Conservation & Rehabilitation
In our hands, we hold the power to protect, conserve, restore and rehabilitate our creek. JCWA works with many partners to complete large and small projects in our watershed. Click for link to our Project work.
Natural Resources
Through the dedication to research, sampling, monitoring and analysis, JCWA is working hard to understand the ecology of our creek. Data drives our work and our projects. Click for link to our stream conditions website.
Education & Recreation
Through education and recreation, we bring people to the creek or the creek to our students. People use the creek from a variety of recreational outlets, JCWA host events focused on that shared resource. Click here for Recreation.
Riparian buffers are essential to a healthy stream and healthy watershed🌳 They contain trees, shrubs and perennial plants which:
-Filter nutrients, pesticides and animal waste from agricultural land runoff
-Stabilize eroding banks
-Filter sediment from runoff
-Shade, shelter and feed fish and other aquatic organisms
-and so much more!
Learn more about how buffers protect our streams here:
science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/conservation/issues/riparian-buffers.htm?fbclid=IwAR3yBbf...
How Riparian Buffers Work to Save Your Local Waterways
science.howstuffworks.com
Riparian buffers are critical for protecting our local waterways from polluted runoff. So what exactly are they and how do they work?JCWA's Spring Tire Round Up was so successful that we planned another one for this Fall! Find some tires around our watershed and JCWA will dispose of them for FREE on October 2nd at American Architectural Salvage. Registration is required!
Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/168761204305
Fall bird migration is under way🕊On Sept 9th, an estimated 14 million birds flew over PA! Tonight there will be 3.4 million. Do your part and turn off your outdoor lights from midnight-6am.
To learn more about bird migration forecasts:
birdcast.info/
aeroecolab.com/pennsylvania
And to learn more about the specific actions that you can take to help migratory birds in Pennsylvania:
birdsafepgh.org/lights-out-pittsburgh/
Jacobs Creek Watershed Association will be accepting sealed bids for the Mount Pleasant Main Street Sidewalk Project until 1:00 PM, local prevailing time, on September 23, 2021 at our office.
Please contact Taylor Robbins at taylor@jacobscreekwatershed.org to receive digital bid documents and to ask any questions or concerns. Thank you.
Fall is the perfect time to find macroinvertebrates in our streams. Join JCWA for Macro Mondays and we'll show you how to find and identify these amazing creatures🦞 All ages are welcome!
Register for free here: www.eventbrite.com/e/166171281777
