Blair County Water Conservation Initiative

Care for Blair County Water provides water conservation steps everyone can take, both big and small, to make a difference in protecting our area’s natural water resources. Blair County is home to over a thousand miles of streams that we know and love. We swim, fish, and draw our drinking water from them. Our streams are vital to our ecosystem in providing healthy woodlands and parks for outdoor enthusiasts. Since all water flows downhill, any pollution entering our waterways affects everyone downstream of the problem. We must work together if we want to keep our streams and rivers safe and healthy for future generations.

Drinking Water

Drinking water sources can be vulnerable to pollution or contamination. Water authorities pump water from numerous reservoirs constructed throughout the County, treat the water, and send it off through expansive pipe systems that eventually lead to your home or business.

Storm Water

Stormwater is simply rain (or snowmelt) that runs across the ground. Stormwater is often called “runoff” because the water runs off, downhill, most often either being absorbed into soil or flowing into a storm drain. You might be asking, how can rain be a problem for us?

Streams

Understanding stream labels and designations in Pennsylvania can be complicated. Designations should be taken for what they are – a simple determination at one point in time (though designations may have regulatory impacts). 

 

Watersheds

A watershed (sometimes called a drainage basin or simply “basin”) is an area of land in which all water that falls on that land drains to a common waterway or destination.

How Can You Help Keep Blair County’s Waters Clean?

Regardless of your role there are many actions you can take to help protect and improve the local waterways that are so important to us all.

Do you know where the rain water draining off your driveway ends up? What are the main pollution threats to your favorite stream where you fish or swim? How are local conservation groups and Blair County working to improve and protect these valuable habitats? Most importantly, what can you do to help?

These questions, and many more, are answered throughout the Care for Blair County Water website.  Explore the various sections to learn about our water resources and watersheds.

Latest News

Miles of Streams

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Of Blair County Streams are Impaired

Best Management Practices Installed

Watersheds

Pound of Sediment Reduction Goal

Report a Water Problem

One important way to help protect our watersheds and resources is to alert the property authorities when you see a water quality issue.  Water quality issues can be accidental or the result of negligence.  Regardless of the nature, it is important to report it in a timely manner in order to prevent potential illness and damage to our ecosystem.

 

 See Something, Say Something.