Happy Birthday to MWA! The Board of Directors of the Mountain Watershed Association invites you to help celebrate our 20th anniversary by joining us for our 9th Annual Clean Water…
On April 1, 2014, MWA is holding a community meeting in Delmont, PA regarding Marcellus activities in the area. The meeting will be from 6:45 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. and…
The Missing Link is YOU! Your support will bring us one plank closer to building the bridge in the Donegal section of the Indian Creek Valley Trail. We have received…
The following post is a more in-depth discussion of yesterday’s post on forced pooling. Please email Nick with any questions. We are grateful to Bob Donnan of www.marcellus-shale.us for use…
We are grateful to Bob Donnan of www.marcellus-shale.us for use of the photo of a drilling site near Avella, Pennsylvania which accompanies this post. On March 25th and 26th in New Castle,…
Yesterday our Yough Riverkeeper Krissy Kasserman and Community Advocate Nick Kennedy attended an Office of Surface Mining inspection of the Curry Mine site. Â Admittedly, it was raining. Â That said, during…
We need your help! Suggest your favorite swim hole in the Yough watershed for sampling this summer!  We have received funds from The Pittsburgh Foundation’s Health and The Environmental Giving Circle to…
The backstory… We’ve been wrangling with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and Amerikhol Mining over erosion & sedimentation issues on the Curry mine site along the Yough in…
The following is an except of a letter prepared by the Pennsylvania Campaign for Clean Water‘s Exceptional Value Workgroup (of which MWA is a member) regarding HB 1576, the Endangered…
Pizza doesn’t mean never having to say you’re sorry. When one of its gas wells exploded in Dunkard Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, killing one worker, injuring another, and sparking a…