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Approved
PA Conservation Corps Project List
by Centre Regional Recreation Authority
for July 2004 - June 2005
(as of 7 Jan 04) |
A. At
Millbrook Marsh Nature Center, 614 Puddintown Road, College
Twp.:
1.
* Continue work on renovating ground floor of barn into a “Wet
Lab” for use by school students for wetland education
exercises (will also use EPA Wetlands Grant Funds for materials).
Will involve electrical, plumbing, carpentry, masonry work,
construction of student work tables. (Preliminary portions
of this project were included in the current-year grant project) 640
mh
2.
Construct* & install interpretive signs in & around
the 62-acre marsh 120
mh
3.
Complete boardwalk system enhancements 205
mh
4.
Plant parking lot landscaping (trees & shrubs) 260
mh Nature
Center Subtotal 1,225 mh
B. At
other municipal park sites within 5 miles of the nature center:
5. Construct
trail upgrades and erosion controls at:
• Thompson
Woods Preserve (College Twp. & Borough of State College) 125
mh
• Sunset
Park (Borough of State College) 72
mh
• Stan
Yoder Memorial Preserve (Harris Twp.) 125
mh
6. Install
park benches along trails at Stan Yoder Memorial Preserve (Harris
Twp.) 40
mh
7. Continue
planting and maintaining Remembrance Trees and Memorial Benches
in various parks 600
mh
8. Continue
building portable toilet screening enclosures and pads at 5
parks, 280
mh
9. Continue
playground upgrades to meet CPSC Safety Guidelines and ADA
compliance at Woodycrest, Green Hollow, Dalevue, Suburban,
Holmes Foster, Tusseyview, and Fasick Parks1,200 mh
10.Install
drinking fountains and benches at Fogleman Fields Park (a new
15-acre park in College Twp.) 200
mh
11.
Create and landscape a terraced bank at Park Forest Community
Swimming Pool 240
mh
12. Tudek
Memorial Park - Farmstead area: work on barn and outbuilding
renovation projects 290
mh
13.
At Fasick park, plant trees and shrubs to form riparian
buffer along Spring Creek (in Harris Twp.) (in partnership
with Clearwater Conservancy/ PA DEP Growing Greener Grant
to furnish plant materials) 280
mh
14. At
10 parks, ballfield safety renovations: lip removal, minor
grading, add infield amendments 400
mh
15.
Construct single-table pavilions for Fasick Totlot, High Point
Park, Park Forest Totlot, Green Hollow, Graysdale, and Mt.
Nittany Conservancy 720
mh
16.
At Spring Creek Park, replace T-111 wood siding on restroom
building 280
mh
17.
Install electric service in pavilions at Spring Creek, Orchard
and Sunset Parks (5 pavs total) 480
mh
18.
At Slab Cabin Park, remove invasive plants along stream and
replant with native species 280
mh
19. At Fasick Park, build boardwalk over washout
area to existing bridge. 200mh Parks
Subtotal 5,812 mh
C. At
Centre County Historical Society (on CCHS property, ½ mile
from the nature center):
20.
Continuing development of walking paths at Centre
Furnace 150
mh
21.
*Continue & complete reconstruction of 19th century
log house 985
mh
(Portions
of this project were included in the current-year PCC project)
22.
Reinforce/ rebuild foundations of 2 outbuildings 120
mh
23. Completion
of connecting walking path between Centre Furnace & Millbrook
Marsh Nature Center 400
mh
(This
project was included in the current-year PCC project)
CCHS
Total 1,655
mh GRAND
TOTAL 8,692 mh
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