General Information
The purpose of the page is to assemble a collection of watershed links to provide resource information to people involved in watershed groups (Pennsylvania). If you would like help by submitting new links, informing of errors or outdated / dead links please e-mail your comments to kflaniga@cub.kcnet.org.
Agencies, Institutions & Programs
Agencies
- Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation - PA DEP
- Bureau of Mining & Reclamation - PA DEP
- Bureau of Watershed Management - PA DEP
- http://www.dep.state.pa.us/dep/deputate/watermgt/wc/wc.htm
- Clinton County Conservation District
- DCNR
- DEP Northcentral Region - Williamsport, PA
- EPA
- EPA Surf Your Watershed
- EPA Community-Based Environmental Protection
- The Moshannon District Mining Office
- NRCS - USDA
- Office of Water Management - PA DEP
- Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
- Susquehanna River Basin Commission
- US Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Division
- U.S. Dept. of the Interior - Abandoned Mine Land Inventory System (AMLIS)
- U.S. Dept. of the Interior - Clean Streams Initiative
- U.S. Dept. of the Interior - Office of Surface Mining
- USDA Water Quality Information
Institutions
Programs
- Growing Greener Program - PA DEP
- Reclaim PA - Pennsylvania's Abandoned Mine Reclamation and Well Plugging Program - PA DEP
- PA Stream ReLeaf
Organizations
Chesapeake Bay
Watershed Networks
Watershed Groups
- American River Watershed Group
- Beech Creek Watershed Association
- DEP Pilot-Watershed Management Projects - Info on 18 PA Watershed Groups/Projects
- Des Plaines Watershed
- Fishing Creek Watershed Association - Columbia County
- Friends of the Cheat
- Johnson Creek Watershed Council
- Kettle Creek Watershed Association
- Lackawanna River Corridor Association
- Monday Creek
- Monocacy Creek
- Mountain Watershed Association
- National Showcase Watersheds - EPA/OWOS
- S.C.R.A.
- Slocan Valley Watershed Archive
- Spring Creek Watershed Community
- Swatara Creek
- White Clay Watershed Association
Watershed Councils / Alliances / Commissions / Conservancies / Coalitions / Organizations
- Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
- ClearWater Conservancy
- Kentucky Watershed Alliance
- Michigan Lake and Stream Associations, Inc.
- Minnesota Association of Watershed Districts
- Pennsylvania Environmental Council
- POWR - Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers, Inc.
- Rivers Alliance of Connecticut
- South Santiam Watershed Council
- Watershed Management Council
- Western PA Coaliyion for Abandoned Mine Reclamation
Funding / Grant Sources
Fundraising
Grants
- Abandoned Mine Land Program - U. S. Office of Surface Mining
- ARC Online Resource Center
- Bureau of Watershed Conservation Watershed and Nonpoint Source Management
- Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection
- Coldwater Heritage Partnership Grants - DCNR (info)
- Community Conservation Partnership Initiative - DCNR
- Cottonwood Foundation
- DEP Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation - Guidelines to Award Abandoned Mine Reclamation Grants
- Growing Greener Programs - DCNR
- Environmental Finance Center
- Environmental Fund for PA
- EPA Grants Information
- EPA Watershed Assistance Grants
- Financial Assistance - EPA WIN
- FirstGov for Non-Profits
- Funding for local acid mine drainage reclamation projects - U.S. Dept. of the Interior
- Funding Sources for Water Quality - USDA
- Funding Sources - River Network
- Growing Greener Grants Center - PA DEP
- Ittleson Foundation
- PA Rivers Conservation Program - DCNR
- Reclaim PA
- Small Watershed Grants Program
- Selection process summary for acid mine drainage
- U.S. Dept. of the Interior - Clean Streams Initiative
- Watershed reclamation project funding opportunities - U.S. Dept. of the Interior
Grant - Technology & Startup
Grant Writing and Information
- A Guidbook of Financial Tools - EPA
- Preparing A Grant Proposal
- The Foundation Center
- CFDA
- Grants Information Query Form
- Growing Greener Grants Center - PA DEP
- Guide to Grant Seeking
Watershed Approach
- Watershed Academy Web
- CRMP
- EPA's Watershed Approach
- Know Your Watershed
- Top 10 Lessons Learned - EPA
- Watershed Approach -- An Introduction - EPA
- Watershed Approach Framework
- Watershed Approach to Acid Mine Drainage Abatement: Sovern Run
- Watershed Focus - Canaan Valley Institute
- Watershed Protection: A Project Focus - EPA
- "We All Live Downstream" Watershed Protection Programs - PA DEP
- Why Watersheds? - Office of Water EPA
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Watershed Assessment
- Compendium of Tools for Watershed Assessment and TMDL
- Interior Watershed Assessment Procedure Guidebook (IWAP)
- Watershed Assessment and Monitoring
Watershed Data Online
- Envirofacts Data Warehouse
- PA DEP eMap - What's In My Watershed
- PA DEP wMapPA
- Chesapeake Bay Data Hub
- Bureau of Watershed Conservation Topic and Contact List - PA DEP
- Compressed Digital Spatial Data Available for Downloading - USGS
- Current and Historical Data Online - USGS
- Current Streamflow Conditions in Pennsylvania
- Envirofacts Warehouse - EPA
- Monitoring Water Quality Information Systems - EPA Office of Water
- Water Resources In PA - USGS
Watershed Education/Training
AMD
- Acid Mine Drainage Experiments
- Hands-on Experiments to test for Acid Mine Drainage - Attn.: Kids and Teachers!
Fluvial Geomorphology and Fluvial Processes
- Applied River Morphology - Rosgen (Book Source)
General Issues & Topics
- PA Watersheds - POWR
- Watershed Academy Web - EPA Office of Water
- Watershed Weekly - GreenWorks
Water Monitoring
- Citizens' Volunteer Monitoring Program - PA DEP - Bureau of Watershed Management
- Volunteer Stream Monitoring: A Methods Manual - EPA Office of Water
Watershed Environmental Companies List
- Borton-Lawson Engineering
- Gannett Fleming, Inc.
- HedinEnvironmental
- Herbert, Rowland & Grubic, Inc.
- Larson Design Group
- Northwest Biosolids Management Association
- Pennsylvania Environmental Green Pages
- Penn Line Service, Inc.
- Skelly and Loy, Inc.
- Slogan Engineering
- Sweetland Engineering & Associates, Inc.
Watershed Group Issues
Building Membership and Support
- Community Tool Box - CTB
- Getting People to Help - ACTION Center
- Getting People to Help II - ACTION Center
- Recruiting and Training Volunteers - CTB
- Using the Internet for Activism - ACTION Center
- Top 10 Lessons Learned - EPA
Meetings and Group Processes
Public Information, Relations and Communications
- Stream Care Guide - River Network
- Tips for Effective Letters and Phone Calls - 20/20 Vision
- Using the Media Effectively - 20/20 Vision
Watershed Law and Issues
- Basic Laws Related to Water - EPA WIN
- Environmental Law - Virtual Chase
- Environmental Law: an overview
- Redefining Progress: Recommendations from the 21st Century Environment Commission
- Trading in Watersheds - EPA/OWOW
- The Pennsylvania Bulletin
- The Pennsylvania CODE
Watershed Mapping / Data / GIS
Aerial Remote Sensing/Photography
- TerraServer - Microsoft
- USGS TerraServer
- Explore PA: DOQ Image Server: - PASDA - Pennsylvania Quadrangles
- Availability of USGS Geospatial Data and Aerial Photography Products - USGS
- USGS NED Shaded Relief Imagery Data
Data - Census
Data - Coal
- Coal Directory - PASDA
- Historical Bituminous coal seam, mining and permit data for PA by Quadrangle - PASDA
Data - Environmental
- Envirofacts Data Warehouse
- Environmental Atlas - EPA
- Environmental & Conservation - PASDA
- Find Environmental Data and Maps - EPA WIN
- Geographic Information Systems - eFACTS-SPATIAL - PA DEP
- PennDoT - PASDA
- Surf Your Watershed - EPA
Data - Geospacial
- National Atlas of the United States - Other Data Available - US Dept. of Interior
- PA Spacial Data Access Explore PA - PASDA - DOQ's DRG's - Data Online or FTP
- PA Quadrangle Maps - PASDA
- Watershed Information Network - EPA
Data - GIS
- Access Data - Search for Data - PASDA
- GIS Data Depot - Geo Community
- GIS Data for Water Resources - USGS
- GIS Data & Map Server - Canaan Valley Institute
Data - PA Watershed by County
- PA Watersheds by County - PASDA
Historical Maps
Map Creation
- EnviroMapper For Watershed - Interactive Geographic Interface Version 2.0 - EPA
- Interactive Mapping and Data Analysis - Various Data Layers - Cornell
- Map Maker - Charles Sturt University
- National Atlas of the United States Map Browser - Other Data Available - US Dept. of Interior
- Tiger Map Server Browser
- Map Reference
- Geography - USGS
- CGRER: GeoSpatial Technology - University of Iowa
Map Tools
- ArcExplorer Download - GIS Data Viewer - ERSI
- BASINS 3.1 - EPA - Office of Water
- Calculator for Distances between Geographical Locations
- Find Terminal Coordinates Given a Bearing and a Distance - FCC
- Distance and Azimuths Between 2 Sets of Coordinates - FCC
- Marine Navigation Calculator
- Welcome to GIS's Tools - Converts Map Scales/Areas/Distances/Lat.Long. - University of Texas
Street Maps
Watershed Monitoring
Water Monitoring
- Citizens' Volunteer Monitoring Program - PA DEP - Bureau of Watershed Management
- Volunteer Stream Monitoring: A Methods Manual - EPA Office of Water
Watershed Planning
- California Coordinated Resource Management and Planning Handbook
- DCNR Watershed Planning - (Search For Watershed Planning)
- Identifying Watershed Problems
- Ontario Streams - (Select Toolbox)
- Setting Priorities and Developing an Action Plan
- Watershed Assistance Checklist
- Watershed Management Dos and Don'ts
- WITS - Watershed Planning
Watershed Sample Plans
- A model plan for waterhsed restoration - PA DEP BAMR
- CERES
Watershed Pollution
Nonpoint Source
- Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials - NEMO
- Nonpoint Source Pollution Homepage - EPA, Office of Water
- Non-point Source Water Pollution - NACo
- Watershed and Nonpoint Source Management - PA DEP, Bureau of Watershed Conservation
- What is Nonpoint Source (NPS) Pollution? Questions and Answers - EPA, Office of Water
Point Source
- eF.A.C.T.S. - PA DEP
- Office of Wastewater Management - EPA, Office of Water
- Office of Wastewater Management Index - EPA, Office of Water
- Point Source 40 CFR 122.2 - EPA Region 6 (Clean Water Act)
Watershed Restoration
AMD - Acid Mine Drainage
- Acid Mine Drainage - Environmental Mining Council of British Columbia
- Acid Mine Drainage Remediation Projects
- Acid Mine Drainage Treatment
- Acid Mine Drainage Treatment - Bucknell
- Overview of Acid Mine Drainage Treatment with Chemicals
- Acid Producing Potential of Mine Overburden
- Acid Rock Drainage - Enviromine
- Allegheny-Monongahela National Water-Quality Assessment (NAWQA) - USGS
- AMD & MEND Program
- AMD Resource Recovery Seperation Technologies
- What is Acid Mine Drainage?
- Bureau of Abandoned Mine Reclamation - PA DEP
- Bureau of Mining & Reclamation - PA DEP
- Coal ash--an environmental bonus
- Coal-Mine-Drainage Projects in Pennsylvania - USGS
- Coal Mining in Pennsylvania - PA DEP
- Effect of Digestion Method, Siderite Content, and Fizz Rating on Neutralization Potential of Overburden Samples
- Effects of Nutrients on the Formation of Acidic Mine Drainage - USGS
- Environmental Behavior of Mineral Deposits - USGS
- Environmental Chemistry
- Evaluation of Limestone Treatment of Acidic Mine Drainage in Swatara Creek Basin
- Financial Incentives for Remining and Adopting Orphaned Wells
- Groundwork AMD
- The Impact of Abandoned Mines on Pennsylvania's Environment
- Limestone Drains to Increase pH and Remove Dissolved Metals from an Acidic Coal-Mine Discharge in the Swatara Creek Watershed
- Maryland Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage
- MEND
- Mine Drainage FAC - USGS
- Mine Drainage Interest Group (MDIG) - USGS
- Mine Water and the Environment
- A model plan for watershed restoration - PA DEP BAMR
- Office of Surface Mining - U.S. Dept. of Interior
- Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement
- Pennsylvania's Comprehensive Plan for Abandoned Mine Reclamation - PA DEP/BAMR
- Quantitative analysis of chemical and biological kinetics for the acid mine drainage problem
- The Science of Acid Mine Drainage and Passive Treatment - PA DEP BAMR
- Solutions to AMD - SCRIP
- Some Passive and Semi-Passive Treatment Methods - SCRA
- Overview of Passive Systems for Treating Acid Mine Drainage
- National Mine Land Reclamation Center
AMD Technology
- Acid Mine Drainage Experiments
- Passive treatment technologies
- Restoration of Stream Water Degraded by Acid Mine Drainage
- Sewage Sludge as an organic amendment for reclaiming surface mine wastes
- The Science of Acid Mine Drainage and Passive Treatment - PA DEP BAMR
- The Stonycreek River and Little Conemaugh River Acid Mine Drainage Study
- Technology - What Can We Do - HTP
- Toxic Mine Drainage Chemistry and Treatment
- USGS Energy Resources Surveys Program Project Descriptions
- USGS Mine Drainage Interest Group (MDIG)
- Water Pollution by John A. Arway
- Watershed Information Resource System (WIRS) Database - EPA
- Watershed Restoration - EPA Office of Water
- Introduction to Constructed Wetlands Bibliography
- Wetlands for Treatment of Mine Drainage
Ecological & Habitat
- Biosolids - PA DEP
- Community Forest Buffer Planting Projects
- Ecological Restoration - EPA
- Environmental and Restoration Web Sites
- Fish-stream identification Guidebook - Forest Practices
- Ontario Streams - (Select Toolbox)
- Recommendation for Tree Planting on Surface Mined Lands
- Related Websites - Stream Team
- River Corridor and Wetlands Restoration - EPA
- Stream Corridor Restoration
- Stream Corridor Restoration Online
- Watershed Restoration Program
- Habitat Restoration
Fluvial Geomorphology and Fluvial Processes
- Applied River Morphology - Rosgen (Book Source)
Water Quality
- 1998 303(d) LIST PART A Streams State Water Plans 7A to 9C - PA DEP - Beech Creek (tribs.) in 09-C of State Water Plans.
- Application of the Microbial and Spectral Reflectance Technique (MAST) to the Identification of Acid Mine Drainage - USGS
- Citizens' Volunteer Monitoring Program (Handbook) - Bureau of Conservation PA DEP
- Field Analytic Technologies Encyclopedia - EPA, US Army Corp of Engineers
- Hydrogeology and Geochemistry of Acid Mine Drainage in Ground Water - USGS
- Monitoring Water Quality - EPA Office of Water
- PA DEP Office of Water Management
- Toxic Substances Hydrology Program - USGS
- TMDL Program - EPA Office of Water
- Use of tracer injections and synoptic sampling to measure metal loading from acid mine drainage - USGS
- Water Quality Assessment and Standards - Bureau of Watershed Conservation Fact Sheets PA DEP
- Water-Quality Information -- Field Methods/Techniques
Watershed Registries
- Directory of National Organizations
- Pennsylvania Conservation Directory
- River and Watershed Conservation Directory
- Watershed Registry is Operating: Links Watershed Project Workers
Watershed Terminology
- Glossary of Stream / Water Related Terms -StreamNet
- GLOSSARY - Mining Terms
- Know Your Watershed
- Recommended Watershed Terminology
- Terms of the Environment - EPA
- What is a Watershed? - EPA
- What is a Watershed?