Get Involved
You have an important role in the network. Get involved in ways that activate your expertise and gifts in this collaborative effort. Our network is successful with the commitment from farmers, municipality leaders, business owners, environmental professionals and more.
Having a collaborative network is integral in completing our collective goal. It allows local and regional organizations to organize, work together and speak in a unified voice. That voice is amplified through the megaphone effect of our collective communication channels, reaching a much larger audience and boosting the credibility of each organization and the partnership as a whole. It creates a ripple effect that positively impacts landowners, muinicpailities, our downstream neighbors and future generations.
How To Get Involved
Here are just a few ways you can get involved:
- Listen to our podcast and send us some feedback
- Become a partner organization
- Sign up for the newsletter
- Apply for or learn about CAP funding and the Clean Water Fund
- Donate to the backbone organization
- Join an Action Team
- Participate in the Watershed Leadership Academy
THE VALUE OF A NETWORK
At Lancaster Clean Water Partners, we are fortunate to be the backbone of an amazing network of partners who do the boots-on-the ground work of restoring clean water in Lancaster County. This video features just a few of the many projects and partner organizations that are making a difference in our shared goal of achieving clean and clear water in Lancaster County by 2040!
Your donation helps support Lancaster Clean Water Partners directly as a backbone organization.
Check Out Our Podcast
Clean Water Conversations is a lively series of discussions with leaders, volunteers and difference-makers in our shared goal of clean and clear waterways by 2040.
Diverse partners working towards common goals
The Lancaster Clean Water Partners is a countywide, collaborative partnership of diverse partner organizations – local leaders in business, municipal public service, higher education, conservation planning, and non-profit management – that come together with a Common Agenda. We’re led by an Executive Committee and a Board of Trustees, with full-time support from staff, and collaboration with many partner organizations across Lancaster.
Action Teams
Leadership Academy
Stream Delisting
Countywide Action Plan (CAP)
Lancaster Countywide Action Plan (CAP)
Lancaster County is a priority area designated by the Environmental Protection Agency, which has set goals for all six states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants by 2025. Pennsylvania’s Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) identifies the best ways to reduce these pollutants, in addition to sediment, in our local waterways.
The Lancaster Countywide Action Plan (CAP) outlines Lancaster’s path for achieving nitrogen and phosphorus reductions for clean and clear water throughout the county. It was developed through a significant and collaborative grassroots approach with local partner organizations, experts, community members, and state agencies.
CAP Coordinator
With the Lancaster Clean Water Partners as the lead entity, the CAP Coordinator is made up of four local partners – LandStudies, Lancaster Farmland Trust, David Miller/Associates, and the Lancaster County Conservation District. Each agency provides specific work that will help us reach local reduction goals.
Additional support is provided by DEP through implementation dollars which support local projects that achieve the reductions identified in the CAP.
CAP Coordinator Leads
More than 50% of Lancaster County’s streams suffer from poor water quality
due to sediment and nutrient pollution.
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BECOME A PARTNER ORGANIZATION
If you share our vision of clean and clear water in Lancaster County by 2040, we want to hear from you!