Programs & Services

Provide funding and oversight for the purchase of agricultural easements in order to protect farmland from development. Click here for board members and meeting information.

A cooperative effort involving all of the jurisdictions in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed in the goal of reducing nutrient and sediment pollution.

Provides landowners with resource management plans and recommendations.

 Chapter 105 – Assist the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection with permit issuance for work in or near a stream or wetland.

This program is designed to fund environmentally sound maintenance of unpaved municipal or low volume roadways that have been identified as sources of sediment pollution.

Offers programs for teachers, students and the community on environmental issues.

This program makes agricultural equipment available to producers in order to promote better conservation practices.

Equipment Available

• 10ft. Haybuster No-Till drill
• Pik Rite 795 variable rate manure spreader
• No-Til Vegetable Transplanter

Internships are offered periodically by the District. Contact the District Manager for more information.

Chapter 102 – This program requires any earthmoving activities disturbing greater than 5000 square feet to have an erosion control panel and may require a permit.

The Nutrient Management Program establishes regulation and policy regarding nutrient management planning, plan review and plan approval requirements for Act 38 regulated farms (CAOs and CAFOs) and volunteer farms (VAOs) to protect watersheds in and around Pennsylvania.

Monitors and helps control mosquito and tick populations to reduce the risk of vector-borne diseases and protect public health.

Support watershed association development and projects on environmental issues.