DEP Update On Chesapeake Bay Implementation Plan Activities From Healthy Waters Partnership

On August 2, the Department of Environmental Protection published its latest update on the Chesapeake Bay Implementation Plan from its Healthy Waters Partners.  

Here are several key updates from DEP’s newsletter--

-- Center For Water Quality Excellence Now Open Online

-- PA Spring MS4 Stormwater Forum Available At Clean Water Academy

-- Landowner Guide To Buffer Success Available From PA CREP Program

-- Over 1,000 New Acres Enrolled In Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program

-- Section 319 Watershed Plan Approved For Halfmoon Creek, Centre, Huntingdon Counties

-- Sustainable Dairy PA Launched By Hershey Company, Land O’ Lakes, Alliance For Chesapeake Bay

-- Agricultural Plan Reimbursement Program Wrap Up - $2.3 Million Suported 3,222 plans coveirng 514,783 acres

-- Updates on county Clean Water Plan implementation efforts

-- Recording of the July 28 Cheapeake Bay State Team Meeting

Click Here to read the entire newsletter.   Click Here to sign up for your own copy.

PA Chesapeake Bay Plan

For more information on how Pennsylvania plans to meet its Chesapeake Bay cleanup obligations, visit DEP’s PA’s Phase 3 Watershed Implementation Plan webpage.

Click Here for a summary of the steps the Plan recommends.

How Clean Is Your Stream?

DEP’s Interactive Report Viewer allows you to zoom in on your own stream or watershed to find out how clean your stream is or if it has impaired water quality using the latest information in the draft 2020 Water Quality Report.

(Photo: Cumberland County youth soccer plays and friends plant 600 native trees in June.)

[Posted: August 2, 2021]  PA Environment Digest