Warwick Township: Newsletter

Lititz Run Watershed Alliance

Stream Line

Volume 7, Issue 1 November, 2008

Mission Statement

The purpose of this newsletter is to provide information regarding the Lititz Run Watershed Alliance.

For more information, please visit the following websites:

www.warwicktownship.org

www.landstudies.com

In cooperation with:

DTU

CBPC

2009 Meeting Schedule:

February 24th
March 21st - Stream Clean-up
April 28th
May 12th - Watershed Day

May 26th
July 28th
September 22nd
October 27th
November 24th

All Meetings are held at the Warwick Township Municipal Building, 315 Clay Road, Lititz.
The Meetings begin at 4:00 p.m.

You may call 717-626-8900 for additional information, or e-mail.

2008 Projects

Warwick Township Riparian Park:

With physical and financial assistance from the PA Fish & Boat Commission, as well as financial assistance from Trout Unlimited and the Lititz Sportsmen’s Association, Warwick Township Public Works staff installed nine log vane deflectors (12 or 15 feet in length), three additional logs and stone to repair an existing bank cover crib, and stone to close off the breach in the north bank. The log vane deflectors are intended to increase habitat for macro-invertebrates as well as creating pocket water for trout and other species. The repaired bank cover crib will improve overhead cover as well as eliminating a possible safety issue. By closing off the breach in the north bank, access to that bank is once again possible. This is a continuation of over a decade’s worth of effort to upgrade and maintain this beautiful gem in our community.

Stream Cleanup Day:

Approximately 100 volunteers came out on Saturday, March 15, 2008 for the Great PA Clean-Up Event. These volunteers collected about 1.5 tons of trash from the Millport Conservancy, and Riparian and Linear Parks. Two local businesses, Johnson & Johnson and McNeil, provided coffee and doughnuts, and PennDOT provided gloves, vests, and trash bags. The following weekend, LRWA provided refreshments for Trout Unlimited for their efforts to clean up the Banta Site. Next year’s annual cleanup will be on Saturday, March 21, 2009. For that cleanup, LRWA will attempt to categorize the trash collected by originator; for example, volunteers will note which stores plastic bags come from, and then ask those stores for contributions to future cleanup efforts.

Riparian Park picture
Restoration of the Riparian Park

A volunteer helps clean-up our waterways

Stormwater BMP Grant:

Thanks to the PA DEP and a Growing Greener II grant, as well as substantial community involvement, the Warwick Township Municipal Campus has become a showcase for stormwater best management practices. In addition to a bio-detention basin that is over half an acre in size, we have one of the largest areas of pervious pavement and sidewalk in Lancaster County.

Stream Clean-up Volunteers picture

Eagle Scout candidate Tommy Korzon plants a native perennial
On a very wet and muddy Saturday in September, 51 volunteers (from Scout Troop 27, Trout Unlimited, and the community), powered only by love of community and approximately 12 dozen donuts, came out at 8:00 in the morning to help plant 836 native plants - including 15 river birches, 71 shrubs, and 750 quarts and plugs. This regional bio-detention basin will improve the quality of water entering the Lititz Run, which feeds into the Conestoga River and eventually the Chesapeake Bay, and will also provide habitat for a variety of local wildlife, including ducks and songbirds.

LRWA Volunteers picture

Volunteers helped plant the bio-basin

Volunteers getting down & dirty in the bio-basin

Looking ahead to the Future..

Stream Clean-up

On Saturday, March 21, 2009 Stream Clean-up Day will be held for the Lititz Run Creek. LRWA attempts to clean the entire length of the stream, which includes over 7 miles of water-way. Volunteers are critical in getting this job done. Please mark your calendars now for the date: Saturday, March 21, 2009 from 8-11 a.m. Details will be available on the Warwick Township website: www.warwicktownship.org.

Volunteer!

During 2009, the LRWA will need new members to join the board and existing membership volunteers to help with these projects. For information, please contact the LRWA at 717-626-8900.

Ongoing temperature monitoring on Lititz Run to verify whether the water temperature can support trout reproduction.

The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission recently recommended that the Lititz Run be officially reclassified from a Warm-Water Fishery (WWF) to a Cold-Water Fishery (CWF), reflecting their biologists’ findings that our namesake does, in fact, now support reproducing trout.


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