Partner Highlights
Radioactive Leachate in Landfills: A Free Coalition Webinar on the Risk to Our Water
When oil and gas waste ends up in a landfill, it doesn’t just sit there. Water moves through it and creates a runoff called leachate, and a growing coalition of Pennsylvania groups is raising concerns about what that leachate can carry, including radioactive material, and where it ends up: our water treatment plants and waterways.…
Read MoreHow Healthy Are Our Rivers? Three Rivers Waterkeeper’s 2025 State of Our Waters Report
How healthy are our rivers? It’s one of the most common questions people ask, and our partners at Three Rivers Waterkeeper have spent a year gathering data to help answer it. Their newly released 2025 State of Our Waters Report takes stock of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers and their tributaries, the same waters…
Read MoreFree PFAS Workshop and Water Test for Private Well Owners in Fayette County
If you get your water from a private well, spring, or cistern, keeping it safe is on you, and that includes keeping an eye on PFAS. On Thursday, July 16, Penn State Extension is hosting a free one-hour workshop in Uniontown to help private water supply owners understand these “forever chemicals,” how to test for…
Read MoreGet Out on the Water This July with Three Rivers Waterkeeper
Our partners at Three Rivers Waterkeeper have a full July lined up, and they have opened it to the whole H2O network. These events run through the lower reaches of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio, part of the same basin we all share, and there is something here for just about everyone: boat tours, a…
Read MoreDownstream from Spring Confluence: What We Took Away from Geneva College
The Spring 2026 Confluence brought the H2O Water Network together at Geneva College in Beaver Falls for a day built around three simple things: connecting, sharing, and learning. Folks came from across the Upper Ohio River Basin, and the program covered a lot of ground, from the nuts and bolts of delivering clean water to…
Read MorePaddle the Middle Yough and Join the Picnic: Two CRWA Events in July
The Casselman River Watershed Association (CRWA) has two July events lined up, and they make a nice pair: a beginner-friendly float down one of the prettiest stretches of the Youghiogheny, and a potluck and annual meeting with the pool open. Here are the details. CRWA’s First Middle Yough Sojourn, July 11 On Saturday, July 11,…
Read MoreSunset Paddles and a Headwaters Party: Two JCWA Events This Summer
Our partners at the Jacobs Creek Watershed Association have two events on the calendar this summer, and both are good excuses to get outside and support clean water in the Laurel Highlands. One is a quiet evening on the water, the other a full-on celebration in a historic barn. Here is what is happening. Sunset…
Read MoreBack by Popular Demand: A Passive Treatment Course for Mine Drainage
September 15-17 Legacy mine drainage is one of the most stubborn water problems across the Upper Ohio River Basin, so a chance to build real expertise in treating it does not come around often. The Western Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation (WPCAMR) is bringing back its NTTP Passive Treatment Course this September, and the…
Read MoreFinal Call: Submit Your Salt Watch Data by July 1
A quick but time-sensitive heads up for anyone who has been monitoring with Salt Watch this year. The deadline to get your data into the 2025-2026 Salt Watch Annual Report is July 1. If you have readings sitting in a notebook or on your phone, now is the time to upload them. It is easy…
Read MoreWatch Your Water: Join Us for Nitrate Pollution Awareness Week, July 26 to August 1
Some water problems announce themselves. Nitrate pollution is not one of them. You cannot see it, smell it, or taste it, but it is one of the most widespread threats to clean water in our region, and it is exactly the kind of problem that gets easier to tackle when more people are paying attention.…
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