Daily News | Better parks, cleaner rivers: How Pa. will spend a ‘generational’ $765 million for conservation and environmental programs.
Under the state budget passed last week, Pennsylvania’s conservation programs will receive a one-time, pandemic-related federal booster shot of $765 million for state parks, forests, streams, open space, farms, and home energy efficiency — an amount one environmental advocate called “generational.”
Cindy Adams Dunn, secretary of the DCNR, said the money could trickle down to the Philadelphia region in multiple ways. A portion of the money will go toward the creation of three new state parks expected to be announced in the fall, including “one that will be interest to you” Dunn said, referring to Inquirer readers,Could a new state park be coming to the Philly region?
Other projects include paving at Ridley Creek State Park in Delaware County, turning an historic building into a visitor center for Delaware Canal State Park in Bucks County, and work on a swimming pool at French Creek State Park in Chester County. A key target is the Susquehanna River watershed that drains into the Chesapeake Bay, carrying pollution with it. Federal officials with the Environmental Protection Agency have been at odds with Pennsylvania for failing to adequatelyClean Streams money will go to farmers to build vegetative strips to help protect stream banks, install retention ponds, keep livestock out of streams, design chicken coops that prevent runoff from draining into waterways and a host of other projects.
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