Current Projects:

Workdays: The chapter has been holding monthly workdays on the Saturday following our regularly scheduled membership meetings. Projects along Valley and West Valley Creeks have included streamside cleanups and debris removal. See the calendar section for scheduled dates and signup information.

 

Grants

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation has funded two grants in the past two years. In 2004 a riparian buffer restoration in Valley Forge National Historical Park was funded. The majority of the work was performed in the spring of 2004 using six partnering groups. There is some remedial work remaining to be done by the end of April 2005 due to storm damage this past fall.

For 2005 the NF&WF awarded a grant to retrofit a stormwater retention basin. The work is underway with East Whiteland Township providing an operator and a backhoe, and Cahill Associates of West Chester, PA doing the analysis and design work.

The William Penn Foundation accepted our grant application and funded a six-month grant to support the Valley Creek Restoration Partnership to develop a model watershed restoration plan for the Crabby Creek sub-basin. The work is being performed by LandStudies of Lititz, PA and is to be completed this summer.

A Growing Greener application was submitted in March 2005 for a restoration plan and permitting of a section of Crabby Creek. This was a continuation of the work begun with the William Penn Foundation Grant above.

Embrace-A-Stream has funded two successive years of grant applications. In 2004 it funded two Summits for the Valley Creek Restoration Partnership. In 2005 it has funded the purchasing of stream temperature monitors.