In the 2019 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan, the Department of Environmental Protection rolled out a “local and specific” strategy to reduce its pollution burden on the Chesapeake Bay by 2025.
Counties with land within the Chesapeake Bay watershed were encouraged to engage with local stakeholders to develop localized plans to achieve reduction goals for nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment loads impairing their local waters and the Bay downstream.
Thirty-four of the forty-three counties in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in Pennsylvania participated in the Countywide Clean Water Action Plan program.
This Water Cooler Talk will present the engagement strategies used by the counties and the social and environmental outcomes achieved through those stakeholder engagement processes.
Who is this for?
-- Anyone interested in water resources
-- Those who work in the water field
-- Those who have a general interest in water
What will you learn?
-- Hear about current work happening in the water resource field
-- Ask questions about stakeholder engagement within each Pennsylvania County's Watershed Implementation Plan
-- Share ideas with professionals across Pennsylvania
Click Here to register and for more information.
Visit DEP’s Countywide Clean Water Action Plan webpage to learn more about this initiative and the Chesapeake Watershed Implementation Plan webpage..
For more educational opportunities, visit the Penn State Extension website.
How Clean Is Your Stream?
The draft 2024 report has an interactive report viewer that allows you to zoom in to your own address to see if the streams near you are impaired and why.
Click Here to check out your streams. Click Here for a tutorial on using the viewer.
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[Posted: March 21, 2024] PA Environment Digest
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