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Posts by Jace Marsh

Springs: What They Are and Why We’re Testing Them

By Jace Marsh | January 14, 2021 | 0

Springs are a natural source of fresh, cold, flowing water that have undoubtedly attracted humans to them for millennia. Entire communities have been formed around springs, and many homes built…

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Electrofishing Survey in the Indian Creek Watershed—Some Shocking Fish!

By Jace Marsh | October 8, 2020 | 0

Last week, we were out in the field to do something we’ve been looking forward to for a while: fish shocking with the team from Western Pennsylvania Conservancy’s (WPC) Watershed…

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Adding the Steyer Bridge to the Indian Creek Valley Trail

By Jace Marsh | June 5, 2020 | 0

There are still sections that need completed to finish the Indian Creek Valley Trail from Route 31 to the Youghiogheny River—a full 19 miles of what remains of the abandoned…

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Passive Treatment—Active Maintenance: When Mine Drainage Treatment Systems Need Fixed

By Jace Marsh | April 23, 2020 | 0

If you saw this along the Indian Creek Valley Trail during the first couple months of 2020, you may have thought something was awry. You would have been correct. That…

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  • PA American Water in Negotiations to Purchase the Indian Creek Valley Water Authority
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  • Residents Turn Out to Stop MAX Expansion

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Curious how to say the name of the river? It's pronounced "yawk-a-gainey" or simply the "yawk." "Youghiogheny" is a Lenape word that means "water following in a contrary direction."

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