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BWA President Offers Testimony to Governor's Sustainable Infrastructure Task Force

Testimony of Dr. Jerilyn Jewett-Smith

Compromise reached on Pocono Sewer Project

BWA lawsuit to be settled with regional wastewater
management agreement
- BWA Stream Lines - Summer 2008

Pocono Township Drops Sewer Plan - Pocono Record June 6, 2008

Sewerage Pact Serves Parties - Pocono Record Editorial June 15, 2008

BWA opposes Pocono Sewer Project

"BWA files legal challenge to Pocono permit"-

Spring 2008 BWA Newsletter -- Stream   Lines    

Read our Letter to the Editor,  Feb 12, 2008

Water Loss from Pocono watershed         

BWA Newsletter article, "Pocono Big Dig Rolls On"

BWA Newsletter Spring 2007, Can  We Teach Old Dogs New Tricks?

BWA Newsletter Fall 2006, "Wastewater" is not a problem ... its a resource

        

         In April 2004, BWA partnered with the Monroe County Conservation District, Monroe County Planning Commission and the Pocono Mountain Industrial Development Authority to present a workshop on Sustainable Infrastructure to learn more about how Monroe County can grow, while protecting the natural resources we all depend on.  Read the Sustainable Infrastructure Workshop, summary.  Email brodheadwatershed@verizon.net for Speaker's list.

 BWA Projects - What's New

        Invasive Species Project

        Learn more about Invasive Plants        

       Paradise Creek Watershed Assessment and Restoration Project

Swiftwater Creek Exceptional Value Petition

BWA and co-petitoners Tobyhanna-Tunkhannock Creek Watershed Association, Brodhead Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Swiftwater Preserve and Buck Hill Conservation Foundation submitted a petition to Pennsylvania's Environmental Quality Board (EQB)  seeking a redesignation of the Upper Swiftwater Creek (above Route 611) and Indian Run to "Exceptional Value" as its designated use.    The EQB, in October, 2007, accepted the petition for further study of the streams by PA Department of Environmental Protection.   The streams are now protected at the "Exceptional Value" level of protection.

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