Friday, January 11, 2019

UPDATED: PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Planning Steering Committee Meets Jan. 16

The PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Planning Steering Committee is scheduled to meet on January 16 to hear updates from two of the counties involved in the County Clean Water Planning Pilot Project and a presentation from the Penn State Agriculture and Environment Center on more Farm Survey results.
Lancaster County
Allyson Gibson and the Lancaster Clean Water Partners will give a presentation on the status of Lancaster County’s proposed action plan for meeting nutrient and sediment pollution reduction targets.  Available handouts--
York County
Felicia Dell, Pam Shellenberger and John Seitz from the York County Planning Commission will provide a similar presentation for the York County action plan.  Available handouts--
Farm Survey Results
Penn State Agriculture and Environment Center Director Matt Royer will give a presentation on the results of their deeper dive into the 2016 Farm Survey the Center undertook to help identify additional conservation measures farmers adopted in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed that were not previously counted.
The results from over 7,000 farms were reviewed again by the Center to determine trends of adopting farm conservation measures based on size of farms, type of farms, funding assistance, location in the watershed and other factors
The trends uncovered in the Center’s additional analysis will be presented to help guide decisions about the best way to provide farmers with assistance to get more conservation practices on the ground.
Click Here for a copy of the Farm Trends Presentation
The meeting will be in Room 105 of the Rachel Carson Building in Harrisburg from 1:00 to 3:30.  Click Here to register to attend the meeting by webinar.  Participants will also need to call in 1-650-479-3208, PASSCODE: 642 304 985.
For more information, visit the PA Chesapeake Bay Watershed Planning Steering Committee webpage.
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