Featured Projects

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  Schuylkill Students Street Art Contest

  Get your artwork on a storm drain near you and win a prize for you and your class.

• Schuylkill Acts and Impacts- 2014

  Schuylkill Acts & Impacts is a weeklong service-learning program that will be offered to a team of ten high school students from communities within the Schuylkill River Watershed.

• 2013 SAN Annual Meeting

  The registration material for the 2013 SAN annual workshop is now available. The workshop will be held at Reading Area Community College, in Reading, PA on Friday, November 15th 2013. The workshop will run from 10:00am until 3:30pm.

• Cryptosporidium Sampling in the Saucony

  Thanks to a number of local organizations including the Schuylkill Action Network, Berks Conservancy, Berks County Conservation District, Natural Resource Conservation Service and many others, agricultural best management practices (BMPs) such as streambank fencing, man...

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  Macroinvertebrate Sampling Event - January 2013

  Members of the Ag Workgroup made their annual visit to former project sites to sample streams in the Maiden Creek Watershed. The group found several sensitive bugs that had not been seen in these streams before - a great sign that the stream health is improving!

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  Saucony Creek Brewing Company

  The Saucony Creek Brewing Company is a start-up microbrewery in Kutztown, Berks County. Partnering with the Schuylkill Action Network, they have developed the Stonefly India Pale Ale. Portions of each sale will be donated to restoration funds benefitting the Schuylkil...

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  Wheeler Run

  The Wheeler Run project removed an old wooden flume and reconstructed a stream bed to keep clean water out of the Pine Knot mine pool.

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  Silver Creek AMD Treatment System

  The Silver Creek AMD treatment system was completed in July, 2010. It treats approximately 1,200 gallons/minute, removing metals and raises the pH of the mine drainage before it flows into Silver Creek.

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  Early Warning System

  "The Delaware Valley Early Warning System (EWS) is an integrated monitoring, communication, and notification system used to provide advanced warning of water quality events to water suppliers and industrial intake operators in the Schuylkill and Delaware River waters...