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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) The Allegheny County Conservation District (ACCD) is currently doing its work to both reduce pollution and improve water quality in Western Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania state data confirms that there are over 80,000 miles of rivers and streams there. Many of those streams in Allegheny County are damaged by pollutants from mine drainage that is abandoned, runoff of stormwaters, erosion and sedimentation. The ACCD has ways like a rain garden close to the activity center in Findlay Township that helps to clean and capture runoff of stormwater before it becomes the water that we drink to reduce pollution. The Montour Run Watershed also has had mine drainage that is abandoned and runoff of stormwaters that the ACCD has identified as top priorities to tackle in it. The Milk Run AMD system was also created a few years ago, which was deisgned to remove acid and aluminum that weighs ten and thousnads of pounds. Trout is now stocked up in Montour Run, which has had fish come back to it. The ACCD has also noticed an improvement overall in the water quality in their region and will be looking forward to keeping up working with environmental partners.