Negley Run Task Force

The Negley Run Watershed Task Force logo is used courtesy of Living Waters Pittsburgh.

The Negley Run Watershed Task Force (NRWTF) was formed in 2017 out of the Living Waters of Larimer project. The NRWTF is an interdisciplinary collaboration to engage community, creatives, and professionals in urban ecosystem regeneration. With the City of Pittsburgh and related agencies, the Task Force will support innovative rainwater stewardship and conveyance strategies. The Task Force’s approach will introduce habitat, (bio)diversity, ecological function, and stormwater stewardship into municipal, agency, and private development plans and programs that may otherwise lack a holistic systems perspective to watershed conservation and management, and CSO and flood control.

For many years the NRWTF was supported by the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy (PPC) through their Watershed Task Force program within six priority watersheds in the City of Pittsburgh. In 2025 PPC handed off the NRWTF to UpstreamPgh to continue working in the Negley Run Watershed.

2025 Recap

UpstreamPgh convened three NRWTF meetings in 2025 to engage residents, non-profits, local utilities and government agencies in watershed events, projects and discussions. Throughout the year we featured presentations including:

Rain Reclaim
RAND’s Health and High Water Study
he Watersmith Guild’s First Waves of Negley Run
The Allegheny River Boulevard Preservation Management Plan
Carnegie Mellon University Senior Engineering Design Capstone project
…and many more.

UpstreamPgh will continue to convene the quarterly NRWTF meetings and partner on events throughout the watershed.

Negley Run Environmental Equity Study

Expanding upon our efforts to map inequity within the Nine Mile Run Watershed, the Negley Run Environmental Equity Study was developed to aid in planning Green Stormwater Infrastructure projects in the Negley Run Watershed. Similar to our Watershed, the Negley Run Watershed is characterized by stark differences in prosperity, opportunity, health, and safety for residents only a few blocks from each other. Read more.