The Moshannon Creek Watershed Festival included environmental displays, information about the activities and recently completed projects of the Moshannon Creek Watershed Coalition, an exhibit by the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, and water-related activities.
Beaver Run Fish Habitat Improvement Project
Through the cooperation of the Northcentral Pennsylvania Conservancy, Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission, and many other private organizations and individuals, fish habitat improvements were made to the Beaver Run channel in Houtzdale. Fish began utilizing the habitat structures within minutes of their installation, and a trout exceeding 20-inches in size was spotted resting in one of the log cross vanes on the day of the project. Since the structures were installed, the stream has responded as planned, and scour pools and other habitat areas have developed nicely.
13th
Annual Watershed Cleanup Day April 25, 2009
Thank you to everyone who helped with the Annual Watershed Cleanup Day, especially: ClearWater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania, Inc., Veolia Environmental Services, Houtzdale Rails to Trails, and all the volunteers who worked so hard to help clean up part of our watershed.
Emigh Run Headwaters Relocation Project
This is a success story. The Emigh Run watershed—located in Clearfield County, PA—is severely degraded by acid mine drainage (AMD) from past coal mining activities. Through relocation and restoration efforts in the headwaters, a section of this stream has been restored, and water quality has greatly improved.
Watershed
Festival August 24, 2008
The Moshannon Creek Watershed Coalition (MCWC) held their 2nd Annual free Watershed
Festival at Cold Stream Dam Recreation Area in Philipsburg.
The purpose of this festival was to raise public awareness concerning
Abandoned Mine Drainage (AMD) and its effects on the Moshannon
Creek watershed and to inform the public of how they can help
to restore the "Red Mo."
12th
Annual Watershed Cleanup Day April 19, 2008
Thank you to everyone that helped in the cleanup, especially:
ClearWater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania, Inc.; John Glenn
Sanitation Service; Decatur Township; Andy Rebar; Troop 48 B.S.A.
of Osceola Mills; and all the friends of the Moshannon Creek
Watershed Coalition that worked so hard.
Watershed
Festival August 26, 2007
The Moshannon Creek Watershed Coalition (MCWC) held a free Watershed
Festival at Cold Stream Dam Recreation Area in Philipsburg.
The purpose of this festival was to raise public awareness concerning
Abandoned Mine Drainage (AMD) and its effects on the Moshannon
Creek watershed and to inform the public of how they can help
to restore the "Red Mo."
Watershed
Cleanup Day April 21, 2007
Thank you to everyone that helped in the cleanup, especially:
ClearWater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania, Inc.; John Glenn
Sanitation Service; Rush Township; Troop 48 B.S.A. of Osceola
Mills; and all the friends of the Moshannon Creek Watershed
Coalition that worked so hard.
Earth
Day Trash Cleanup April 22, 2006
Thank you to everyone that helped in the cleanup, especially:
Watershed Specialist for Centre County Conservation District,
Ann Donovan; ClearWater Conservancy of Central Pennsylvania,
Inc.; John Glenn Sanitation Service; Rush Township; Andy Coleman’s
Asphalt Paving; Sheetz of Philipsburg; Weis Markets; Pennsylvania
American Water; Troop 48 B.S.A. of Osceola Mills; and all the
friends of the Moshannon Creek Watershed Coalition that worked
so hard.
Trout
Run
This stream was Moshannon Creek Watershed Coalition’s
1st Watershed Assessment. We had four teams of volunteers that
gathered pH, conductivity, temperature, and rate of flow data,
as well as water samples monthly. Each team had approximately
ten sites to sample. There were a total of 40 sites where samples
were collected monthly and 12 sites where samples were collected
quarterly.
13th
Annual Watershed Cleanup Day April 25, 2009
