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About Us

• 5 - 7 Members (1 of which is a Planning Commission member)
• Term: 3 years (expiring the 1st Monday in January)
• Members:

  Scott Alderfer - Chairman:	term expires: 1/1/2016
  Chris Cope - Vice Chair:	term expires: 1/1/2014
  John Fisher, Jr. - Secretary:	term expires: 1/1/2015
  Christopher Sacchi - Member:	term expires: 1/1/2016
  Jon Levin - Member:	term expires: 1/1/2015
  Nicole Folino - Member:	term expires: 1/1/2014
  Marti Schwartz - Parks & Rec Rep.
  George Doughty- Planning Commission Rep.	term expires: 1/1/2016
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NRI - Natural Resource Inventory

Kratzer Farm Stewardship Report (April 2010)

Invasive Species Management Plan (DCNR, 2011)


 

Penn's Meadow Basin Naturalization Project Update

 

Attention Lower Macungie Nature Watchers…

 

Have you taken a stroll through the retrofitted Penn’s Meadow Stormwater Basin yet? You might remember the basin, located at the northeast corner of Sauerkraut and Willow Lanes, as it looked prior to 2010, with its concrete spillways and several acres of closely mowed grass. See picture below. 

In the Summer of 2010, however, with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the former basin was retrofitted with three different naturalized stormwater management structures, all of which empty into a small pond at the site.  These naturalized stormwater structures help to filter out pollutants from street runoff before they can discharge into the Little Lehigh Creek by means of an overflow structure. In the Fall of 2010, volunteers, planted 150 native, deciduous trees in the upland area to the immediate north of the new stormwater control structures. The trees species include sweet gum, river birch, American sycamore, red-osier dogwood, elderberry, black willow, and silver maple.  A recent check by the Pennsylvania district forester for our region found that an impressive 75 percent of those trees have survived their first two winters.

 

The Lower Macungie Environmental Advisory Council (EAC) has monitored the basin naturalization project since it’s initial planning stages. The site now features mulched walking paths. The EAC encourages Township residents to visit the site look for the various birds, butterflies, and other insects that have already made their homes in the newly created woodland, wetland, and meadow habitats.

Penn’s Meadow Stormwater Basin, pre-2010		After Retrofit