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Spotlight- Kiski-Conemaugh Stream Team 2009 Annual Report Now Available
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The Kiski-Conemaugh Stream Team just made available its 2009 Annual Report highlighting the efforts of its volunteers, supporters and local partners in cleaning up their watersheds.
           36 volunteer Stream Stewards collected 528 water samples from abandoned mine discharges, AMD treatment systems and rivers impacted by AMD in 2009.  The samples came from 157 sites throughout the Kiski-Conemaugh River Basin, including from 26 AMD treatment systems regularly monitored by the Stream Team.

            In an effort to draw kids outside and connect to nature, the Stream Team, in partnership with the Mountain Laurel Chapter of Trout Unlimited, undertook six Trout in the Classroom projects in Cambrian and Somerset counties and conducted over four dozen environmental education programs.
            The Stream Team and other partners helped the Somerset Conservation District, the Fish and Boat Commission and Cambria Somerset Authority construct 100 fish habitat structures that were placed in the Quemahoning Reservoir for the second consecutive year.

            Details about Stream Team projects and the organization were used by Dr. Neil Korostoff, a professor of landscape architecture at Penn State University, for a presentation at an international conference in Grossaeschen, Germany last September.

            Read more about all the projects undertaken by the Stream Team in the 2009 Annual Report.

 

4/12/2010

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