Wednesday, October 5, 2022

DEP Provides PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Healthy Waters Partnership Update

On October 5, the Department of Environmental Protection provided an update on the
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan efforts in its latest Healthy Waters Partnership newsletter.  Articles include--

-- DEP Forming General Permit PAG-13 Workgroup

-- DCNR Hires 5 New Regional Watershed Forestry Specialists

-- Alliance For Chesapeake Bay 24-Hour Tree Planting Oct. 28-29

-- DEP, Partners Showcase Stream Restoration Projects In Lancaster County

-- 2023 Countywide Action Plan Implementation Grant Round Announced

-- NFWF Innovative Nutrient & Sediment Reduction Grants Program Open

-- DCNR Special Fall Grant Round Open - Community & Watershed Forestry

-- PACD Accepting Applications For New Round Of CREP Mini-Grants

-- DEP Chesapeake Bay Office Is Now The Bureau Of Watershed Restoration & Nonpoint Source Management

-- And much more….

The newsletter also includes updates from Adams, Columbia, Dauphin, Lancaster, Montour, Susquehanna counties.

Click Here to read the entire newsletter.

Visit DEP’s Chesapeake Bay Watershed webpage to learn more about cleaning up rivers and streams in Pennsylvania's portion of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.  Click Here to sign up for regular updates on Pennsylvania’s progress.

How Clean Is Your Stream?

Check DEP’s 2022 Water Quality Report to find out how clean streams are near you.

Related Articles This Week:

-- Chesapeake Bay Foundation 2022 State Of The Chesapeake Blueprint Report Finds Restoration Efforts Are Off Track  [PaEN]

-- EPA: Most States, Including Pennsylvania, Did Not Meet 2-Year Chesapeake Bay Cleanup Milestones [PaEN]

-- Register Now For NFWF Virtual Chesapeake Bay Agricultural Networking Forum & Listening Sessions Starting Nov. 8  [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal: Chesapeake Bay States To Get Millions For Climate-Smart Farm Practices -- By Ad Crable, Chesapeake Bay Journal  [PaEN]

-- Land Trust Alliance Magazine Highlights Efforts Along PA's Kittatinny Ridge To Document The Economic Benefits Of Land Conservation - By Marina Shauffler [PaEN]

[Posted: October 5, 2022]  PA Environment Digest

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