 Literature
The following newsletters and facts sheets provide indepth information on our work and and threats to Pennsylvania's waterways. If you'd like to get more invoved, please join the campaign.
Campaign for Clean Water Newsletters
Buffers
“Buffers 100: Beside Every Good Stream is a Good Forest”
This fact sheet explains the benefits of stream buffers to our streams and our communities, and outlines what our Buffers 100 initiative includes. The pdf file is suitable for downloading and reproducing.
Buffers 100 Platform
This is a detailed explanation of the Buffers 100 initiative that also cites a number of studies showing how buffers reduce pollution inputs into streams.
Buffer Studies
For the reader who wants to review the actual studies on buffers, this list of references and citations will direct you to the newest and best studies on buffers and what they do.
Takings Analysis
Some buffer opponents claim that buffers are a “taking” of private property. This fact sheet addresses the issue, and looks at case law and existing precedents that have found that buffer requirements are constitutional and do not constitute a “taking”.
Exceptional Value Streams:
“The Effects of Special Protection Designation: A Guide for Communities”
Class A Wild Trout Flier
Stormwater
BMP Manual Letter
This letter to DEP Secretary Kathleen McGinty lists the Campaign's concerns with the draft Stormwater Best Management Practices Manual, outlining what the Campaign believes must be done to properly manage stormwater in Pennsylvania .
Chapter 102 Letter to DEP
This letter outlines the Campaign's recommendations for changes to state regulations dealing with stormwater and erosion and sediment control during construction projects. It also includes our recommendations for at least a 100 foot riparian buffer along all streams and rivers in the Commonwealth.
Wetlands
Letter to DEP on Chapter 105 Changes
This letter outlines the Campaign's proposals to improve state regulations to protect our remaining wetlands. It includes a recommendation to better protect small headwater streams in our state.
Comments to Army Corps on Draft SPGP3
The Campaign commented on the draft statewide general permit for wetlands and stream encroachments, proposing stronger protections for our state's water resources.
Clean Water Act
CWRA Letter to Congress 2007
This letter to Pennsylvania 's Congressional delegation urges them to restore protection under the Clean Water Act to all waters of the United States . It would end recent changes that have eliminated protection for up to 20 million acres of streams and wetlands across the US .
Pennsylvania Campaign for Clean Water
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