Brodhead Watershed

 Drainage Area: 312 square miles
 Monroe County, PA
 

 

Upper Brodhead Pocono Creek Paradise Creek McMichael Creek Marshalls Creek Lower Brodhead Cherry Creek

You see a FISH KILL in your stream

  1. Collect several dead fish and place them in a plastic ziploc storage bag. Place bag in refrigerator, not freezer.
  2. Collect a water sample in sterile container and place in refrigerator.
  3. Take temperature of water.
  4. Call:
    • a) PA DEP at 570-826-2511,
    • b) PA Fish & Boat Commission at Northeast Regional Office 570-477-5717 or
    • c) BWA office at 570-839-1120.

You see STORMWATER/EROSION OF SOIL entering a stream

  1. Photograph or video event if you can.
  2. Call:
    • a) Your Township or Borough Office,
    • b) Monroe County Conservation District - daytime only at 570-620-3060 or Pike County Conservation District - daytime only at 570-226-8220
    • c) BWA office at 570-839-1120.

You see someone filling what you believe to be a WETLAND

  1. Take a color photograph of video if you can.
  2. Call:
    • a) Your Township or Borough office,
    • b) Monroe County Conservation District - daytime only at 570-629-3060 or Pike County Conservation District - daytime only at 570-226-8220,
    • c) US Fish & Wildlife Service at 570-894-1275,
    • d) PA DEP at 570-826-2511
    • e) BWA office at 570-839-1120.

You see what you believe is an ILLEGAL ACTIVITY ALONG THE STREAM?
(Cutting trees along a stream bank, machinery in stream).

  1. Photograph or video event if you can.
  2. Call:
    • a) Your Township or Borough office,
    • b) Monroe County Conservation District - daytime only at 570-629-3060 or Pike County Conservation District - daytime only at 570-226-8220,
    • c) PA Fish & Boat Commission at Northeast Regional Office 570-477-5717
    • d) BWA office at 570-839-1120.

You see what you think is ILLEGAL DUMPING INTO STREAM

  1. Record license number of truck.
  2. Call:
    • a) Your Township or Borough Police or State Police at Swiftwater at 570-424-3037 or at Blooming Grove at 570-775-7374,
    • b) PA Fish & Boat Commission at Northeast Regional Office 570-477-5717, or
    • c) BWA office at 570-839-1120.

You think your STREAM IS CHANGING
(unusual green algae growth, smell, color amount of foam in water)

  1. Collect a water sample in sterile container and place in refrigerator.
  2. Call:
    • a) Monroe County Conservation District - daytime only at 570-629-3060 or Pike County Conservation District - daytime only at 570-226-8220,
    • b) PA Fish & Boat Commission at Northeast Regional Office 570-477-5717 or
    • c) BWA office at 570-839-1120.

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Brodhead Watershed Association.
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