60 Things You Can Do To Conserve Westmoreland County
Take a canvas bag along when you go shopping…give a membership in a watershed association for a friend’s birthday…replace your light bulbs with compact fluorescents. These are just some of the easy, inexpensive things you can do to make a difference for conservation. Take a look inside this lively brochure to learn more. 
Building a Conservation Campus
This easy-to-read fact sheet gives an overview of the Donohoe Center campus — the agencies housed here, the public services they offer, and the fun and educational features that can be enjoyed free-of-charge, from an arboretum and interpretive trails…to a solar array and wind turbine.
John Millen Soil Display 
This brochure gives an introduction to the five large vertical slices of Westmoreland County soil that make up this free and informative display where you can explore the world underneath your feet.
Brinkerton Abandoned Mine Drainage Treatment System Fact Sheet 
About halfway between Armbrust and United, in the small rural town of Brinkerton, is the largest abandoned coal mine discharge in the entire Sewickley Creek Watershed.
Water has been flowing out of the mine and into Sewickley Creek at a rate of 2,000 to 4,000 gallons per minute, depending on the time of the year, for nearly five decades.
This fact sheet gives more information on this significant discharge and the ongoing efforts of a number of conservation organizations to remedy it.
