90.5 WESA - Pennsylvania and Pittsburgh officials are acting quickly to replace the collapsed Fern Hollow Bridge. While that has some concerned about a rushed idea for the bridge’s aesthetic, others are sounding the alarm about what an accelerated project could mean for Fern Hollow...
KDKA – Two weeks after the Fern Hollow Bridge collapse, environmental groups are working to make sure all the debris left behind doesn’t destroy the environment of Frick Park, including the creek at the bottom of the ravine. Groups like UpstreamPgh have already noticed some changes...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Editorial Board - As city, state and federal governments prepare to clean up and rebuild the Fern Hollow Bridge, the emphasis will be almost entirely on the “Bridge,” and not the “Fern Hollow.” But it’s important to remember that this bridge was, and will...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Local ecologists are monitoring the possible negative effects of the Fern Hollow Bridge collapse on the surrounding ecosystem. UpstreamPgh, previously known as the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association, is an organization concerned with the preservation of Nine Mile Run, a stream that runs...
PublicSource - When Betty Foster-Pinkley’s mom passed away in 2010, she took over responsibility for the family house in the East Hills. The house she and her six siblings grew up in is at the very bottom of Dornbush Street. With a slope of 32 degrees,...
The Allegheny Front - Three projects are taking shape under the Environment, Health, and Public Art Initiative, a program of Pittsburgh’s Office of Public Art. Artists are collaborating with local organizations to create temporary works of public art that will draw attention to the environmental health...
NEXTpittsburgh - As the executive director of the Nine Mile Watershed Association, Brenda Lynn Smith isn’t one to go with the flow. Smith, along with a nine-person staff, members and volunteers, is taking a proactive approach to preserving the ecology of the 6.5-square-mile area and mitigating...
Tribune-Review - The state Department of Environmental Protection awarded $582,000 to the Nine Mile Run Watershed Association to install natural drainage with rain gardens and bioswales in two Wilkinsburg parking lots. Underground stomwater storage tanks will also be installed. The gardens, bioswales and storage tanks will...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - What is the color of water? That depends. Colorless in its purest atomic form, water seen from another perspective can take on the hues of the minerals it contains, the biological matter that has dissolved in it or the chemical reactions occurring around...
WESA - The Nine Mile Run Watershed Association is poised to begin construction on a green infrastructure project to reduce combined sewer overflow at Oakwood and Batavia streets in Homewood. City Council will vote Wednesday on a bill that would let construction begin. The watershed association wants to build...