Water Resources
Pennsylvania’s 84,000 miles of rivers and streams, along with our lakes, wetlands and aquifers provide more than our drinking supply and recreation: they are our economy, our heritage and our future. For over a century, we treated them with disdain, without regard to the impacts on human health or the ecology. Nearly 15,000 miles of stream in Pennsylvania are not drinkable, fishable or swimmable – 34 times the length of the Susquehanna River and 46 times the length of the Allegheny. PEC has focused its expertise and experience into the Center of Excellence for Water Resources, which addresses abandoned mine drainage, stormwater management and a program for trading credits for removing excess nutrients and sediment from streams.
Water Resources Programs
Beaver River Conservation and Management Plan
The Beaver River Conservation and Management Plan will outline an approach for implementing future conservation-oriented efforts for the Beaver River corridor in Beaver and Lawrence Counties.
Developers for the Delaware
Regional developers use methods like low impact development, better site design, and stormwater management best management practices to minimize their impact on nearby natural resources like forests and streams. While these practices are often…
Environmental Advisory Council Network
The EAC Network helps local officials make sound environmental decisions within and across municipal boundaries. The Network promotes and supports Environmental Advisory Councils, who are appointed volunteers at work protecting the environment through project implementation,…
Forested Buffer for Environmental Credits Project
Partnership installed a forested riparian buffer to demonstrate how a corporation can fund a conservation project yielding measurable environmental credits that can be recognized by state and/or federal environmental credit registries and potentially be sold…
French Creek Project
PEC co-founded the French Creek Project in 1995. French Creek later was designated by the Nature Conservancy as one of its original “Last Great Places.”
French Creek Stormwater Management
PEC manages an alternative stormwater Best Management Practice (BMP) project in urban areas of the French Creek watershed (i.e., in areas of already high percentages of impervious surface cover and in areas of increasing percentages…Governor's Environmental Excellence Awards Gala
For the past two years, PEC has hosted a gala dinner in celebration of the recipients of the Governor's Environmental Excellence Awards.
Great Lakes Conservation and Restoration
PEC works with multiple stakeholders throughout the Lake Erie basin and across the state and Great Lakes basin to promote the conservation and restoration of Lake Erie and the rest of the Great Lakes.
Land Conservation Initiatives
PEC works with communities, landowners and land trusts to conserve properties along the thousands of miles of shoreline in Western Pennsylvania to protect water quality and maintain both natural and working landscapes.
Pine Creek Watershed Coalition
PEC convened a stakeholder meeting in 2001 to discuss the issues in the Pine Creek Watershed and initiated a watershed assessment the following year. As a result, a Coalition of environmental organizations, sportsmen's groups,…