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 Canoe Run
Canoe
Run is a beautiful HQ-CWF (High Quality Cold Water Fishery) and Class A
Wild Brook Trout stream completely encompassed within the
Elk
State
Forest
and the Bucktail Natural Area.
In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, near the headwaters of
Canoe Run was a small mining operation which fed the coke ovens located
along the Driftwood Branch of Sinnemahoning Creek.
There is some AMD draining into the headwaters of the left fork
of Canoe Run.
The mission of the Cameron County
Conservation District is a locally led Board of concerned residents
striving to conserve, protect, restore, and enhance our natural
resources. The goals of the
Conservation District include flood & erosion control, to maintain
and/or improve stream habitat, to reduce and/or eliminate stream
pollution, to promote public awareness & outreach, and to protect
all natural resources throughout
Cameron
County
. The Conservation District has been
serving
Cameron
County
for 40 years.
The purpose of the District’s grant request is to gather baseline data
about the Canoe Run watershed. In
the past some mining operations have occurred within this watershed and
some AMD is occurring in one of the tributaries to Canoe Run. The
District will conduct the following activities:
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Research
the history and any existing data pertaining to the watershed.
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Hold two
public meetings.
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Conduct visual stream
assessment.
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Conduct
water quality analysis of Canoe Run and it’s tributaries.
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Conduct
benthic macro-invertebrate sampling.
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Habitat
analysis of sampling sites.
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Rod
and reel survey.
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Write
conservation plan.
For
Additional Information:
Todd
Deluccia
Cameron
County Conservation District
Watershed
Specialist
20 E 5th St.
Room 105
Emporium
,
PA
15834
Phone:
814-486-9354
Fax:
814-486-9392
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