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Group Name: Alumni/ Rowan Ce Programs
Contact: T. Ryan Priestley
Contact Address: #2
Sicklerville, NEW JERSEY 08081
Contact Phone: (856)562-1145
Contact Email: mgpriestley@gmail.com
Activity: Restoration/Conservation Project
Description: To monitor local watersheds emptying into the New Brooklyn lake and local ponds/wetlands. Semi-annual assessments of waterway, organisms and trees in Pineland habitats on numerous surrounding acres.
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Group Name: Brandywine Valley Association - StreamWatch
Contact: Jane Fava & Robyn Wood
Contact Address: 1760 Unionville-Wawaset Rd
West Chester, PENNSYLVANIA 19382-6751
Contact Phone: 610-793-1090
Contact Email: water@bva-rcva.org
URL: http://www.brandywinewatershed.org/
Activity: Education Project/Program
Description: Volunteer stream monitoring program, habitat assessment ad stream health monitoring in the Brandywine Creek watershed.
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Group Name: Chester Ridley Crum Watersheds Association
Contact: Carl DuPoldt
Contact Address: P.O. Box 972
Edgemont, PENNSYLVANIA 19028-0972
Contact Email: cdupoldt@bellatlantic.net
URL: http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/crcwa/home.html
Activity: Watershed Alliance/Council
Description: To support, encourage, and promote the enjoyment, restoration, protection,and prudent management of the natural resources of the Chester, Ridley, and Crum Creek watersheds.
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Group Name: Crum Ridley Chester Volunteer Monitoring Program (CRCVMP)
Contact: Frank Dowman; Bruce Grant; Barbara Grove; Peter Weber
Contact Address: 229 E. Roland Rd.
Parkside, Pennsylvania 19015-
Contact Phone: 610 872-8054
Contact Email: FDow@aol.com
URL: http://www.science.widener.edu/~grant/crc/crc_main.html
Activity: Volunteer Monitoring
Description: The Crum Ridley Chester Volunteer Monitoring Program does monitoring once a month on various points on Chester, Ridley, and Crum Creeks for chemical parameters, and twice a year for biological data (macroinvertebrates). Selected coliform monitoring is done in the vicinity of sewage treatment plants and sewage interceptor lines.
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Group Name: Darby Creek Valley Association
Contact: Carol Killmaier
Contact Address: 476 Southcroft Rd.
Springfield, Pennsylvania 19064-
Contact Phone: 610 690-1632
URL: http://www.dcva.org/
Activity: Volunteer Monitoring
Description: DCVA Stream Watch monitors streams in the Darby Creek watershed in southeast Pennsylvania. We use benthic macroinvertebrates as the primary indicator of stream health, and also evaluate stream habitat and monitor a few chemical parameters. We hope to monitor 5 sites at least once a year. We hold fiels days for menbers and volunteers, give workshops on macroinvertebate identification, and work to involve local schools.
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Group Name: Federation of Gloucester County Watersheds
Contact: Suzzane McCarthy
Contact Address: P.O. Box 233
Glassboro, New Jersey 08028-
Contact Phone: -
URL: http://www.sjwatersheds.org/
Activity: Volunteer Monitoring
Description:
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Group Name: Friends of Poquessing Watershed
Contact: Dianne Welsh Retzbach or Donna Remick
Contact Address: PO Box 11552
Philadelphia, PENNSYLVANIA 19116
Contact Phone: office - (215)972-6275, fax - 215-632-2549
Contact Email: friendsofpoquessing@juno.com
URL: http://www.friendsofpoquessing.org/
Activity: Watershed Alliance/Council
Description: To protect the Poquessing Watershed thorugh action and education. Chemical and physical monitoring.
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Group Name: Lower Merion Conservancy
Contact: Patricia Thompson
Contact Address: 1301 Rose Glen Road
Gladwyne, PENNSYLVANIA 19035
Contact Phone: 610-645-9030
Contact Email: programs@dragonfly.org
URL: http://www.lmconservancy.org
Activity: Volunteer Monitoring
Description: Lower Merion Conservancy volunteers monitor the streams within Lower Merion Township. Many of the streams flow directly into the Schuykill River. A few flow into Cobbs Creek and eventually into the Delaware River. We use Surber samplers to collect macroinvertebrates each April. Volunteers conduct chemical tests at their sites weekly, as well as habitat assessments. We were trained by Stroud Water Research Center, a research laboratory of the Academy of Natuaral Sciences in Philadelphia.
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Group Name: Mantua Creek Watershed Association
Contact: Paul Greger
Contact Address: P.O. Box 156
Glassboro, New Jersey 08028-
Contact Phone: 856-881-9540
URL: http://www.sjwatersheds.org
Activity: Volunteer Monitoring
Description: Environmental Education, Natural Resource Inventory, Land Trust, Stream & Lake Water Monitoring, Development of Municipl Land Use, Ordinances Relative to Environmental Preservation and Protection, Outdoor Recreation Promoting Preservation, Resource Inventory and Land Conservation, More
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Group Name: Monach Lake
Contact: Robert Stemmermann
Contact Address: 20 Bancroft Lane
Hainesport, NEW JERSEY 08036
Contact Phone: 609-471-1164
Contact Email: stemm43@gmail.com
Activity: Volunteer Monitoring
Description: Visually Monitor water Quality, animal and plant life in Monarch Lake
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Group Name: Monach Lake
Contact: Robert Stemmermann
Contact Address: 20 Bancroft Lane
Hainesport, NEW JERSEY 08036
Contact Phone: 609-471-1164
Contact Email: stemm43@gmail.com
Activity: Volunteer Monitoring
Description: Visually Monitor water Quality, animal and plant life in Monarch Lake
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Group Name: Nature Conservancy - Pennsylvania Field Office
Contact: Cary Nicholas
Contact Address: 1100 E. Hector St., Suite 470
Conshohocken, PENNSYLVANIA 19428-2374
Contact Phone: 610-369-7867
Contact Email: sfanok@aol.com
URL: http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/pennsylvania/
Activity: Watershed Alliance/Council
Description: Preservation of fur community.
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Group Name: New Jersey Pinelands Commission
Contact: Terrence D. Moore, Executive Director
Contact Address: PO Box 7
New Lisbon, NEW JERSEY 08064
Contact Phone: 609-894-9342
Contact Email: tmoore@njpines.state.nj.us
URL: http://www.state.nj.us/pinelands/
Activity: Watershed Alliance/Council
Description: The Commission oversees the 19 rivers designated wild and scenic within the Pinelands National Reserve.
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Group Name: Old Pine Farm Natural Lands Trust, Inc.
Contact: Joan Tracy
Contact Address: 340 Pine Avenue
Deptford, NEW JERSEY 08096
Contact Phone: 856-232-1109
URL: http://www.bigtimbercreek.org/
Activity: Watershed Alliance/Council
Description: Preserve the Big Timber Creek watershed, especially the parcels of relatively undeveloped wetlands and floodplains along the creek--to build and extend the greenway; secondarily, provide limited public access to some of the only open space left in the developed region.
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Group Name: Open Land Conservancy of Chester Co
Contact: Mitsie Toland
Contact Address: PO Box 1031
Paoli, PENNSYLVANIA 19301
Contact Phone: 215-647-5380
Activity: Watershed Alliance/Council
Description: Land Trust - open space preservation, including stream corriders, etc. Active in Valley Creek Coalition on all issues affecting the VC Watershed.
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Group Name: PA CleanWays
Contact: Barb Smerkar
Contact Address: 105 West Fourth Street
Greensburg, PENNSYLVANIA 15601-2981
Contact Phone: 724-836-4121 ext 10
Contact Email: bsmerkar@pacleanways.org
URL: http://www.pacleanways.org
Activity: Other
Description: PA CleanWays, Inc. is a non-profit organization that helps people who are ready to take action against illegal dumping and littering in their communities. Since 1990, PA CleanWays has been dedicated to empowering people to resolve and prevent these destructive problems. The core programs of PA CleanWays revolve around cleanups, education, adoption, beautification, and proper disposal. Our experience shows that local involvement, partnerships, and support are vital to lasting success in address......More...
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Group Name: PA CleanWays
Contact: Shannon Reiter - President
Contact Address: 105 West Fourth Street
Greensburg, PENNSYLVANIA 15601-2981
Contact Phone: 724-836-4121
Contact Email: info@pacleanways.org
URL: http://www.pacleanways.org
Activity: Other
Description: PA CleanWays, Inc. is a non-profit organization that helps people who are ready to take action against illegal dumping and littering in their communities. Since 1990, PA CleanWays has been dedicated to empowering people to resolve and prevent these destructive problems. The core programs of PA CleanWays revolve around cleanups, education, adoption, beautification, and proper disposal. Our experience shows that local involvement, partnerships, and support are vital to lasting success in address......More...
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Group Name: Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
Contact: Larry Williamson
Contact Address: Bureau of Recreat'n & Conservt'n, Rachel Carson State Office Bldg, PO Box 8475
Harrisburg, PENNSYLVANIA 17105
Contact Phone: 717-783-2658
URL: http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/
Activity: Other
Description: To protect and enhance the Commonwealth's rivers, streams and other water resources through technical assistance and grants to communities and nonprofit organizations for rivers conservation projects and partnerships.
The Rivers Conservation Program has given grants and technical assistance to more than 80 watershed organizations, non-profit organizations, or municipalities statewide to develop comprehensive river conservation plans on a watershed basis. From very small subwatersheds encompassi......More...
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Group Name: Pennypack Ecological Restoration Trust
Contact: David Robertson
Contact Address: 2955 Edge Hill Road
Huntingdon Valley, PENNSYLVANIA 19006
Contact Phone: 215-657-0830
Contact Email: pennypacktrust@highstream.net.
URL: http://www.pennypacktrust.org/
Activity: Watershed Alliance/Council
Description: To develop and put into practice methods for restoring and preserving the ecological values of the central Pennypack Creek watershed such that the Trust becomes recognized as a center of excellence in natural area management.
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Group Name: Philadelphia Watershed Alliance
Contact: Charles Parsons, President
Contact Address: 6101 Morris Street, Apt 517
Philadelphia, PENNSYLVANIA 19144
Contact Phone: 215-843-0749
Contact Email: phila.watersheds@gmail.com
Activity: Other
Description: Philadelphia Watershed Alliance is a private watchdog and advocacy group. We are dedicated to promoting clean and healthy streams throughout the City of Philadelphia. We are not a fund raising organization and we do not sponsor, promote, endorse, or in any way encourage volunteer activities.
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Group Name: Philadelphia Watershed Alliance
Contact: Charles Parsons, President
Contact Address: 6101 Morris Street
Philadelphia, PENNSYLVANIA 19144
Contact Phone: 215-843-0749
Contact Email: phila.watersheds@gmail.com
Activity: Other
Description: Philadelphia Watershed Alliance is a private watchdog and advocacy group. Our purpose is to promote clean and healthy streams throughout the City of Philadelphia. We are not a fund raising organization and we do no sponsor, endorse or promote volunteer activities
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Group Name: Pompeston Creek Watershed Association
Contact: Debbie Lord
Contact Address: P.O. Box 2883
Cinnaminson, NEW JERSEY 08077
Contact Phone: 856-235-9204
URL: http://www.pompestoncreek.org
Activity: Education Project/Program
Description: Our mission is to promote the restoration and conservation of the natural resources of the Pompeston Creek and its watershed; to protect and conserve animal life, forest and other plant life, water sources, and soils; to encourage understanding of the need for such conservation through education, scientific investigations & research.
The Association has been Monitoring water quality at upstream site in Moorestown since 1998 (volunteer monitoring for Delaware Riverkeeper Network). Our work was h......More...
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Group Name: Radnor Middle School
Contact: Ed Silcox; Mark Springer
Contact Address: 131 South Wayne Ave.
Wayne, PENNSYLVANIA 19087
Contact Phone: 610 688-8100 271
Contact Email: edsilcox@itrc.dciu.k12.pa.us
Activity: Volunteer Monitoring
Description: Radnor Middle School's WATERSHED program is a thematic, integrated academic program in which 36 randomly selected students spend the school year studying a local watershed. Students study the history, geology, and human use of the watershed, and also perform frequent water quality monitoring.
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Group Name: Rancocas Conservancy
Contact: Barbara Rich
Contact Address: PO Box 2188
Vincentown, NEW JERSEY 08088
Contact Phone: (609) 859-8860 ext.17
Contact Email: rancocas@bigfoot.com
URL: http://www.rancocasconservancy.org
Activity: Other
Description: The Rancocas Conservancy works to protect the Rancocas Creek watershed through land preservation and environmental education. Since its founding in 1991, the Conservancy has preserved over 1,000 acres of land.
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Group Name: Red Clay Valley Association Inc.
Contact: Robert G. Struble Jr
Contact Address: 1760 Unionville-Wawaset Road
West Chester, PENNSYLVANIA 19382
Contact Phone: 610-793-1090
Contact Email: bvareva@worldaxes.com
URL: http://www.redclayvalley.org/
Activity: Restoration/Conservation Project
Description: The Red Clay Valley Association (RCVA), the second oldest small watershed organization in America, was founded in 1952 by a group of Delaware and Pennsylvania residents for the purpose of protection and conservation of the natural resources in the Red Clay Watershed.
The Red Clay Valley, through which 43 million gallons of water flow daily, encompasses fifty-five square miles of rolling hills, woodlands, and farms in Chester County, Pennsylvania and New Castle County, Delaware. The valley is th......More...
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Group Name: Senior Environment Corps
Contact: Jean Holland
Contact Address: Center in the Park, 5818 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PENNSYLVANIA 19144
Contact Phone: (215) 848-7722
Contact Email: CIPSEC@ aol.com
URL: http://www.easi.org
Activity: Volunteer Monitoring
Description: Water Quality Monitoring by Senior Citizens in a Pilot Project in Pennsylvania. We also focus on intergenerational education and mentoring by partnering with local school groups..
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Group Name: Southampton Watershed Association
Contact: Lola Biuckians
Contact Address: 939 Street Road
Southampton, OREGON 18966
Contact Phone: 215 322 8684
Contact Email: veeshab@aol.com
URL: http://www.southamptonpa.com/swa/
Activity: Watershed Alliance/Council
Description: Produced an award winning educational video about Southampton's watersheds. Our purpose is to educate our residents and participate in projects that improve the quality of water and life in the watersheds.
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Group Name: Springside School Biology Classes
Contact: Scott Stein
Contact Address: 8000 Cherokee St.
Philadelphia, PENNSYLVANIA 19118
Contact Phone: 215 247-7200
Contact Email: sstein@springside.org
URL: http://www.springside.org
Activity: Volunteer Monitoring
Description: Springside School Biology Classes monitor Wissahickon Creek in Wissahickon watershed. In addition to water quality studies, we use the EPA's Environmental Justice Assessment Tool to try to determine how local land use is impacting the stream health. l. Articles published in 1)The Science Teacher, 12/98 - "Stream Studies" 2)Chestnut Hill Local
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Group Name: Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership, Inc.
Contact: Sarah Robbgrieco, Executive Director
Contact Address: One Awbury Road
Philadelphia, PENNSYLVANIA 19138
Contact Phone: 215-208-1613
Contact Email: info@ttfwatershed.org
URL: http://www.ttfwatershed.org
Activity: Watershed Alliance/Council
Description: The Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership (TTF) acts as the crucial link connecting residents, businesses and government as neighbors and stewards of this impaired, but critically important watershed in the Philadelphia metro region. Through educational programming, community outreach, networking services, and project coordination, TTF facilitates, supports, and initiates efforts to restore the health of the watershed, and to mobilize its communities as watershed stewards. Mission State......More...
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Group Name: Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association
Contact: David S. Froehlich
Contact Address: 12 Morris Road
Ambler, PENNSYLVANIA 19002
Contact Phone: 215-646-8866
Contact Email: wvwa@aol.com
URL: http://www.wvwa.org
Activity: Watershed Alliance/Council
Description: To protect the quality and the beauty of the Wissahickon Creek and to enhance life in the Wissahickon watershed.
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