Our mission is to: “Monitor, Preserve and Improve the Little Juniata River and its tributaries as cold water resources”.
Our April Meeting will be held Thursday the 9th at 7 PM at Marzoni’s.
The agenda items include :
Saturday, April 11th 9:00 am to noonWe will clean-up the river-banks and parking areas from Altoona to Barree
All bags, gloves and vests furnished. Dress for the weather (We go rain/snow). We need a few people with waders to collect trash in the back channels near Spruce creek.
Show up to the meeting place by 8:45 to get your assignment
Meet at the Spruce Creek United Methodist Church parking lot. Alternate meeting place for the upper river at New Pig Corp. Parking Lot in Tipton
Refreshments served before and hot lunch afterwards
Contact: Bill Anderson 814-569 8843, bjuniata@verizon.net
Minutes for the March meeting can be downloaded here
The LJRA is pleased to announce that Eric Oliver has been elected as a new director. Eric received his BS in Earth Science from Clarion University and a post baccalaureate certificate in Geoinformation Science from PSU. Eric has held positions as a mine inspector with the PA DEP and is currently part of Green Forests Work. Eric was already active in the organization, helping with the banquet, and he played a key role in monitoring the construction of the Rutters truck stop. You can read more about Eric here. Welcome Eric.
The LJRA will meet Thursday Feb 12th at 7PM at Marzoni’s in Altoona. The featured speaker will be LJRA board member Logan Stenger, who serves as a Senior Project Manager for the Chesapeake Conservancy. He will speak about the organization’s activities. You can read more about Logan here.
In 2019, the Conservancy launched what is now known as the Rapid Stream Delisting Strategy, which seeks to accelerate the implementation of agricultural best management practices (BMPs) to restore impaired streams. The initiative aims to remove, or “delist”, 30 streams from Pennsylvania’s 303(d) impaired waters list by 2030. Now approaching its eighth year, the partnership has expanded to more than 60 organizations working across seven counties and 56 streams, with growing interest from additional Pennsylvania counties and early expansion into Maryland. Logan will provide an overview of the strategy’s development, progress to date, and future direction. He will also provide a detailed explanation of how aquatic macroinvertebrates are used to assess water quality and track restoration success, an essential component to achieve stream delisting. While significant work remains to reach the “30 x 30” goal, the partnership’s successes to date demonstrate momentum and the potential for meaningful water-quality improvements across Pennsylvania and the greater Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Other agenda items include:
Minutes from the January meeting can be found here
Minutes from the November meeting can be downloaded here
Minutes from the October meeting can be downloaded here
Minutes to the Aug 14th meeting can be downloaded here
The minutes of the June meeting can be downloaded here