Water Quality and Management

Recognizing good practices to protect water in your community.

There are lots of ways that you can be actively involved in ensuring clean water for you and your family and for the environment.

Information on silky dogwood and red-osier dogwood, ninebark, buttonbush, elderberry, and pussy willow--species that can be used as live stakes to repair streams.

Publication providing in-detail steps, illustrations, and images to help you repair your eroding backyard stream.

Whether on a farm, in your residential neighborhood, or on public lands, this informative event will cover how to protect one of our most essential resources, water. We will discuss popular best management practices for water quality, how to identify them, and how these practices keep our water clean.

A hands-on, inquiry based activity kit that helps older youth and adults learn about water quality issues in small watersheds and the decision making processes that go into improving those water quality issues.

Flooding is a major concern during large storm events because of the potential for damage to homes, businesses, and roads. Riparian buffer owners also need to inspect for and repair flood damage to their young forests.

Presented by Bernard W. Sweeney, Ph.D. , President and Director of the Stroud Water Research Center

This publication addresses the complex issue of water quality as it is affected by solid wastes that have been mismanaged, including roadside dumps.

Runoff from livestock production facilities can carry potential pollutants that could contaminate water sources. If not managed properly, animal wastes can affect water quality and human health.

Information on stormwater solutions, rain gardens and rain barrels.

Phosphorus is an essential element for plant and animal growth, but too much of it can accelerate the natural aging of lakes and streams.

Vinnie Cotrone reveals the role of forested landscapes and trees in particular in stormwater management and pollution mitigation.

This article explains the benefits of using riparian buffers to protect the health of waterways, livestock, adjacent property, and all who drink and use water downstream.

This footprint calculator will educate users about their consumption of EDC-containing products and help them to identify ways to reduce their footprint.

Hydrilla is a submerged aquatic weed of concern in Pennsylvania.

Using publicly available information, we attempt to track and quantify current water use through the stages of the gas well development process.

Water quality credit trading is a tool for reducing the cost of controlling nutrients and sediments that severely impact streams, rivers, lakes, and estuaries.