Support the Petition to Upgrade and Protect Aquashicola Creek
I am pleased to offer my support of the Aquashicola Pohopoco Watershed Conservancy’s petition to upgrade the water quality designation of the Aquashicola Creek to Exceptional Value (EV) status.  

The evidence is clear that Aquashicola Creek should deserve an Exceptional Value designation. The upper section of the Aquashicola Creek is a relatively undeveloped area that includes several contiguous preserved tracts of land, including sections of the Cherry Valley National Wildlife Refuge and PA State Game Lands 168.

The creek also runs parallel to the Appalachian Trail and Kittatinny Ridge, a world-famous Migratory Corridor of the Atlantic Flyway, and through wetlands that have special protection under Pennsylvania Code because they are home to threatened and/or endangered species of flora and fauna.  

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has already designated sections of the Aquashicola Creek as Natural Reproduction Trout Stream and Class A Wild Trout Stream. Finally, the macroinvertebrate scores from assessments conducted in the Monroe County Water Quality Study and by the PA Department of Environmental Protection indicate that the stream has great potential to qualify for Exceptional Value status.

For all of the above reasons, I urge the DEP to thoroughly review the application in its entirety and produce a draft report with the recommendation to upgrade Aquashicola Creek to Exceptional Value status. This petition has been waiting in the wings for a decade now, and it is past time to move it forward so that users of this stream can enjoy the maximum protection possible!
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