TRI-COUNTY CONEWAGO CREEK ASSOCIATION
BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING, MAY 15, 2002, 7:00 PM
MINUTES

I.	Secretary's Report

The April 10 Board of Directors Meeting Minutes and the April 24 Membership Meeting 
Minutes were approved.

II.	TCCCA Update

WREN Grant:  A participant is needed for the workshop on June 13 and 14 at Boiling Springs.  
Hal Royer has volunteered to attend the workshop.  It was suggested that Padraic Farrell may be 
able to help out with web site design.

Landowner Database:  Help is needed to gather landowners for Dauphin and Lebanon Counties.  
Hal has volunteered to travel to Lebanon County Courthouse to gather information.  For Dauphin 
County, it was suggested that the group concentrate on Brills Run.  Jay Book knows most of 
landowners from source to mouth:  Hitzes own at source, followed by Lehman, followed by 
Eagles.  There are cattle in the stream north side of Route 341.

PennDOT Cleanup:  Was held April 27th.  Thirteen bags of trash picked up from end of South 
Hertzler Road.

Stream Cleanup:  Held May 11th.  Big success.  Incredible amount of junk was pulled from 
stream.  It was suggested that TCCCA do a press release on the cleanup.

MHS Stream Sampling:  Tim Hoover was not present to report on the sampling.  Students should 
be heading out to stream this week.

Stream Salamander Survey:  Nicole Caruso has volunteered to participate in the salamander 
survey.  This is part of a Penn State Ph.D. project.  Other volunteers are welcome to sign up.  It 
involves one day of training and one day of sampling.

Next activity:  Birdwatching Tour June 1st.  Tom McKinne will lead, probably on trail in 
Colebrook.  TCCCA will advertise with press release and flyers in Mt. Gretna and Elizabethtown 
areas.

Landowner Leads:  John Hertzler has expressed interest in stream bank fencing.  Paul Davis has 
a problem with the Route 230 bridge causing erosion.  TCCCA to follow up on these 
possibilities.
		
III.	May 29th Membership Meeting Agenda.

Matt plans to include reports from Secretary, Treasurer, reports on PennDOT and Stream 
Cleanups, reports from Committees.  Guest Speaker Dale Bentz from Gleim Environmental will 
give a presentation on Gleim's stream restoration work.

IV.	Analysis and Discussion of Snapshot Data

A discussion of the Watershed Snapshot data was held.  Tom Murray said the data can be 
analyzed fairly easily to assess the health of the stream.  He believes that he can build upon the 
data gathered to develop a monitoring program using college students.  The establishment of 
other monitoring points was discussed, such as a point downstream from the industrial park 
discharge and in the trout stocking area.  

V.	Other Business

Nathan Gerard:  Nathan is a boy scout working toward his Eagle badge.  He would like to do a 
project for the Conewago.  Tree planting, stream cleanup were discussed as possible options.


VI.	Next Board Meeting

The next Board meeting was scheduled for June 18th at 7p.m. at the Milton Hershey 
Environmental Center.  There being no other business, the meeting adjourned at 8:50 p.m.


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