The latest UpStream newsletter from the Stroud Water Research Center includes articles on how Family Day engages Latino Community of Chester County, a farm conservation tour at the Denglinger Farm in Lancaster County, profiles of Delaware Watershed community scientists and 2003 Stroud Freshwater Award Winner Laura Turner Seidel, chair of the Captain Planet Foundation

Family Day

Last month, Stroud Water Research Center’s Education Department led a family day at Marsh Creek State Park with Mighty Writers El Futuro, a nonprofit in Toughkenamon, Pennsylvania, that supports and uplifts Latino culture and families in southern Chester County through Mommy & Me programs, job readiness for teens, and a daily after-school writing academy.

About 80 people from the Mighty Writers and local migrant community enjoyed canoeing, fishing, picnicking, and more.

The event, made possible by the collaboration with our wonderful state park partners, fostered intercultural communication and community building.

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Denglinger Farm Tour

The Chesapeake Bay Program, a regional partnership working to restore the Chesapeake Bay, celebrated its 40th anniversary last month with a tour of conservation projects in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Attendees made three stops, which included one of Stroud Water Research Center’s farm stewardship projects to restore local water quality and the Chesapeake Bay.

Denlinger Farm, which abuts an unnamed tributary to Mill Creek, is the site of the project. The owner of the 93-acre farm has planted a streamside forest and installed roof runoff controls, an alternative watering source, fencing to keep livestock out of the stream, and manure storage.

The local community’s response to this and similar watershed restoration work has been positive. Other landowners and farmers in the watershed have also chosen to join the effort. As a result, Lancaster County has included the tributary in its strategy to restore streams and get them removed from the state’s list of impaired waters.

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Delaware Watershed Community Scientists

Volunteers are gathering data on the health of the Delaware River watershed, helping scientists and local watershed groups understand threats to water quality and where progress can be made.

Their backgrounds are varied — some are teachers, others are doctors — but they all have one ambitious goal in common: to ensure everyone has access to clean fresh water.

Stroud™ Water Research Center is helping these unsung heroes and the watershed organizations through which they work by providing technical support, capacity building, and a bit of can-do spirit.

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2023 Freshwater Excellence Award Winner

Laura Turner Seydel is a global champion of Earth stewardship. By working with organizations that address urgent challenges affecting environmental health and sustainability — everything from the air we breathe to the water we drink — she inspires actions to protect our home and life-support system, planet Earth, for the future generations who will inherit it.

Turner Seydel is especially focused on preparing children to be the next generation of environmental stewards.

She is chair of the Captain Planet Foundation, which has funded hands-on projects in 90 countries and empowered millions of young people to be problem-solvers for the planet.

She is also a board member of the Children & Nature Network, which helps children experience and value the benefits of time spent in nature.

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Other articles

-- Profile: Lamonte Garber, Stroud Watershed Coordinator

-- Profile: David Wise, Stroud Watershed Restoration

-- Meet Stroud’s 2023 Interns

Upcoming Events

-- August 5: Stream Health Checkups With Birds, Macroinvertebrates, Amphibians and More, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, Berks County

-- August 15: Catch the Rain Workshop, Stroud Water Research Center

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The Chester County-based Stroud Center seeks to advance knowledge and stewardship of freshwater systems through global research, education, and watershed restoration.

NewsClips - Watersheds:

-- Gov. Shapiro, Agriculture Secretary Redding Visit The Rodale Institute In Berks County To Celebrate Organic Field Day, Meet Veteran Farmers

-- Reading Eagle: Gov. Shapiro Says Rodale Institute Key To Economic Future

-- Lancaster Farming: Chesapeake Bay Settlement Means More Farm Inspections In PA

-- York Dispatch: York Landowners Can Get Paid To Beautify Their Property And Improve Local Water Quality

-- LancasterOnline: Completed Long’s Park Wetlands Project Will Improve Water Quality, Expand Nature Areas

-- Huntingdon Daily News: Warriors Mark Run Watershed Restoration Project Underway

-- Lewistown Sentinel: PA InterFaith Power & Light Partners With 10 Million Trees Partnership To Offer Free Trees In Juniata, Mifflin Counties

-- Public News Service: Chesapeake Bay Foundation Brief Urging Reversal Of Stormwater Fee Decision

-- Scranton Times Editorial: Don’t Let State Off The Hook On Stormwater Fees

-- Reading Eagle: Reading’s Youth Interns Clear Storm Drains After July 9 Storm

-- Brodhead Watershed Association Aug. 27 Ramble, A Day Of Outdoor Adventures And Educational Programs in Monroe County

-- Schuylkill Action Network July 27 Stormwater Workgroup Meeting, Tour

-- Schuylkill Action Network Abandoned Mine Drainage Workgroup Meeting July 25, In-Person, Zoom

-- Marcellus Drilling News: Aborted Epiphany Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Plant Resurrected With PennVEST Loan

-- Inquirer - Frank Kummer: 15 Billion Gallons Of Sewage-Polluted Water Flows Annually Into Philly’s Rivers And Streams, Report Says

-- WHYY: 15 Billion Gallons Of Raw Sewage, Polluted Stormwater Makes Its Way Into Philadelphia’s Waterways Every Year, According To New Report

Related Articles - Watersheds:

-- PA Assn. Of Conservation Districts Recognizes Conservationists Across Pennsylvania  [PaEN]

-- Registration Open! PA Statewide Abandoned Mine Reclamation Conference Oct. 24-26 In Altoona  [PaEN]

-- Chesapeake Bay Journal: EPA Launches More Collaborative Water Quality Impact Assessments Of PA Farms - By Karl Blankenship  [PaEN]

-- Crop Exhibits, Solar Energy, Hay Contest Featured At Penn State Ag Progress Days Aug. 8-10  [PaEN]

-- USDA NRCS Seeks Proposals For Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership Fund To Mitigate Wildfire Risk, Protect Water Quality, Improve Wildlife Habitat, Restore Forest Ecosystems  [PaEN]

-- Penn State: USDA Grant Funds Study Of Effectiveness Of Vegetation To Curb Water Pollution On Farms

-- PennVEST Invests $116.9 Million In 22 Drinking Water, Wastewater, Nonpoint Source Projects; And An Oil & Gas Wastewater Treatment Facility  [PaEN]

-- Stroud Water Research Center: Family Day Engages Latino Community; Denlinger Farm Tour Focuses On Stewardship; Profiles Of Delaware Watershed Community Scientists; Laura Turner Seidel Freshwater Excellence Award Winner [PaEN]

-- The PRPS Maintenance Institute Sponsoring CBLP Sustainable Stormwater BMP Management Workshop Oct. 6 In State College  [PaEN]

-- Penn State Extension Watershed Winds July Newsletter: Storm Drain Art; Master Watershed Stewards Native Tree, Shrub Sale; Arsenic In Private Drinking Water Supplies

-- Susquehanna River Basin Commission Aug. 10 Hearing On Proposed Water Withdrawals, Including 8 Related To Shale Gas Drilling Operations, 1 In Exceptional Value Loyalsock Creek  [PaEN]

-- Bay Journal - Ad Crable: Two Susquehanna River Islands Preserved Off Harrisburg Shoreline

[Posted: July 19, 2023]

7/24/2023