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Protect Your Water and Property Rights

By Madison Hinkle | June 15, 2023 | 0

Make Sure Your Information Is Listed Correctly If you live above or near the proposed Rustic Ridge II Mine or the proposed mining expansion, it is important to preserve your…

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Carbon Rights – to Sell or not to Sell?

By KD Ferrari | May 17, 2023 | 0

Is selling your carbon credits actually a good financial move?

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Spotted Lanternfly Arrives in the Laurel Highlands

By Carla Ruddock | March 23, 2023 | 0
brown and black insect on green leaf

As temperatures rise and spring emerges here in the Youghiogheny River watershed, a new threat to our environment has emerged. The pesky Spotted Lanternfly has been identified in both Fayette…

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Recruiting Volunteers for Weekly Water Monitoring

By Taylor Robbins | March 20, 2023 | 0

Mountain Watershed Association will be holding a Volunteer Training Day for water quality sampling on April 12th at 2pm at MWA’s office in Melcroft, PA. At the training, volunteers will…

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Zoning Hearing Board Issues Decision on Mountain Pines Campground Expansion

By Madison Hinkle | January 20, 2023 | 0

Diamond Properties, LLC, owner of the Mountain Pines Campground in Saltlick Township, is seeking to expand its campground operations onto the neighboring property that currently houses the former Clifford N.…

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Take Action Today: PA Senate sells out Municipal Water with SB597

By Stacey Magda | August 31, 2022 | 0

Recently, the Pennsylvania Senate passed SB 597, the “Water Quality Accountability Act’. If signed into law, it would raise the cost of operations for public water authorities by implementing burdensome…

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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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