Peters Creek Watershed Projects

    Watershed Assessment & Management Plan

  • A 2007 Growing Greener Grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection is being utilized to perform a comprehensive watershed assessment and to develop a Peters Creek Watershed Management Plan which includes long-term monitoring, protection & restoration components.


  • A $3,500.00 grant from The Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds is being used to support development of a long-term Peters Creek Watershed Management Plan.


  • A $10,000 Pennsylvania Department of Community & Economic Development Grant is helping to support watershed assessments and to purchase insurance and office equipment for PCWA.


  • Collaborated with the Allegheny Land Trust and Chatham University's Department of Landscape Architecture to develop a Greenprint for the Peters Creek Watershed. A Greenprint is a land conservation model that identifies and prioritizes natural infrastructure contributing to stormwater management, scenic character and preservation of biodiversity.


    • Environmental Education

  • PCWA developed the Peters Creek Watershed Users Manual - a citizen's guide to a healthy watershed. This pamphlet promotes a watershed perspective, educates about pollution threatening our streams and provides simple ways that citizens can decrease their contribution to the problem. Request a copy by e-mailing peterscreekwsa@verizon.net or phoning (412) 233-6628


  • Partnered with Jennifer Cramer, 7th grade science teacher at the Pleasant Hills Middle School, to initiate a "Trout in the Classroom" program. PCWA purchased equipment for the program and is supporting a spring field trip to Peters Creek to learn about water quality and to stock the brook trout that the students raised from eggs during the school year.


    • Macroinvertebrate Sampling

  • PCWA received a $500 grant from the Dominion Foundation to purchase equipment to be used for water quality monitoring.

    • Remediation

  • We received a $1,500 grant from NiSource to rehabilitate a section of streambank along Peters Creek/Piney Fork that has been damage.


Wood Duck

Wood Duck - Peters Twp

In Need of Remediation

Proposed Natural Streambank Stabilization Site
Peters Creek
Jefferson Hills