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  • Water Reporter is an app that connects people and organizations working to protect watersheds. The social network of users collect and share water observations and watershed information in an effort to build […]

  • The Water Data Collaborative was created by a partnership of water-focused environmental organizations to “organize community water science resources, and practitioners, as well as create new and helpful tools […]

  • The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides an online tool for exploring watersheds called How’s My Waterway? How’s My Waterway incorporates and expands upon content from the EPA’s Surf Your Watershed tool […]

  • A decade ago, I began to tailor watershed education into my children’s environmental program. At the outset, this was spurred by my knowledge of fracking in Pennsylvania and bumping into an impressive National G […]

  • In a bold, first instance in the United States, the Yurok Tribe of Northern California in 2019 passed a tribal ordinance declaring the Klamath River to possess the “rights of personhood,” a legal designation pro […]

  • This story is the second in a two-part series (read part one here) offering a brief overview of stream ecology and monitoring. Though initially written for a fly-fishing audience in southeastern P […]

  • This story is the first in a two-part series (read part two here) offering a brief overview of stream ecology and monitoring. Though initially written for a fly-fishing audience in southeastern P […]

  • Wisdom and Advice on Watershed Protection From a Prodigious Environmental Leader You’ve (Possibly) Never Heard Of

    Photo of Pickering Creek by Matthew Brink, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

    Introductory […]

    • Thank you Carol for the excellent article about Pete, his story and his meritorious efforts.
      You have made him visible :-). As a young lad I too frolicked and played in Cobbs Creek.

      Our Primrose watershed is underlined by limestone and has had numerous spikes of chloride in our EnviroDIY conductivity measurements this year. We will be advising the township to be vigilant and aware of storage and distribution.
      FC

  • Uh-oh! Alert! Water Depth Dropping!

    It is January 30, 2021, at 1:35 PM (UTC-5:00). In two hours, streamflow at Phillips Mill, Solebury Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, has dropped three inches in depth, […]

    • Thanks, Francis, for sharing this information! You mentioned that the high school students at the Solebury School perform macroinvertebrate/pollution tolerance index testing. Do you know if they are doing leaf pack projects? Macroinvertebrate data collected by Leaf Pack Network (https://leafpacknetwork.org) groups can now be entered in the Monitor My Watershed data portal. That would be a nice addition to your EnviroDIY Monitoring Station real-time data.

    • Hi Heather,
      Goody goody goody!
      This information will get Jeremy Pfancook and Phyllis Arnold ,2 environmental teachers, excited.
      Our two schools are definitely ready to join the leaf pack network.
      When I wrote the article piece about the quarry pump failing for 19 days, I remembered thinking what a disaster the high school environmental PTI lab at Phillips MillI was going to be.
      I was thinking in the back my mind…. the leaf pack may save the day… but I didn’t really believe it until I saw our number 27 PTI 🙂

      I was just talking to the teachers and trying to figure out how to get a significant number of kids out of virtual school and into getting mud on their 🥾. Thank you for all your support.
      Francis

  • In this article I describe the process I have used over the past two years in responding to my field observations of inadequately protected road salt piles during winter in southeastern Pennsylvania.

    Some […]

  • The nor’easter that dumped six to eight inches of snow in southeastern Pennsylvania on December 16-17, 2020, provided an excellent opportunity to document stream conductivity response to the application of road s […]

  • The Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watersheds is a team of specialists who provide free organizational and scientific technical assistance to Pennsylvania-based watershed and conservation o […]

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  • The effects of road salt on stream macroinvertebrate communities are becoming well understood, and therefore road salt isn’t necessarily an “emerging” contaminant. But road salt content in streams could be consi […]

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