IT’S TIME TO COMPOST!
Not sure what to do with your kitchen scraps, leaves, and lawn
and garden debris? Would you like natural, home-made compost
for your lawns and garden beds? Expand your recycling efforts to
include kitchen scraps and yard debris.
You will receive a composting bin at class!
This workshop thoroughly covers the
importance and benefits of composting,
the process, setting up a compost pile,
proper maintenance, and ways of using
finished compost. Participants will
receive a FreeGarden EARTH compost bin
with attendance. This bin, ideal for urban
and suburban areas, has an eighty-two-
gallon capacity.
When: May 18, 2019
Where; Ross Twp. Community Center
Cost: $70/individual or $75/couple including one compost bin.
For more info or to register go to:
http://prc.org/programs/conservation-workshops/backyard/
Or call 412.488.7490 X 226
Pre-registration is required.
WATERSHED AWARENESS AND
ACTION WORKSHOP AT THE ROSS
TWP COMMUNITY CENTER
Sunday, April 28th at 12:30 – 2:00 PM
Practice watershed protection and conservation in your own
backyard. It’s easier than you think!
The Pennsylvania Resources Council (PRC), through a grant
from Patagonia Pittsburgh is offering Ross Twp. residents living
in the Girty’s Run Watershed its Watershed Awareness and
Action Workshop. Patagonia Pittsburgh funding will provide
participants with an attractive 55-gallon FreeGarden rain
barrel which, when installed correctly, is perfect for urban and
suburban areas.
Green stormwater infrastructure such as rain barrels, rain
gardens, swales, permeable pavement, and green roofs are
a long-term, decentralized component to a regional plan
designed to reduce combined sewer overflows (CSO), flooding,
streambank destabilization, and Nonpoint Source (NPS)
pollution. These catchment systems benefit the ecosystem by
recharging groundwater supplies, reducing runoff, erosion,
flooding, the frequency and severity of CSOs, and by filtering
pollutants before they enter the combined sewer system and/or
waterways.
Twenty-five workshop participants will receive a 55-gallon rain
barrel which, based on an average-sized house with a 1000 sq.
ft. base, will remove over 24,000 gallons of water each from
the combined sewer system annually. Rainwater harvesting is
one way that we can take action to reduce our contribution to
impaired water quality, flooding, and to the frequency of CSOs
by reducing stormwater runoff while at the same time increasing
on-site absorption.
It isn’t enough to install a rain barrel. PRC’s Watershed Awareness
and Action Rain Barrel Workshop will address the causes and
impacts of polluted stormwater runoff on water quality. Home
and yard activities such as car care, pet care, the use of pesticide
and fertilizers, and the use and disposal of household chemicals
can be performed in ways that are not degrading to the
environment. Learn more!
Pre-registration is required
Registration fee - $40.
To register to attend a workshop and receive
a 55-gallon FreeGarden rain barrel email
[email protected] or call 412.488.7490 X 247
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ROSS TOWNSHIP