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Connoquenessing Creek Watershed Conservation PlanExecutive SummaryIdentified GoalsProject Area Characteristics1. Identify impacts of acid precipitation to minimize or remediate these impacts.2. Enhance transportation infrastructure.3. Carefully plan development to ensure economic enhancement while preserving communitycharacter without adversely affecting quality of life.4. Encourage economic growth with minimal impacts to the environment.5. Establish economic stability needed to maintain a balanced workforce.6. Enhance marketability of the region to prospective businesses.7. Increase communication and cooperation among municipalities and counties within the region topromote sharing of services and improve conditions collectively affecting the watershed.8. Proactively plan for the future.9. Enhance financial support and services to prepare and train emergency response providers.Land Resources1. Work with agricultural community to implement best management practices on their property.2. Maintain agricultural uses on lands.3. Encourage environmental responsibility in industrial farming operations.4. Promote local agricultural products, producers, markets, and related programs.5. Establish or enhance incentives for land protection and conservation practice implementation.6. Protect agricultural and ecologically significant lands.7. Promote management practices on active mine sites to minimize impacts, prevent mine drainage,and improve conditions where possible.8. Reclaim abandoned wells, mines, and quarries.9. Minimize damages and financial hardship caused by mine subsidence.10. Encourage remediation and removal of refuse piles.11. Prevent future dumping activities by providing alternative methods of disposal and cleaning upexisting dumpsites.Water Resources1. Minimize potential flooding damages by taking a proactive approach to managing floodplains.2. Encourage non-structural approaches to floodplain management.3. Reduce industrial and sewage waste discharges.4. Install, maintain, or upgrade public and private water and sewage treatment facilities.5. Minimize impacts from stormwater through planning.6. Decrease the amount of impervious cover by 10 percent.7. Utilize riparian corridors to improve water quality and wildlife habitat.8. Protect wetlands.9. Further investigate wetlands and their functions.10. Reduce the amount of erosion and sedimentation entering waterways.11. Monitor water quality to ensure demand does not exceed water supply.12. Investigate the need and effectiveness of establishing a water quality trading program within theConnoquenessing Creek watershed.13. Develop a monitoring plan for the watershed or completed project areas, integrating qualityassurance/quality control standards into the plan.14. Establish and implement water conservation practices to reduce water consumption.15. Conduct an assessment of natural and man-made impoundments, and implement recommendationsto enhance their ecosystems.16. Reduce impacts caused by point and non-point source impairments.17. Investigate methods to reduce impacts of acid precipitation.ES-5
Connoquenessing Creek Watershed Conservation PlanExecutive Summary18. Identify, study, and treat abandoned mine drainage discharges.19. Monitor the use and effectiveness of dams.Biological Resources1. Develop, adopt, and implement management plans to protect forest and wildlife resources.2. Implement best management practices to protect forest resources.3. Identify Important Bird and Mammal Areas.4. Identify and protect biologically diverse areas.5. Enhance aquatic habitats.6. Protect rare, threatened, and endangered species and their habitats.7. Identify and protect important habitats for plant and animal species.8. Monitor and control invasive species.9. Implement strategies to conserve rare and unique plant and animal communities.10. Promote the use of native plants.11. Implement wildlife management practices to protect biodiversity.Cultural Resources1. Increase awareness of recreational resources through marketing and outreach.2. Enhance recreational opportunities for sportsmen and outdoor enthusiasts.3. Establish recreational programs for youth.4. Improve recreational facilities and ensure availability and access.5. Establish additional recreational facilities.6. Establish, expand, and improve area trails.7. Convert abandoned rail lines into trails and tours.8. Link recreational facilities to each other.9. Encourage environmentally sound practices when operating recreational vehicles, and enforceexisting laws to minimize intrusions on private lands.10. Establish recreation facilities and programs for senior citizens and youth.11. Expand awareness, appreciation, and support for the arts.12. Highlight and preserve local history within the region.13. Promote appreciation for the local history.14. Promote community involvement in conservation and educational initiatives.Education and Funding1. Educate stakeholders on how land-use planning can be affective.2. Educate stakeholders about impacts associated with poor air quality.3. Increase awareness about practices to assist agricultural and forest landowners in managing theirlands effectively.4. Increase awareness about impacts from litter, illegal dumps, and abandoned vehicles.5. Increase awareness about the benefits of riparian corridors.6. Educate stakeholders about the value and importance of wetlands.7. Increase awareness about water quality issues affecting communities.8. Establish ongoing environmental education programs.9. Increase awareness about water quality, quantity, and conservation practices.10. Educate stakeholders about the importance of wildlife and natural resources.11. Increase awareness of the importance of biodiversity and protecting wildlife habitats.12. Educate recreation users about proper and safe practices.13. Increase funding to address issues important to the Connoquenessing Creek watershedcommunities.14. Increase funding to create, maintain, and enhance existing recreational facilities and opportunities.ES-6
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