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.
Happy International Women's Day! IWD is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.
Today we celebrate the fact that JCWA is proudly run and operated by an all women staff who continues to uphold our mission of conserving our natural resources, rehabilitating the creek and watershed, environmental education and recreation!
Thank you for your support and make sure to #choosetochallenge inequality and celebrate women's achievements🤝
Update: As of 3/8/2021, all spots have been filled. We will not accept walk ins. We will update you if more spots become available. Thank you to everyone who registered.
JCWA and American Architectural Salvage will be collecting tires on March 27th. Organize a dumpsite clean up or bring tires that you have lying around to the round up and JCWA will dispose of them properly at no charge to you.
Signs will direct you to a drop off location. Pull up in your vehicle to the drop off site. Volunteers will be available to help remove tires from your vehicle. Limit of 8 tires/person.
JCWA will only accept whole, regular sized tires. Examples of items that will not be accepted: pieces of tires, tractor tires, etc....
Bringing in tires to be disposed of properly will help decrease pollution in our waterways and watershed. Tires are also known to hold stagnant water which create the perfect mosquito breeding ground. Properly disposing of tires will decrease mosquito populations and the spread of disease.
Walk ins are welcome but registration is highly encouraged to ensure your tires will be accepted.
JCWA can only accept so many tires. If you do not register, there is a chance you will be turned away.
Register for this event here: www.eventbrite.com/e/jcwa-tire-round-up-tickets-144501103691?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=so...
Wearing a mask and social distancing a required for this event.
Only 11 days left to pre-order your bird seed! Bird Seed Pick Up will be March 30th to April 1st, 10am - 3pm. If you are not able to make the local pick up day, simply message us and we can make arrangements!
Fill out an order form OR purchase your seed online here: www.eventbrite.com/e/jcwa-bird-seed-sale-tickets-141372429743?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=s...
Order Form: drive.google.com/file/d/1bkqBKdL6wxEWo9l7oIBI7-aZcTyAHrz-/view?fbclid=IwAR0c5qubb1haKicmKnSknoAog...
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JCWA has partnered with Wild Birds Unlimited to bring high quality bird seed to your backyard feeder.JCWA is proud to announce that we are working with Shop N Save Mount Pleasant to install green infrastructure which will decrease flooding in the area and increase the health of our streams and watershed!
Catch basins and rain gardens will be installed in the Shop N Save parking lot which will collect rain/stormwater, which would normally flow over hard surfaces and into our streams, and allow it to absorb into the ground. This will decrease flooding on the property and add to the beauty of our watershed.
Construction mobilization will start this week with work to begin Monday, March 8th. This project is scheduled to be finished by the end of May.
JCWA is excited to get this project started and continue to uphold our mission of conserving and rehabilitating our watershed.
To learn more about this project and green infrastructure, view the information sheets below!
JCWA is proud to be a partner of Municipal Authority of Westmoreland County Source Water Protection Action Plan which has been NATIONALLY recognized as a Source Water Protection Collaborative.
MAWC's SWP vision is to "engage communities of both place and interest to preserve, protect, and improve water quality through shared goals and actions in order to provide an ample, clean, and affordable water supply."
Jacobs Creek Watershed is located in MAWC's Source Water Protection area meaning MAWC is always investigating spills, dumping, pesticides and more which may affect our stream water quality and drinking water.
Learn more about MAWC's Source Water Protection Area here: www.mawc.org/swp-info
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Source water protection vision:Engage communities of both place and interest to preserve, protect, and improve water quality through shared goals and actions in order to provide an ample, clean, and a