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Conservation District Watershed Specialist Positions Extended To 2014
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The Western Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation recently announced that the enormously successful County Conservation District Watershed Specialist program has been extended until June 30, 2014. WPCAMR would like to thank PA DEP Secretary Michael Krancer for recognizing the importance of this program to our reclamation community. We also understand that there are other members of the PA DEP staff who have been long time supporters of the program. To those people, we offer a heartfelt, "Thank you."
The continuation of this valuable program is surely a shot in the arm for Pennsylvania's environmental community.
During WPCAMR's recent tour of abandoned mine sites with DEP Secretary Mike Krancer at the end of May, we repeatedly stressed the importance of the Watershed Specialist positions as well as the Growing Greener program in restoring Pennsylvania's abandoned mine lands and water to a healthy state.
Secretary Krancer saw, first hand, how municipalities and watershed groups, working in concert with the County Conservation District Watershed Specialist, can make amazing improvements in previously degraded streams-local solutions for local problems.
In fact, since the inception of the Watershed Specialist program and Growing Greener, 65 miles of stream, formerly impacted by abandoned mine drainage, have been removed from the federal list of impaired (polluted) waters in Pennsylvania.
WPCAMR, like many in the reclamation community, offer our ongoing thanks to all the County Conservation District Watershed Specialists for their hard work and offer congratulations on the continuance of their program. We also look forward to even more successes in the coming years from the good work that our Conservation Districts, watershed groups, industry partners, and municipalities are doing in cleaning up our abandoned mine legacy.
(Written By: Andy McAllister, Regional Coordinator, WPCAMR, reprinted from Abandoned Mine Posts.)
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7/18/2011 |
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