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Upper Makefield Townsihp

BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA

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EAC General Information

Links to Environmental Agencies

Heritage Conservancy

1. www.heritageconservancy.org/publications/landowner_options.html
• Landowners' options for protecting family lands
• Land Conservation Strategies
• Fee Simple Donation
• Conservation Easement Donation
• Bargain Sale
2. www.heritageconservancy.org/publications/landowner_qa.html
• Conservation Easements: Questions and Answers
3. www.heritageconservancy.org/publications/glossary.html
• Resource Protections Glossary of Terms
4. www.heritageconservancy.org/publications/index.html
• Table of Contents for links
• Land Conservation Strategies: A Guide for Landowners
• Opportunity Knocks (Heritage Conservancy Publications)
5. www.heritageconservancy.org/publications/opportunity/index.html
• Heritage Conservancy Publications
• Articles discussing Strategies for raising money for Open Space, Act 153
  Tax Freeze Provisions etc.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Official site of the federal agency whose mission is to protect human health and safeguard the natural environment.

Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)
Assists residents in preserving, sustaining, protecting, and enhancing the environment to ensure the integration of high environmental quality, public health, and economic vitality.

Federal Emergency Management Association (FEMA)

Department of Agriculture

Board of Assessments
The board maintains policies, management operations ... and supervises the assessments within the County.

Clean Air Council

Power Scorecard
Rating the environmental impact of electricity products.

Open Space Preservation

• Act 153
• Farm Preservation Tax Freeze
• Tax Freeze Provisions
• Preservation Plan
• UMT Open Space Preservation Plan (This is an Adobe Acrobat file and is around 50 pages)
• Agricultural Land Map
• Historic Resources Map
• Open Space Inventory Map
• Act 515
• Flood Maps for Act 515
• Act 319 - from the Board of Assessments

Approved Ordinances Passed By The Board of Supervisors

• Canal Overlay Ordinance - amend the Joint Municipal Ordinance related to the special minimum setback for new structures along the Delaware and Lehigh navigation canal national heritage corridor.
• Floodplain Ordinance

Farmland Preservation

• Information from the PA Dept of Agriculture

PEC Award

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations, The Upper Makefield Township Board of Supervisors has received notification that the Pennsylvania Environmental Council has awarded the Township the 2003 EAC Achievement Award for the Heritage Hills Reforestation Project. Congratulations and a job well done to the Upper Makefield Township Environmental Advisory Council and the Board of Supervisors contributed their time and efforts to this award winning environmental project.

PRESS RELEASE

On Saturday, March 16, 2002, the Upper Makefield Township EAC received the 2002 EAC Achievement Award for its Land Application System to Facilitate Groundwater Recharge of Tertiary-treated Sewage Effluent.

Pictured above, from right to left, are:

Andrew McElwaine, President of PA Environmental Council, Bud Baldwin, Upper Makefield EAC, Robert West, Chairperson of Upper Makefield EAC, and Joseph Feola, Regional Director of PA DEP (front row) and Don Gephart, Recreation and Parks Advisory, DCNR and Scott Petri, Special Counsel to Upper Makefield Township (back row)

The governor’s award, the second received by Upper Makefield Township, is the result of efforts by representatives of Upper Makefield Township to replenish the acquifier in conjunction with the approval of the Arbours at Washington Crossing, an age-qualified community. The approval of the Arbours project requires that the existing Heritage Hills plant be expanded, waste water emanating from the plant for the Arbours and Heritage Hills be treated to tertiary standards, and allowed to recharge into the ground, thereby replenishing ground water.

As part of the Award, the Upper Makefield Township EAC received a check for $500.00.