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Employment Opportunity
Berks County Conservation District has an employment opportunity for either a District Engineer or an Urban Resource Conservationist and Team Leader with a Minimum of Two to Three Years of Experience. General Duties of the District Engineer and the Urban Resource Conservationist and Team Leader will include, implementing of several …
Flooding and Maintenance of Pennsylvania Streams
The PADEP has recently published information on maintaining streams on your property, including a fact sheet on emergency removal of debris from streams and advice on flood prevention and management. This information is especially useful in light of recent rainfall and flooding events across Berks County during the summer of …
Spotted Lanternfly Research Tour in Berks County
Penn State Extension partnered with the Berks County Conservation District to host a Spotted Lanternfly Research tour for public officials on August 28th to share more information regarding the research efforts to better understand and control the SLF outbreak. The all-day tour is scheduled to stop at farms, Senator Schwank’s office, …
Next round of REAP: August 6th, 2018
The next round of REAP is scheduled to begin August 6th, 2018. What’s new for 2018: Cover Crops – Farmers can now apply for up to 3 years of proposed cover crop plantings. In addition, applicants are eligible to receive credits on the same acreage more than once. Applicants are no longer …
Updates to Notice of Termination forms
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection has revised the Notice of Termination forms effective 7/2017. Revised forms can be found at: http://www.elibrary.dep.state.pa.us/dsweb/View/Collection-13624. This link includes the NOT form for projects submitted after 11/19/2010, as well as the revised NOT for projects submitted prior to this date. The link also contains instructions for the …
Trout in the Classroom
The Berks County Conservation District is partnering with the Trout Unlimited Tulpehocken Chapter to sponsor a Trout in the Classroom program in every School District in Berks County! Trout in the Classroom is a Trout Unlimited program that provides schools with aquarium equipment, assistance with set up, faculty training, and live …
Clean Water Farm Award goes to Berks County farm
The Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. (PACD) in conjunction with the award sponsor, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), presented the operators of four PA farms with the Clean Water Farm Award during its annual conference on July 18, 2018 in Lancaster, PA. The honor is awarded annually …
What to do if you find a spotted lanternfly on your property:
The invasive spotted lanternfly has been found in southeastern counties in Pennsylvania. Many partners are trying to eradicate this pest. There is a quarantine order in place that prohibits movement of any living life stage of this insect to areas outside of the quarantine area. To find information about identifying the …
Talking about Stormwater
Stormwater is Impairing Berks County Streams… Rainwater and melting snow runs over lawns, parking lots, and farm fields, through city streets and forests, picking up and carrying pollutants into our streams, rivers, and oceans. Typically, we can see this “stormwater” flow off our driveways or down our streets during a …