Great things are happening in the Turtle Creek watershed.
A limestone-influenced wild brown trout stream, Turtle Creek flows through wooded and mixed agricultural lands in southeastern Union County, Pa., before it joins the Susquehanna River south of Lewisburg. Turtle Creek and many of its tributaries had steep eroding banks with too-wide channels, and the streams were choked with sediment. Almost all of the streams in the watershed were listed as impaired by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.
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