WATERSHEDS A watershed is an area of land that drains into a common body of water. Everyone lives in a watershed! Indiana County has an abundance of flowing freshwater; however, much of it is plagued with pollution. The District works to address sources of pollution, including abandoned mine drainage, sediment, and nutrients. Every year the District conducts watershed assessments, develops implementation plans, oversees restoration projects, provides capacity-building technical assistance to watershed organizations, and conducts public education and outreach events. In 2021, the District provided technical assistance to Indiana County’s eight watershed associations, as well as the Ken Sink Chapter of Trout Unlimited and Conemaugh Valley Conservancy. We also worked to plan several future projects and were awarded over $131,000 from the Department of Environmental Protection’s Growing Greener Plus program to assess the Upper Two Lick Watershed and an additional $80,000 from the U.S. Office of Surface Mining to cover construction costs associated with the Lucerne 3A Passive Treatment System.
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2021 Annual Report
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