Cumberland
County
The Pomfret Group installed a demonstration Rain Barrel/Urn display by neighborhood merchant association for
watering public greenspaces and gardens to educate visitors and tourists and
enhance downtown commercial Historic District on Pomfret Street, Carlisle, with a $199 WEPP Opportunity Grant
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Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM), Cumberland County, $4,000
Funded by: LWVPA-CEF WREN Project, Watershed Protection Project 2005-2006
Project Title: Carlisle Stormwater Education Project
Area to be Protected: Letort Spring Run
Partners: Borough of Carlisle, The Letort Regional Authority and Conodoguinet Creek Watershed Association
Focus: produce and distribute movie ads, posters in print, on air and through other media and events that encourage Carlisle homeowners and businesses to maintain lawns and automobiles and manage pet waste in ways that will minimize nonpoint source pollution in Letort Spring Run.
Contact: Julie Vastine 717-245-1565, vastine@dickinson.edu
Land Conservancy of Adams County. Adams, Franklin & Cumberland counties, $4,250
Funded by: LWVPA-CEF WREN Project, Drinking Water Source Water Protection Project 2005-2006
Project Title: Gettysburg Source Water Protection Outreach Project
Area to be protected: Marsh Creek Watershed
Partner(s): Watershed Alliance of Adams County, Borough of Gettysburg (Gettysburg Municipal Authority), Adams County Office of Planning and Development
Focus: Design and produce bill inserts, bookmarks, restaurant placemats, and a display to raise awareness of the importance of preventing contamination of the 7 groundwater wells and one surface water intake which comprise the Gettysburg Municipal Authority public drinking water supply. The partnership will also install signs identifying the locations of the source water areas.
Contact: Sidney Kuhn, 717-334-2828, email: skuhn@adamscounty.us
South
Middleton Parks, Recreation, Greenways & Trails,
Cumberland County, $5,000
Funded by: LWVPA-CEF
WREN Project, Drinking Water Source Protection Project 2003-2004
Project Title: Wayside Exhibits for the Environmental Exhibits
Area(s) to be protected: Yellow Breeches Watershed
Partner(s): South Middleton Greenways and Trails Committee, South Middleton
Township Municipal Authority, South Middleton School District, and
Yellow Breeches Watershed Association
Focus: install wayside exhibits at Spring Meadows Park to raise awareness
of the need to protect the community's source water of their drinking
water supply
Contact: Kristin Davis, 717-258-4441, email: parksdirector@smiddleton.com
South Middleton
Bubbler Foundation
Educational Outreach Initiative
Area(s) to be protected: Yellow Breeches Creek and LeTort Spring
Run
Funded by LWVPA-CEF
WREN Project
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Drinking Water Source Protection Project - 2001
Partner(s): South Middleton Parks, Recreation, Greenways &
Trails, South Middleton School District, South Middleton Greenways
and Trails Commission, South Middleton Municipal Authority, and Appalachian
Trail Conference
Focus: Produce and distribute an educational brochure and purchase
and demonstrate groundwater model simulators.
Grant: $5,000
Contact: Teresa Shakespeare, 717.243.7954, email: Shakes1984@aol.com
South Middleton
Township
Funded
by LWVPA-CEF WREN Project
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Nonpoint Source Pollution Prevention Grants - 1997-1998
Coalition Partners: South Middleton Municipal
Authority, Carlisle Borough Municipal Authority, Cumberland County
Conservation District, LeTort Regional Authority, Gehringer Roth,
Inc., R. E. Wright, Inc.
Contact: Barbara Wilson, 717-258-5324
Grant: $ 3,000
Focus: This project had two parts:
1) the gathering and development of educational materials and
2) a series of three public meetings. The purposes of meetings were
to:
(a) introduce the concepts of water supply and wellhead protection;
(b) focus on agricultural land use in the community; and
(c)focus on industrial and commercial operations in the Township.
Accomplishments: Held all three planned public meetings, each
targeting a specific audience- general public (15 attendees), agriculturists
(17 attendees), and businesses (4 attendees). Presented an introduction
to groundwater issues, including a demonstration of the groundwater
flow model to two ninth-grade classes. A public policy exercise was
then conducted with the students.
Successes, Obstacles, and Unanticipated Outcomes: While the
Township had already started the process to pass a Wellhead Protection
Ordinance (approved in April 1998), the project helped to increase
the community's understanding of the importance of groundwater protection.
A series of articles about groundwater protection will be published
in the Township's quarterly newsletter.
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