Stream.

Shippensburg - $500,000 to implement a five-stage biological nutrient removal treatment process at the Shippensburg waste water treatment plant. In order to implement this new treatment process, a new 682,000-gallon tank will need to be constructed to augment an existing activated sludge tank. There will also be a substantial amount of new treatment equipment installed, including submersible mixers, blowers equipped with variable frequency drives, fine bubble diffusers and air piping, internal recycle pumps, and instrumentation and control equipment.

Washington Township - $82,800 for acquisition of approximately four acres off state Route 16 and adjacent to existing Happel's Meadow for open space.

Waynesboro Borough - $183,500 for acquisition of approximately four acres off state Route 316 for open space and passive recreation.

Greene

Ryerson Station State Park - $1 million for selective silt removal from a drained impoundment at the dam at the park.

Huntingdon

Forest District 5 - $1.5 million to rehabilitate an existing district office in Forest District 5.

Huntingdon County Conservation District - $2,929 to clean up four or more dump sites identified in a previous grant.

Indiana

Blackleggs Creek Watershed Association - $44,000 to add 2,000 tons of limestone to their existing limestone pond and to raise the water level another 1.5 feet to the maximum elevation in order to create more detention time and to generate more alkalinity. These ponds are too small, and room must be fully utilized to increase the detention time of the existing system.

Lackawanna

Archbald Borough - $525,000 to reclaim approximately 115 acres of abandoned mine lands and make safe about 24 mine openings, reducing the amount of surface water entering the underground deep mines, thereby reducing the amount of acid mine drainage flowing into the Lackawanna River. The project is part of restoration efforts for future economic development as part of the Valley View Business Park.

Lackawanna State Forest - $1 million for a new office in addition to the district office in Lackawanna State Forest.

Lancaster

Elizabethtown College - $40,100 to expand innovative storm water best management practices on campus as was done in earlier round of Growing Greener.

Lancaster Area Sewer Authority - $500,000 for sewer upgrades. The Lancaster Area Sewer Authority seeks to upgrade the activated sludge aeration system at its Susquehanna plant. The basic goals of this project are to upgrade and replace the diffuser, optimize the aeration process with additional blowers with those of the proper size, and create anoxic zones to obtain a certain degree of dentrification for the existing flows to the facility. The project will decrease nutrient load discharged to the Susquehanna River and decrease energy demands at the facility.

Lancaster County Conservancy - $113,800 to the Lancaster Conservancy for acquisition of approximately 28 acres off Tucquan Glen Road, adjacent to Lancaster County Conservancy's Tucquan Glen Preserve for open space and habitat protection; and $150,000 to the Lancaster County Conservancy for acquisition of approximately 26 acres along the Susquehanna River and River Road for greenway and open space protection.

Lebanon

Bethel Township - $375,000 for acquisition of approximately 50 acres off of Sherwin Williams Drive for passive recreation and open space.

Lebanon Valley Conservancy - $83,200 to the Lebanon Valley Conservancy for acquisition of approximately 101 acres near Camp Kiwanis Road for greenway and habitat protection.

Willows Senior Apartments - $712,278 for Willows Senior Apartments at a former steel mill site.

Lehigh

Lehigh County Conservation District - $36,950 to restore 1,200 linear feet of a tributary to the Saucon Creek to improve fish habitat and reduce siltation pollution to the impaired Saucon Creek.

T-GM Ventures - $27,750 for work at 128-34 N. Eighth St. to convert a warehouse to condominiums and townhouses.

Luzerne

Butler Township - $61,227 to create a sediment retention system on a portion of Oley Creek.

Earth Conservancy - $248,000 to continue the reclamation of a large tract of mine-scarred land (Preston/Huber Bank Reclamation), transforming unusable land into recreational areas and residential development.

Luzerne County Conservation District - $56,528 to establish a program to restore eroded sections of stream bank.

Pyrah Corp. - $50,000 for Sea Isle Sportswear, a former clothing plant.

Ricketts Glen State Park - $2.4 million for park development at the park. The work includes replacing a bathhouse and two comfort stations in beach, day-use, and organized group tent areas, including utilities; and developing trailhead parking, comfort stations and trails at the Lake Rose area.

Mercer

Hermitage - $39,051 for Indian Run stream restoration. The city is concerned with the loss of property and potential safety issues with the degraded stream and has committed to paying for phase one data collection, analysis, design and permitting. This funding finances construction of the stream restoration to eliminate approximately 6,700 cubic feet of nonpoint source sediment pollution from the stream bank erosion, restore the aquatic habitat to enhance the biologic diversity of the stream, create a riparian buffer zone and produce short- and long-term educational experiences for Hermitage school students.

West Middlesex - $90,000 for Hogback Run channel improvements. Last year's numerous extraordinary storms badly affected this section of stream causing nonpoint source erosion, flooding and safety concerns.

Winner Development - $1.1445 million for the Westinghouse plant, a former electric transformer manufacturing site.

Monroe

Middle Smithfield Township - $357,000 to fund the conversion of the existing wastewater treatment plant to new technology to treat the existing 22,000 gallons per day. The township authority will install a double ditch process to allow automated and complete control, ensuring essentially a continuous flow. The system does not require secondary clarifiers or return sludge pumping.

Stroud Township - $250,000 for acquisition of the Glen Brook Golf Course consisting of approximately 221 acres along Hickory Valley Road and Glenbrook Road for continued use of active recreation and open space preservation.

Montgomery

American Littoral Society = Delaware Riverkeeper Network - $39,200 to plan the removal/modification of an upstream dam and water intake structure to allow fish passage to upstream areas. Cross vanes and other structures would be used to stabilize the stream.

Center for Sustainable Communities - $212,220 for sustainable storm water work. The Center for Sustainable Communities and the Villanova University's Urban Storm Water Partnership are combining resources to work on this project. The Initiative is an integrated program involving the construction of demonstration best management practices, research to describe their effectiveness and outreach to promote improved storm water management. The Growing Greener funds would be used to construct several demonstration best management practices on the property of the Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust.

Montgomery County Conservation District - $23,504 to enhance wetland areas with native plantings, removing invasive plants and restoring floodplain. In the storm water detention basin, remove low-flow concrete channel and replace with meadows mixes. Work includes restoring eroded storm swale, now a gully, into bioretention.

Schwenksville Borough - $135,000 for acquisition of approximately three acres at the intersection of Centennial Street and Forest Lane for development of a park.

Spring-Ford Area School District - $10,215 to create planted buffer zones around two drainage swales and create a rain-garder at the drainage basin above the swales. As part of this project, the community will be educated on best management practices, nonpoint source pollution and overall watershed health.

Trout Unlimited, Southeast Montgomery County Chapter 468 - $50,000 to remove a dam on the main stem of the Pennypack Creek. Benefits would be to restore a more natural dynamic in terms of hydrology and sediment transport; improve aquatic and riparian habitats; and restore fish passage.

Northumberland

Northumberland County Conservation District - $12,080 to stabilize and plant a riparian buffer for a high-priority erosion site in the watershed. The group wants to demonstrate "solutions" to assist local landowners on what can be done on their properties. This would be the first "on the ground" project for this group.

Shikellamy State Park - $740,000 to purchase two, new, inflatable dam bags at the park to replace those damaged in Ivan storm; and $260,000 to construct a temporary causeway and install two, new, inflatable dam bags at the park.

Perry

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy - $426,000 for the acquisition of approximately 656 acres for open space, natural resource and watershed protection.

Philadelphia

Friends Center Corp. - $242,726 to incorporate a variety of innovative storm water best management practices into their ongoing campus buildings and site renovations. Best management practices proposed include a 10,000-square-foot green roof system, rainwater cistern storage system and small bioretention system at their campus property located in downtown Philadelphia.

Haines Eastburn Stenton - $727,500 for neighborhood redevelopment in Philadelphia.

Mount Airy - $11,512 for neighborhood redevelopment.

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society - $92,189 for two separate projects: One project is a renovation of a schoolyard at a Philadelphia public school; and the other is a new urban park on a square block in an area of newly constructed residential infill. Both projects would capture and infiltrate storm water by retrofitting existing urban landscapes that are 100 percent impervious. Both projects also are in combined sewer areas.

Woodlands 58, LLC - $250,549 for Abrams Metals, a scrap yard to remediation and redevelopment project.

Pike

Pomised Land State Park - $75,000 to construct a 10-kilowatt wind turbine at the park office; and $2.6 million to construct water and sewerage systems at the park to service Pickeral Point and Deerfield Campgrounds, complete with flush comfort/ shower facilities.

Potter

Lyman Run State Park - $183,000 to build piers for future spillway bridge at Lyman Run State Park.

Potter County - $200,000 for half of the non-federal share of the rehabilitation of North Fork Dam, a flood-control facility.

Schuylkill

CANDO Inc. - $2.22 million to build a water treatment plant to treat 1 million gallons daily from the Green Mountain Tunnel and sell the water to the Humbolt Industrial Park. The industrial park is in need of an additional one mgd of water to allow for expansion and the potential creation of 4,800 jobs.

Mahanoy City Sewer Authority - $428,600 for the installation of a Hydro International Grit King System for grit and grease removal as part of the Mahanoy City Sewer Authority $3 million in planned improvements. The system would be the first of its kind in the northeast region.

Weiser State Forest - $500,000 to renovate the existing Haldeman House for office and meeting facilities.

Somerset

Laurel Hill State Park - $1.6 million to replace beach bathhouse/concession, comfort stations and Group Camp 1 Bathhouse at Laurel Hill State Park.

Sullivan

Forest District 20 - $3 million to construct a new district forest office near Laporte.

Tioga

Hills Creek State Park - $500,000 to replace pit latrine at campground with new flush facility with showers at Hills Creek State Park.

Leonard Harrison State Park - $1.2 million to replace the maintenance building, campground pit latrine and two pit latrines at overlook at the park. Campground restroom to have showers and all others are to be flush and connected into the DGS sanitary project for water and sewage.

Lycoming Creek Watershed Association - $29,500 to stabilize 260 feet of highly erosive stream bank with an estimated soil loss of more than 21 tons. The area will be graded to decrease the bank angles and toe of slope. Rip rap protection will be installed as well as riparian plantings.

Tioga County Conservation District - $19,485 to reduce sediment pollution by stabilizing a 300-foot reach of Catlin Hollow with vertical bank heights up to 18 feet. The stream bank will be stabilized in such a way that the stream will have access to its floodplain, and a riparian buffer will be established; and $14,616 to stabilize approximately 425 feet of stream through a combination of re-grading vertical banks and installation of log veins and rip rap in an effort to protect the toe of the slope until vegetation is established. Planting of a dense buffer is a major component of the project.

Union

Union County Conservation District - $44,029 to provide the balance of funds needed to complete construction on a natural channel design project.

Venango

Venango County Conservation District - $87,391 to plug 10 oil wells in Scrubgrass Creek Watershed to restore viability and sustainability to this cold water stream.

Washington

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy - $20,200 for acquisition of approximately 64 acres for open space and natural resource protection.

Wayne

Salem Township - $79,600 for payment for the acquisition of approximately 15 acres in the eastern corner of the township for a recreation complex including athletic fields and supporting facilities.

Westmoreland

Donegal Township - $44,035 to protect Four Mile Run by implementing controls on a dirt and gravel road. The project will stabilize the road in order to prevent large amounts of sediment from entering the receiving stream during rain events.

Mount Pleasant Borough - $15,000 for a stream bank stabilization project in a municipal park. A total of 890 feet of stream bank along Shupe Run and unnamed tributary within the Jacob's Creek Watershed will be restored using a combination of vegetative bioengineering, structural enhancement and riparian buffer plantings to decrease sediment loading to the stream.

North Huntingdon Township - $10,708 for construction of stream bank stabilization structures and a riparian buffer along Tinkers Run.

Saint Vincent College - $30,162 to finance modifications and improvements to repair and maintain the operation of the Monastery Run improvement project. Work includes repairs to an earthen dike, repair of a walkway, repair of bank erosion, and the installation of fencing to prevent muskrat damage and erosion.

Trout Unlimited, Forbes Trail Chapter - $11,014 to address mine discharge in Rock Run by implementing limestone sand dosing in the headwaters. The limestone will slowly dissolve and/or be carried down the stream to help combat a chronic acidification problem in the stream due to inadequate natural buffering.

Westmoreland Conservation District - $97,442 for a nature park and Donohoe Creek protection. The Westmoreland Conservation District proposes to address storm water problems that are causing degradation to an unnamed tributary within the Sewickley Creek Watershed. Three local businesses have agreed to improve the quality and reduce the quantity of their runoff by incorporating new innovative storm water best-management practices.

Wyoming

Mehoopany Creek Watershed Association - $318,773 for natural stream design on a portion of Mehoopany Creek. The assessment and design have been completed.

York

Northeastern York County Sewer Authority - $500,000 to upgrade the existing Mount Wolf Wastewater Treatment Plant from a trickling filter process to a Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor process. The upgrade would allow the existing facility to construct mechanisms to meet the more stringent effluent limits being implemented by the Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategy.

York Butterfly LP - $707,625 for the Caterpillar plant, a former manufacturing plant.

York Redevelopment Authority - $112,500 for a brownfield project to convert the Graybill Building, a historic building, to a city market.

MULTIPLE COUNTIES

Berks/Bucks/Carbon/Chester/Luzerne/Montgomery/Schuylkill Counties

Park Region 4 - $1.2 million to rehabilitate 12 water tanks in State Park Region 4.

Crawford/Venango Counties

French Creek Project of the Pennsylvania Environmental Council - $163,300 to initiate alternative storm water best management practices in the French Creek watershed in Crawford and Venango counties. The project will design and construct 10 to 15 alternative storm water projects, which will significantly decrease the amount of storm water discharged directly into French Creek. The BMP's will also be used as demonstration sites for outreach.

Western Pennsylvania Conservancy - $87,999 to conduct education workshops and riparian restoration projects using minor mechanical engineering and vegetative stabilization on private, non-agricultural properties in four priority subwatersheds of the French Creek basin, specifically Conneautee Creek, LeBeouf Creek, West Branch French Creek and Conneaut Outlet.

Statewide

Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts - $7,779,480 to the for farmers enrolled in Pennsylvania’s Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) in the 59 counties of the Susquehanna, Potomac and Ohio River Watersheds. The money will enable farmers to implement best management practices on their farms to reduce runoff nonpoint source pollution. Nearly all of Pennsylvania is enrolled in CREP except the eight counties in the Delaware River watershed. The commonwealth’s program is the nation’s largest.

Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation - $350,000 to provide a means for quick payment of funds needed for emergency repair of previously funded Growing Greener restoration projects. WPCAMR will act as an agent to provide quick pass-through of funds.

CONTACTS:

Kate Philips (717) 783-1116
Kurt Knaus (DEP) - (717) 787-1323
Christina Novak (DCNR) - (717) 772-9101


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