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ALLARM
    The Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM), a project of the Environmental Studies Department at Dickinson College, partners with Pennsylvania communities and individuals who are working to protect and restore watersheds.

Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
   The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is a regional nonprofit organization that builds and fosters partnerships to protect and to restore the Bay and its rivers. The Alliance does not lobby or litigate. Instead, we do the slow, hard work of bridging dialogue between groups that don't see eye-to-eye, forming strategies for joint solutions, and building the capacity of communities for local-level action.  The Alliance often works with community-based watershed groups like SCCA.

American Rivers
   American Rivers is a leading conservation organization standing up for healthy rivers so communities can thrive.  American Rivers protects and restores America's rivers for the benefit of people, wildlife, and nature.  Their website has a ton of information on past and current projects they are undertaking as well as current events and issues associated with rivers conservation.

Bureau of Watershed  Management
    A part of the Department of Environmental Protection the BWM is responsible for protecting water quality, ensuring public health and safety, and managing water resources, all on a watershed scale. establishes conservation partnerships with grants and technical assistance.

Chesapeake Bay Foundation
    The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is the largest conservation organization dedicated solely to saving the Chesapeake Bay. The motto, "Save the Bay" defines the organization's mission and commitment.

Chesapeake Bay National Treasure Executive Order
   This website deals with President Obama’s May 2009 Executive Order on Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration. The website will serve as the clearinghouse for all Executive Order information, including news, documents and events from the various federal agencies working on new approaches to cleaning up the nation’s largest estuary. The public can also provide feedback on the website and use online tools to track Executive Order activities.

Cumberland County, Penn State Cooperative Extension
    Information on upcoming events and training workshops in our area, as well as home to the Cumberland County Master Gardener Program and informative pages dealing with conservation, home gardening, native plants, rain barrels, and much more.

DCNR
    Department of Conservation and Natural Resources maintains and preserves natural areas throughout PA.   It works towards establishing community and conservation partnerships through grants and technical assistance.

EPA surf your watershed
    A federal government site designed to explore any watershed.

Explore PA's Maps
    Up to date maps of PA for free on the web.  Including maps that show watersheds.

Little Juniata River Association
   The Little Juniata River Association is a non-profit organization which seeks to Monitor, Preserve and Improve the Little Juniata River and it's tributaries as a cold water resource, now and for generations to come.  The group has some similarities to SCCA in its events such as monitoring and stream clean-up events and is the adjacent watershed to Shermans Creek.

Pennsylvania Clean Ways
   PA CleanWays is a non-profit organization that helps people who are ready to take action against illegal dumping and littering in their communities. Their core programs revolve around cleanups, adoptions and education.  There is a Perry County Chapter that is active in our community.

PA Conservancy
    The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy's Watershed Assistance Program was developed to give assistance to watershed groups on all the aspects of watershed protection and restoration.

PennFuture
   Website provides information on the political side of environmental issues – what bills are currently being considered by our politicians and what issues we need to bring to their attention.  PennFuture also helps our community based groups move through legal processes that sometimes become a part of protecting our environment.

Pennsylvania Campaign for Clean Water
   The Pennsylvania Campaign for Clean Water is a coalition of over 130 environmental, conservation, sporting, and religious groups fighting to protect Pennsylvania's water resources.  SCCA has signed a petition and joined their current mission to institute regulations preserving and re-establishing buffers adjacent to Pennsylvania’s streams.

Pennsylvania Geological Survey
   Maintains a database of water well records.

Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers
    An organization that brings together all the issues of watersheds in PA.  Presents an information forum for community members.

Perry County Conservation District 
   PCCD offer residents a variety of programs and assistance to encourage wise natural resource management. Whether you are a farmer, a woodlot owner, a homeowner, or student you will find something here to assist you in protecting our natural environment and resources.  Website includes PCCD programs, such as recycling guidelines and drop off locations, Chesapeake Bay Program, farmland conservation, and much more.

Susquehanna River Basin Commission
   SRBC is an interstate watershed agency which manages water resources of the Susquehanna basin under comprehensive watershed management and planning principles.  Their website has great information relating to planning, programs, activities as well as information pertaining to issues within the watershed like flooding, stormwater, rain barrels and rain gardens, groundwater and wells, and water quality and monitoring.  Shermans Creek is a tributary of the Susquehanna River.

Trout Unlimited
    Trout Unlimited works towards the conservation and enhancement of Pennsylvania's cold water streams and fisheries, and specifically the wild trout resources .  They restore streams through habitat improvement projects, conduct seminars on water quality and fisheries management and work to educate the next generation about the importance of clean water and wild trout.  The Cumberland Valley Chapter of Trout Unlimited’s website can be viewed here.

USGS Shermans Creek Gaging station
    The up-to-date stream flow measurements of the USGS gauging station on Shermans Creek at Shermans Dale, PA.

USGS Bixler Run Gaging station
    The up-to-date stream flow measurements of the USGS gauging station on Bixler Run near Loysville, PA.

Water Resources Education Network
    WREN makes connections between Pennsylvania citizens and water resources information.

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