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The Fall 2022 Guardian newsletter from the Susquehanna River Basin Commission features articles on-- -- New Season:  Eels in the Classroom -- Fish Detectives on the Case -- Who Dunnit? -- Spreading Science -- SRBC Scientist's Research Published -- Coming Soon:  Consumptive Use Grants Round 2 -- Downstream Happenings -- Executive Director's Message Click Here to read the entire newsletter .  Click Here to sign up for your own copy. For more information on programs, training opportunities and upcoming events, visit the Susquehanna River Basin Commission website.  Click Here to sign up for SRBC’s newsletter.    Follow SRBC on Twitter , visit them on YouTube . ( Photo: Johanna Hripto, SRBC Environmental Scientist.) NewsClips: -- Williamsport Sun Outdoors: New Clean Water Violations On Loyalsock Should Spark Change, Improved Hellbender Protection - By John Zaktansky, Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper -- Middle Susquehanna RiverKeeper: New Clean Water Violations On Loyalsock Cree

On October 3, the Environmental Integrity Project, Food & Water Watch, Mountain Watershed Association , the Youghiogheny Riverkeeper , and individual citizens raised serious environmental compliance concerns about Olympus Energy as part of their comments on an erosion and sedimentation control permit for a proposed Heracles shale gas drilling pad in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County. Olympus Energy is proposing to construct a 500-foot by 340-foot unconventional natural gas drilling well pad with a 3,750-foot long by 24-foot wide access road.  The project will disturb a total of 24.2 acres of land, according to DEP’s PA Bulletin notice ( page 5696 ). DEP said the site will discharge or have the potential to discharge stormwater to a tributary to Fallen Timber Run which is already determined to have impaired water quality as a result of siltation ( PA Bulletin, page 5696 ) Construction of the well pad will also involve surface mining coal from the site.  Olympus is being require