August 14, 2011:
The Peters Creek Watershed Association, which quietly improves, monitors and stocks trout in Allegheny County's Peters Creek, has asked Pennsylvania America Water for about $60,000 in compensation following a July 6 fish kill that wiped out stocked trout, minnows, insects and other wildlife on several miles of the stream.
Read more:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11226/1167076-358.stm#ixzz1oyM82E34 On July 7, 2011 a water main burst in Green Man’s Tunnel and flushed half of South Park’s salt
storage deposit into Piney Fork and Peters Creek. This event caused a fish kill in Peters Creek all the way
to the Mon River. The Pennsylvania American Water Company has stepped up and provided $34,512.39
to the Tri-Community Anglers and the Peters Creek Watershed Association so that we can restore
damage and continue work to improve Peters Creek. We thank them for being good neighbors.
We determined that sufficient insect and macro life in the stream survived the spill to resume stocking;
the first being for Kids Day 2011. Now, more than ever, we are in need of your membership, time and
support so that we can make fishing in Peters Creek as memorable as ever!
The Peters Creek Sanitary Authority is proposing to build a sewage treatment plant that would
discharge into Peters Creek about a mile above the stocked portion of the stream even though a sewer
line already exists to pipe this sewage down to the Clairton Municipal Authority Treatment plant near the
mouth of Peters Creek. We are already familiar with the effect that sewage treatment plant discharges can
have on our creeks including contributing to excessive algae and fish kills of their own. Upgrading the
Clairton facility would make a new sewage treatment plant along Peters Creek unnecessary.
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We are planning two clean-up days in 2012. First cleanup will be
Saturday, April 7 at 9:00 a.m. We will meet at the “Iron Bridge†located
1/2 miles from Large on Peters Creek Road. The second clean-up will be
on Saturday, September 15 at 9:00 a.m., same starting point.
http://tcaa.peterscreek.org/tcaanews2012.pdf I think they usually stock on the clean up days. But to just to be sure...
You can email the TCAA at
peterscreekwsa@verizon.net