ADVISORY – BLOOMSBURG – TUESDAY – DEP to Announce $245,000 Grant for Kinney Run Watershed Improvements

Bloomsburg, PA - Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Northcentral Region Acting Director Jared Dressler will join Columbia County Conservation District and Town of Bloomsburg leaders on Tuesday to announce $245,000 in Growing Greener grant funding for projects to improve water quality in the Kinney Run Watershed.

Kinney Run, an impaired tributary to the Susquehanna River, is a small, urbanized watershed that frequently experiences flooding. The Growing Greener grant will fund three small, interconnected projects within the watershed to reduce stormwater runoff, non-point source pollution, and erosion. The projects will enhance aquatic and pollinator habitats and establish a new public nature park with educational signage.

Media are invited to attend the event, which will begin at the Bloomsburg Recycling Center and include traveling short distances by vehicle to view the outdoor project sites on Kinney Run, weather permitting. Boots are recommended.

WHAT:DEP to Announce $245,000 Grant for Kinney Run Watershed Improvements

WHEN:Tuesday, January 25, 2022; 2:00 PM

WHERE: Bloomsburg Recycling Center, 901 Patterson Drive, Bloomsburg, PA 17815

RSVP:Please RSVP to Megan Lehman so that all attendees may be updated in the event of any necessary changes due to weather or other circumstances.

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