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Current Issues
The Campaign is helping local watershed groups and conservancies nominate qualified streams for EV and HQ status. We have published a guide for local communities that describes what EV and HQ status means. Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future has also published a handbook that describes how to nominate a stream for EV or HQ status. We are working to convince the PA Department of Environmental Protection to strengthen the protection given EV streams and to monitor them more closely to make sure that their water quality is being protected. The Campaign's agenda for the EV program gives more details. The Campaign is working to convince the PA Fish and Boat Commission to officially recognize and protect all streams that qualify as Class A Wild Trout streams. This status also gets a stream automatic recognition as a HQ stream. See our fact sheet for details. For more information on the Campaign's EV activities, contact Alisha Deen-Steindler at adeen@cleanwater.org .
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Pennsylvania Campaign for Clean Water |
Exceptional Value (EV) streams are the state's best and most pristine streams. The EV program is designed to recognize these streams and protect them from degradation. The Campaign is working to make sure that all qualified streams get EV status, and that they are really protected from pollution.