Thank You to the Volunteers

Thank you to all of the volunteers who have and continue to generously donated time and effort! 

A couple of examples...

Last Thursday, members of the agricultural community volunteered to attend a meeting at the Knouse Foods Orrtanna plant.  The purpose of the meeting was to verify agricultural water use estimates in the Marsh and Rock creek watersheds. 

Critical Area Advisory Committee members continue to volunteer time and expertise to ensure consideration of key issues and identification of practical solutions.

After the advisory committee meeting in April, several members volunteered to record weekly staff gage readings.  The readings are necessary to understand the amount of water available in the watersheds. 

Thank You!

May Well Monitoring

On May 18th, we collected the eighth round of ground water measurements for the Critical Area Resources Plan. USGS's Ground Water Monitoring website


It appears that the ground water table was the highest sometime between the middle of April and the beginning of May. I think it is safe to say that our water table will be dropping from now until the beginning of September.

High water in the watershed

In case you hadn't noticed, there's been a lot of rain lately and the water level in the streams has come up quite a bit. But almost as quickly, it's fallen again. That's one of the things that's special about the watershed. The water that falls as rain isn't held very long. It either runs off the surface quickly or what little soaks in discharges quickly to the streams as baseflow.

Here's a photo at one of the bridges showing how high the water is. I've also put some more on the slideshow. Just click on the changing photos in the upper right of the page to go to the slideshow on the Flickr site.

Do you have any shots of the high water? Let us know at marshrockpa@gmail.com and we'll post them.

FREE EVENT- Conserving Treasured Landscapes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed



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for an event flier.


You are invited to attend "Conserving Treasured Landscapes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed", a free event hosted by the South Mountain Partnership as part of the South Mountain Speakers Series. 

The event will be held Thursday, May 12th, 2011 at 7pm at the Agricultural and Natural Resources Center (670 Old Harrisburg Rd, Gettysburg, PA 17325).

Watershed Pictures

Do you have pictures of the Marsh and Rock creek watersheds that can be posted to the project's Flickr site?  Please share them! 

To submit pictures, email them to marshrockpa@gmail.com along with instructions on how you'd like the photo credits to appear.