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Introduction

1. The Watership Today

• Overview
• Environmental Setting
• Historical Influences
• Land Use and Population Change
• Community and River Conservation Planning
• Trends in Land Consumed for Development
• Surface and Groundwater Withdrawals
• Biological health of Schuylkill Waters

2. Schuylkill Resources That Need Protection or Enhancement

• Overview
• Fisheries
• Streamside Areas and Wetlands
• Greenways and Watershed Conservation Lands
• Water Resource Protection and Developing Communities
• The Schuylkill and Historic Riverfront Communities
• The Schuylkill and the City of Philadelphia
• Schuylkill Greenways and Trails

3. Managing Watershed Stresses

• Overview
• Assessment of Water Quality Conditions
• Agriculture
• Impervious Surfaces and Urban Storm Water
• Sewage Wastes
• Industrial Pollutants
• Abandoned Mine Drainage
• Monitoring and Research

4. Public Awareness and Education

• Overview
• Enhancing Public Awareness
• Educating the Next Generation
• Environmental Education Centers
• Special Recognition of the Schuylkill

5. Looking Out for the Watershed - Who is Involved

• Public Agencies with Programs Related to the Schuylkill Watershed
• Nonprofit Organizations
• Partnerships

6. Conclusions

• A Call to Action
• Where Do We Go From Here?

The Role of Indicators

Report Participants

 

List of Figures

1. Regional Location
2. Physiographic Regions
3. Percentage of Stream Miles by Stream
4. Dams in the Schuylkill Watershed
5. Land Cover
6. 1990-2000 Population Change, by Municipality
7. Land Development Trends, Montgomery County
8. 1970-95 Trends in Population and Land Consumption, Montgomery County
9. Water Supply Intakes
   
10. Seasonal Relationships Between Water Withdrawals and River Flow
11. Water Withdrawals in the Schuylkill Watershed
12. Monitoring Locations and Tributaries Surveyed by Stroud Water Research Center 1996-2000
13. Water Quality Grades, Based Upon a Survey of Macroinvertebrates
14. Fish Consumption Advisories
15. Fish Passage at Major Dams
16. Status of Fish Passage Improvements at Major Dams
17. Wissahickon Creek’s “Green Ribbon”
18. Land Trusts Active in the Schuylkill Watershed
19. Status of Land Protection in Selected Counties
20. Watershed Communities with Environmental Advisory Councils
21. Sustainable Watershed Initiative in Northern Chester County
22. Population Trends in Older Riverfront Communities
23. Task Force Members – Master Plan for the Lower Schuylkill
24. Schuylkill River Water Trail
25. Schuylkill River Land Trail
26. Assessed and Impaired Streams in the Watershed
27. Stream Classifications – Manatawny Creek
28. Percentages of Assessed and Impaired Streams
29. Streams Impaired by Agriculture
30. Agricultural Best Management Practices in the Tulpehocken Watershed
31. Streams Impaired by Development and Urban Storm Water
32. Status of Storm Water Management Plans in the Watershed
33. Public Sewage Treatment Plants
34. Status of Sewage Facility (Act 537) Plans in the Watershed
35. Industrial Point Sources, by Sub-Watershed
36. CERCLA Sites in the Schuylkill Watershed
37. Coal Mine Remediation Sites and Streams Impaired by
    Abandoned Mine Drainage
38. Priority Remediation Sites
39. Environmental Education Centers Within or Near the Schuylkill Watershed
40. Schuylkill River Heritage Corridor Projects from 1995 to 2000

 

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