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.
