Mark your calendar for the 2013 Yough Defense Party on November 21, 2013 at the Falls City Pub in Ohiopyle! Join us for great food & drinks, silent auction items including handmade and local art and lots of river gear, …
Buy Your 2014 Lottery Calendar Now!
2014 Lottery Calendars have arrived! Our 2014 Lottery Calendars feature full-color photographs of the Indian Creek watershed from local photographer Stephen Simpson of Highlands Art Gallery. Lottery calendars are $30 each and offer 365 chances to win your money back. …
Make a Donation on October 3!
Please consider making a contribution to MWA on October 3, the Westmoreland Day of Giving! Sponsored by the Community Foundation of Westmoreland County, through this annual event the Foundation provides a partial match to donations made through the www.westmorelandgives.org website …
We’re Hiring!
Join our team! We are currently accepting resumes for a full-time Community Advocate. Applicants must possess a Juris Doctorate Degree with a certificate or experience in environmental law, be enthusiastic and motivated self-starters, and be outgoing and able to work …
Yough Water Quality Info Available on Swim Guide
Through our comprehensive water quality monitoring program, we are documenting baseline water quality throughout the watershed. We sample quarterly for several different parameters, one of which is E. coli. E. coli is a bacterium found in the intestines of humans …
Ground Truth Sleuthing
People volunteering with our Marcellus Citizen Stewardship Project (MCSP) are ‘ground truth’ sleuths…or aspiring ones anyway. What is ground truth? It’s a phrase used to describe “the reality of a tactical situation as opposed to what intelligence reports and mission …
Fossil Free Energy Fair
Rather than a “bridge fuel” that may help us transition to a renewable energy future, some scientists argue that deep shale natural gas, now accessible using high volume, slickwater, horizontal “fracking,” is actually a “bridge to nowhere.” After billions of …
Monitoring Water Quality in the Yough
We spent much of last week conducting our quarterly water sampling in the Yough. We sample 17 sites from the mouth in Allegheny County upstream into Maryland. We sample nine locations along the main stem and on eight major tributaries– …
Deep Mining in Donegal & Saltlick?
Several years ago LCT Energy submitted a Notice of Intent to Explore (NOI) to the PA Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) for an underground mine in the Donegal & Saltlick areas of the Indian Creek watershed– an area often referred …
Cause for Pause on Shale Gas– Join us on July 11
“Energy independence.” “Family-sustaining jobs.” “Transition to renewable energy.” – These have been the promises made to residents in shale states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, Maryland, and West Virginia since the ‘fracking boom’ came to the northeastern United States several …