RESOURCES & NEWS
Evidence-based articles, databases, and environmental studies.
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NEWS
A temporary moratorium has been placed on gas drilling in Bucks and Montgomery phillyburbs.com
Action Notices ... if you agree you can: Sign a petition to repeal ACT 13: signon.org
NY Times: Learning Too Late of Perils in Gas Well
Fracking Alert: Local Ordinances Limiting Where to Drill Will be Voided if House Bill 1950 Passes!
Call to Action (How to Call, Write, Email Today)Lynn Island Cleanup - Photo album
Too many weather records broken in a few years to be explained by normal variation says Glenn Schwartz, meteorologist
Philadelphia City Council unanimously passes resolution to sue DRBC, demand impact studies, forbid fracking for now
Electricity Shopping Guide OCA
Provides numbers to call, date for the Trenton protest, and an excellent video describing what's at stake.
FEMA Flood Related Information and Assistance. Citizens should contact FEMA for general flood related assistance.
FEMA emergency number: 1-800-621-FEMA
EPA Website | FEMA WebsiteReaders debate future of New Hope quarry www.phillyburbs.com
The invasion of the ash borers Phillyburbs.com By Christina Kristofic
“Ecologically speaking, you don’t ever want to lose not even a single species, much less an entire genus of trees.”DEP to make gas wells near high quality streams go through full permitting process pennlive.com
Shale drilling fines drop under Corbett post-gazette.com
Stink bugs bothering you? Delaware Twp. man invents a trap you can make nj.com
Nockamixon Ground Water Alerts:
Nockamixon residents fear water contamination http://www.phillyburbs.com
PA-DEP alert: Well water testing in our region PDF
PA-DEP Accredited Laboratories for Water Testing dep.state.pa.us pdf (fixed)
Current Carbon Dioxide Emission Higher Than It Was Just Before Ancient Episode of Severe Global Warming ScienceDaily
Spread of Invasive Ladybugs Explained Sciencedaily.com
Hidden Elm Population May Hold Genes to Combat Dutch Elm Disease sciencedaily.com
American elms once lined the country's streets and dominated eastern forests until they succumbed by the millions after Dutch elm disease arrived in the United States in 1931.DCNR: Landscaping with Native Plants brochure PDF
Engaging the public in biodiversity issues
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 12; 105 http://bit.ly/fVwjP3Electric Transmission Corridor?
On February 1, 2011, the 9th Circuit Court ruled in our favor, effectively eliminating the Mid-Atlantic and Southwest designations. conserveland.orgDeath in the Bat Caves: Disease Wiping out Hibernating Bats ScienceDaily (Feb 2011)
RESOURCES
General
Vegetable Varieties for Gardeners - Cornell
Water Testing
PA-DEP Accredited Laboratories for Water Testing dep.state.pa.us pdf (fixed)
Private well testing GroundWater.org
Recycling
Bucks County Recycle Hazardous Household Waste - Where and When | Dropoffs
EPA Homeowners Guide to Septic Systems epa.gov pdf
Stream and Habitat
Stream Side Management Tips PDF
PA Water resource http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/sfrmp/water.htm
What is the importance of Streamside Buffers? http://www.edf.org/documents/2758_NCbuffers.pdf
Riparian corridors are “buffers of trees, shrubs and grass along waterways.”
Conserving streamside buffers is socially valuable, economically viable and ecologically necessary. It costs more and takes longer to restore water quality than to protect it in the first place. Modest rules to protect narrow buffers can be fair to landowners, while preserving clean water for the entire state.PA Vernal Pool Identification Guide dcnr.pdf
Wetland Grants Database - WGD
Water Vital to Energy Future by Erica Gies "Water and energy form two vital pillars that hold up our economy and our lives. Unfortunately, they are inextricably intertwined: Destabilize one and you could threaten the other."
The Scientific Imperative for Defending Small Streams and Wetlands http://iowa.sierraclub.org/Steve-Sierra%20web%20docs0526/WhereRiversAreBorn.pdf
VALUING ECOSYSTEM SERVICES - TOWARD BETTER ENVIRONMENTAL DECISION–MAKING
Committee on Assessing and Valuing the Services of Aquatic and Related Terrestrial Ecosystems, Water Science and Technology Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies. NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=11139&page=1SIGNIFICANT NATURAL AREAS. Bucks County contains a diversity of unique natural features. T... http://hilltown.org/pacc/Report/Section V - Significant Natural Areas.pdf
A NATURAL AREAS INVENTORY OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY, PA Update -- 1999 http://www.gis.dcnr.state.pa.us/ pdf
Could Nockamixon become a 'pocket of freedom'? An EAC initiative/ goal for 2011? Please watch this video earthship.com and check out the web site; earthship.com. I think it would be good for the Planning C., EAC, and Supervisors to see. It is most interesting!
The FUN stuff: Have a look at the building; earthship.com
Scroll down at the site for great photos!PA Soil resource http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/sfrmp/soils.htm
Fracking (Hydraulic Fracturing)
See also our Fracking topic page
Invasive Species
See also our Invasive Species Topic Page
Why Should You Care About Invasive Plants?
http://www.cal-ipc.org/ip/definitions/impact.phpGrasping at the routes of biological invasions:
a framework for integrating pathways into policy
"Alien species may arrive and enter a new region through three broad mechanisms: importation of a commodity, arrival of a transport vector, and/or natural spread from a neighbouring region where the species is itself alien. These three mechanisms result in six principal pathways: release, escape, contaminant, stowaway, *corridor* and unaided."
"Alien species may arrive and enter a new region through three broad mechanisms: importation of a commodity, arrival of a transport vector, and/or natural spread from a neighbouring region where the species is itself alien. These three mechanisms result in six principal pathways: release, escape, contaminant, stowaway, corridor and unaided."
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/invasivealien/docs/integrating_ias_pathways.pdf
Township Issues
Nockamixon Township complaints nockamixontownship.org/
News Archive
Gallows Run - Water Quality Standards Review Stream Re-designation Evaluation DEP
More work to do!
Browse our updated Environment and Township Resource page
Uranium in Groundwater? 'Fracking' Mobilizes Uranium in Marcellus Shale
Steven writes: The important information is that uranium should be added to the list of compounds to be tested (by a PA DEP certified lab) in preparation before the gas drilling occurs. This would apply to wells and to streams. See my article in Upper Bucks Future 2009 issue pdfAnnual Members meeting See CAL
Gas drillers give up the fight in Nockamixon! Phillyburg
EPA to Study Chemicals Used to Tap Natural Gas nytimes.com
Nockamixon zoning upheld by Bucks County Court http://bit.ly/cbnTvQ
REDUCING ENVIRONMENTAL CANCER RISK What We Can Do Now http://bit.ly/bAe3hu
Pennsylvania Vernal Pool Identification Guide dcnr.pdf
Census Maps
Violations: HANSON AGGREGATES OTTSVILLE QUARRY
Action alert from Sierra Club: Help us tighten the regulations for gas drillers
Artists for Conservation PDF
GROUNDWATER RECHARGE ASSESSMENT ... RESOURCE STEWARDSHIP IN BUCKS COUNTY, PA PDF
"The outcome of this study is consistent with a potential for deep groundwater recharge of not more than one or two inches per year; equivalent to less than 5% of annual precipitation."Springfield Township Issues Notice of Violation to PPL sbulu.org
Tree Squad: leading a community-based initiative called 1000 Trees
DCNR Conservation Volunteer Application - Volunteer