The Berks County Conservation District has received a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to make water quality improvements.<\/p>\n
It was announced Tuesday that the conservation district would receive $317,872 for the Upper Little Swatara Creek watershed implementation plan project in Bethel Township.<\/p>\n
The money will be used to perform streambank restoration on Crosskill Creek and install agricultural best management practices on an unnamed tributary to Little Swatara Creek. The project is part of a yearslong water quality monitoring program to determine and evaluate progress.<\/p>\n
It was one of eight projects across Pennsylvania awarded grants focused on improving water quality and restoring impaired watersheds.<\/p>\n
\u201cClean water is vital to community health and a fundamental right of every Pennsylvanian,\u201d said DEP Secretary Jessica Shirley. \u201cThese projects are examples of good stewardship and best practices to create healthier streams and wetlands, reduce flood risk and improve fish and wildlife habitat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Berks County Conservation District has received a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to make…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,1131,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-37830","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-reading-city","14":"tag-reading-city-headlines","15":"tag-reading-city-news","16":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}