Indiana
County
Conemaugh Valley
Conservancy / Kiski-Conemaugh Stream Team
Funded by: LWVPA-CEF
WREN Project, Watershed Protection Project 2002-2003
Project Title: Community Outreach Placemat
Project
Area(s) to be protected: Kiski-Conemaugh River
Basin
Partner(s): Conemaugh Valley Conservancy/Kiski-Conemaugh
Stream Team & Kiski-Conemaugh River Basin Alliance
Focus: develop a community outreach project
based on restaurant placemats
Counties served: Armstrong, Somerset, Westmoreland,
Indiana, Cambria County
Grant: $5,000
Contact: Tom Grote, 814-467-0836, email: tfgrote@floodcity.net
Aging Services of
Indiana County
Funded by: LWVPA-CEF
WREN Project, Drinking
Water Source Water Protection Project 2002-2003
Project Title: Indiana County Drinking
Water Source Water Protection Campaign
Area(s) to be protected: throughout the county
Partner(s): League of Women Voters of Indiana County, Indiana County
Office of Planning and Development, Indiana County Conservation District,
Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Mathematics, Applied Research
Lab
Focus: develop a drinking water awareness campaign
Counties served: Indiana County Grant: $5,000
Contact: Peg Malcolm, 724-349-4564, email: pmalcom@yourinter.net, lwvic@yourinter.net
Aultman Rund Watershed
recognized as a Groundwater Guardian Community since 2000
Explanation
of Groundwater Guardian Award
Community Profile: http://www.groundwater.org/active/community.asp?id202
Contact:
Ken Marshall
AWARE
6122 Rt. 286 W.
Indiana, PA 15701 US
Phone: 724-465-4687
Fax: 724-465-8974
E-mail:
nextlife@adelphia.net
Blacklick Creek Watershed
Educational Kiosk
Funded by: LWVPA-CEF WREN Project
- Watershed Education for Pollution Prevention Projects - 2000
Partners:
Indiana County Parks, Blacklick Creek Watershed Association, Indiana
University of Pennsylvania, and Spatial Sciences Research Center
Area(s) to be protected: Blacklick Creek Watershed
Focus:
The coalition will produce brochures and purchase and install an outdoor
grade signboard that will inform Ghosttown Trail users about water
quality issues in the Blacklick Creek watershed.
Counties served: Indiana and Cambria counties
Grant: $1,382
Contact: Michael Kuzemchak, 724.463.8636,
email: indparks@stargate.net
AWARE Organization Establishment
and Educational Outreach
Funded by: LWVPA-CEF WREN Project
- Watershed Education for Pollution Prevention Projects - 2000
Partners:
Aultman Watershed Association for Restoring the Environment, and Blacklegs
Creek Watershed Association
Area(s) to be protected: Aultman Run Watershed
Focus:
AWARE will develop and mail educational brochures and a quarterly
newsletter to the residents of the watershed.
Grant: $1,100
Contact: John Somonick, 724.463.0651,
email: services@geolynk.com
Indiana County
Watershed Education Alliance
Funded by: LWVPA-CEF WREN Project - Watershed Education for Pollution Prevention Projects - 1999
Focus:
The partners will develop a countywide student stream monitoring program
to educate about water quality issues and seek solutions to acid mine
drainage problems. A watershed education conference will bring students
together to share information.
Partners:
Indiana Senior High School, Ken Sink Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Indiana
County Conservation District, Kiski-Conemaugh River Basin Alliance
Grant: $ 2,440
Contact: Phil Palko, 724-463-8562, Email: PPalko@aol.com
Indiana County Conservation
District
Funded
by LWVPA-CEF WREN Project
-
Nonpoint
Source Pollution Prevention Grants - 1997-1998
Coalition
Partners: Indiana U. of PA, Dept of Safety Sciences, LWV of Indiana
County
Contact: Louis A. Kopczyk, 412-463-7702
Grant: $ 1,050
Focus: For a conference to provide information on environmental
issues and support programs to Indiana County municipalities that
will enable them to better answer inquiries from the public.
Accomplishments: The conference was held in September 1997
and was targeted at municipalities who are often the first, if not
the only, agency contacted before small projects are started. Fifty-four
people attended, including personnel representing 18 municipalities.
Eleven organizations provided speakers on eight issue/program topics,
and eight organizations provided educational exhibits.
The conference was completed using approximately one-half the requested
funds and the local project team proposed sponsoring a model meeting
for residents, hosted by one of the municipalities with a known water
quality problem. This request was approved by the Sponsor. Seventeen
residents attended the model meeting for Ernest Borough residents
in May 1998. At the model meeting a list of potential community projects
was developed using group process techniques. A panel of experts provided
feedback on each project's feasibility and suggestions about how to
achieve them.
Successes, Obstacles, and Unanticipated Outcomes: Conference
evaluations were overwhelmingly positive. Lower than anticipated costs
allowed team to propose extending the reach of project activities
(described above).
|
