The public is invited to a meeting of the Trout Unlimited Susquehanna Chapter featuring Brian Cooper, project manager for Trout Unlimited’s PA AMD Program, as well as Tom Clark, project manager for the AMD Program at Kleinfelder Engineering in State College.

The meeting will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 8, at 7 p.m. at the Covenant Central Presbyterian Church at 807 W. Fourth Street in Williamsport. Parking and entrance to the church is at the rear of the building with access off of Campbell Street.

AMD is one of the two leading causes of stream impairment in Pennsylvania with more than 5,500 miles of AMD-impaired waterways in the state.

Cooper will discuss TU managed passive treatment systems in Two-Mile Creek (Kettle Creek Watershed), Potts Run (Clearfield Creek Watershed) as well as work being done to restore Beech Creek, a large, cold-water watershed in Centre and Clinton counties.

He will also touch on recovery of the West Branch Susquehanna River, as well as TU’s AMD technical assistance program that provides free biological, chemical and engineering support to conservation districts, non-profits and government entities to address AMD impairment.

Clark will discuss the redesign of two passive treatment systems currently treating AMD discharges into the headwaters of Loyalsock Creek and how these new systems will treat a much higher percentage of each discharge, as well as limit thermal pollution of the treated water that flows into Loyalsock Creek.

For more information, those interested can visit https://susquehannatu.com.