River Currents - Lackawanna River Corridor Association

River Currents
Newsletter of the Lackawanna River Corridor Association
Volume 20
Winter/Spring 2013
Number 1
LRCA’s “Rite of Spring” June 1st
The Lackawanna River Corridor Association (LRCA) is
proud to host RiverFest 2013 on Saturday June 1, 2013.
We will have a full day with the 41st fun paddle and
white water Canoe-A-Thon, the River Regatta, the ever
popular DuckA-Thon,
an
afternoon
of
special music,
educational &
environmental
displays, family
activities
and
fun. All events
finish or begin at the Olive Street Bridge across from
3 West Olive complex (formerly The Ice Box).
Canoe and kayak paddlers prepare! Launch sites will
be the traditional Archbald and Blakely locations. Canoes
and kayaks are available for rent at the Blakely location
or you can bring your own. The competitive and leisurely
spirited are both encouraged to join us! To ensure preregistration and secure equipment rentals, please make
sure registration forms (see inside or go to www.lrca.org)
are completed and received by the LRCA no later than
Wednesday, May 29, 2013. You can view the Canoe-AThon by stopping along the river at one of the many bridges over the Lackawanna River or walk along sections of
the river bank to cheer them on or see the many dedicated
paddlers arrive at the finish line. See You All There!
The Lackawanna River Regatta was well received
last year! We encourage businesses, community groups
and family/friends to consider being part of the Regatta
which is both a celebration and a rite. It can be simultaneously spectral and comedic. Creativity, zaniness, imagination, lunacy in decoration(s), skill in communicating
message(s) and/or theme are part of this fun event. Registration and/or pre-registration gives you a launch berth
for your floating beast or spectical! Prizes will be awarded by the “River Doge.” Registration forms are available
at www.lrca.org or at our office located in the Silkman
House. Call 570-347-6311.
The courageous LRCA flock of ten “duckies” takes
a mid-river launch near the Middle Street Pumping station next to the Farmers Market into the waters of the
Lackawanna River, for an exciting race to the finish at
the Olive Street Bridge. These fiercely competitive racers will slog it out for the pole position for that famous
feathery dash to the checkered flag! Cash prizes of $500,
$250, and $100 will be awarded to the sponsors of the
first, second, and third place ducks, respectively, that
cross the finish line. To sponsor a duck or a flock, stop
by our offices, visit our website, clip and mail the form attached or purchase at the LRCA membership tent during
RiverFest 2013.
In addition to all the above mentioned activities,
RiverFest has a plethora of finish line activities and
entertainment that kicks off with a lineup of fantastic
music. Family and children’s activities include a live
wildlife presentation, an aquatic critter search, face
painting and a river themed art project. Environmental
exhibits will focus on water quality, alternative energy,
invasive species and wildlife gardening. There will also
be informational exhibits from local environmental organizations, food from local eateries and much more!
Once again we will have special instructional kayak
trips available at the finish line with Art Coolbaugh of
Susquehanna Kayak & Canoe Rental based in Falls, PA.
Here is your special opportunity to paddle the river in a
safe and guided course with a minimum of whitewater.
This course is designed for inexperienced paddlers or people looking for a short afternoon paddle along a historic
reach of river through North Scranton. For $35.00 per
person, 20 people per trip will be driven to a launch site
in the Plot for a guided instructional paddle excursion
along the river in Scranton. The excursions will depart
the RiverFest site at Olive Street in Scranton at 1:30
P.M. and 3:30 P.M. The trips will last approximately 1
hour. Registration will be available on site at the LRCA
membership tent beginning at Noon.
Show the world you are supporting the work of
the LRCA to help clean up, conserve and protect the
Lackawanna River and its watershed.
We need many volunteers for this annual event.
Please consider becoming a LRCA Volunteer!!!!
2012 Regatta Participants
Heritage Explorer Bike Tour
Keystone College “A Team”
Executive Directors Notes:
Winter 2013
be done for the Lackawanna River” in the Lackawanna
Station Hotel in the summer of 1987. That big meeting and a series of follow up meetings led to the creation
of the LRCA as a pro-active watershed conservation organization.
We stressed the focus on Pro-action rather than
Re-action to differentiate the LRCA from other environmental organizations. We developed a consensus
that the best way to advance our mission to clean up
the Lackawanna and involve the entire community with
the river would be to focus on positive forward looking
projects that involved people directly with their river and
watershed. We continue to do that as we look ahead to
the next 25 years. There are still legacy issues to deal
with related to coal mining and urban development.
There are also new issues as well. Twenty five years
ago most people never heard of hydrolic fracturing, consumptive use or concentrated animal feeding operations
(CAFO’s), Combined Sewer Overflows (CSO’s), TMDL’s
or Total Maximum Daily Loads and MS4’s Municipal
Separate Storm Sewer Systems. CAFO’s are large concentrations of animals such as chicken farms, hog farms
and beef cattle feed lots.
Hydrolic fracturing more commonly known as “fracking” and consumptive use, that is taking water from our
rivers, streams and lakes to use in an industrial process,
for public water supplies or for agricultural and landscape
irrigation such as watering golf courses are becoming
more common as issues in Pennsylvania. LRCA remains
very concerned that the individual and cumulative effects
of fracking may have immediate and long term negative
impacts on the waters of Pennsylvania. We are monitoring eight locations on key tributary streams around the
perimeter of the Lackawanna Watershed to collect base
line data on several indicators of possible impacts from
shale gas drilling activities.
Although there are not currently any active well drilling activities in the Lackawanna Watershed, there are
several permitted well pads in the upper Lackawanna
in Ararat and Pleasant Mount townships and several
supply facilities in Carbondale and Duryea. LRCA has
been monitoring for salinity, total dissolved and total
suspended solids, TDS and TSS temperature and pH at
eight locations including one each on the east and west
branches of the Lackawanna River in Herrick township
and one along the main stem in Carbondale.
This year we continue celebrating the LRCA’s 25th
anniversary as the premier river conservation organization in the northeast Pennsylvania area. We are
completing plans that propose a major regional environmental project at the Confluence of the Lackawanna and
Susquehanna Rivers. We are initiating an inventory of
the Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System in Scranton
and continuing work with the Scranton Sewer Authority
to eliminate Combined Sewer Overflows. We are continuing collaboration with the Lackawanna Heritage
Valley Authority to advance the further development
of the River Trail. We’re collaborating with our affiliate the Lackawanna Valley Conservancy (LVC) to
acquire an important river access site in Jessup. We are
working with the Lackawanna Valley Trout Unlimited
on a river access site development at Sweeney’s Beach off
Poplar Street in Scranton, and we are celebrating it all
with RiverFest on Saturday June 1st.
Our community created the LRCA as a non-profit
river advocacy organization on October 5, 1987. I have to
say that I joked that the program committee that planned
the LRCA’s 25th anniversary celebration was a bit off their
rocker deciding to roast the LRCA Executive Director as
the “Main Event” at a community dinner held at the
Scranton Cultural Center last September 27th. I was
almost speechless as the event was more toast than roast.
I came armed
and ready for
bear! But the
roasters either
had only good
things to say or
made stuff up!
Nobody had the
really good stories. And I’m not telling now… A good time was had by
all and I want to thank everyone for the opportunity to
continue being the Executive Director of the LRCA.
We have been working twenty five years now for
a cleaner, better, safer Lackawanna River and we are
starting to see some progress in that direction. It hardly
seems possible, but it’s that long ago that a group of
over 400 local residents gathered to “see what could
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LRCA Board of Directors
Anita Lohin, President; Sharon Yanik-Craig, 1st Vice President; Timothy Barrett, 2nd Vice President; Jack Finnerty, 3rd Vice President; Michelene Kennedy,
Treasurer; Douglas Heller, Assistant Treasurer: Patrick O’Dea, Secretary; Patrick Cuff, Assistant Secretary; Bernard McGurl, Executive Director
Paul Bechtel, Dominick DeFazio, John Gable, Joseph Grant, Michael Grant, David Gromelski, Sean Hanley, Deilsie Kulesa, Angela Lambert,
Vincent Marshall, Ruthann Martin, Phil McCarthy, Michael Morin, Kate O’Connor, Kathleen O’Hara, James Williams
Lackawanna River Corridor Association
Post Office Box 368
Scranton, Pennsylvania 18501
570.347.6311
[email protected]
www.lrca.org
River Currents is published quarterly.
Newsletter layout & edited by: Barb Semian, Program Manager
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LRCA’s mission is to involve citizens of our watershed with
conservation and stewardship of the River, its tributaries and
water resources. Four goals define our mission: clean up the
River environment; aid in the development of the 40-mile
Lackawanna River Heritage Trail; create partnerships among
local, state, and federal agencies, businesses and community
groups promoting conservation and recreation; and develop
partnerships with schools, universities, and the general public
to promote environmental and conservation education to
better understand our relationship with the local environment.
LRCA continues to monitor activities and sites associated with the shale gas industry as we monitor all aspects
of various industrial, commercial and individual actions
and activities that may adversely affect the Lackawanna
River and its watershed resources. We can’t do it alone.
We can use your help in our River Watch Program. If
you’d like to volunteer, please contact us to get involved.
If you see something along the River or out anywhere in
the Lackawanna Watershed, that you suspect may be of
concern, please call the LRCA at 347-6311.
There is a whole new alphabet of acronyms that
relate to water pollution that we have a lot of responsibility for as individuals. In the urban and suburban
environment, the decisions and lifestyle choices that each
of us makes as individuals, families, small businesses
and municipalities, is increasingly critical to the quality
of the water that flows through our lives.
Twenty five years ago you probably hadn’t heard of
WIP’s, TMDL’s CSO’s or MS4’s. Today and tomorrow
these acronyms will become increasingly important in
our relationship with every drop of water that falls out of
the sky and passes through our community on its way to
the Chesapeake Bay. Check out the article “CSO’s, MS4
AND ALL THAT” for the latest on your connections to the
Chesapeake.
River Basin Commission (SRBC). We have just published
a report on this work titled “The Lower Lackawanna
River Watershed Restoration Assessment Plan” (LLRWRAP). It is available on our website at www.lrca.org
in our Special Projects section. We are now looking for
funding to carry this work on to the next level to involve
state and federal agencies and private industry interests.
We expect that this Plan will foster the start of
a multi-year program that will see the Lackawanna/
Susquehanna Confluence Area undergo an environmental and economic revitalization. This transformation
will be centered on the development of a mine drainage
treatment plant and the recycling of the surrounding
abandoned mine lands and culm dumps as an eco-industrial park: cleaning up the orange river, providing openspace habitat and recreation while providing sustainable
employment and investment opportunities.
We are looking to involve local residents with
backgrounds in engineering, science, resource management, conservation and economic development to participate in a stakeholder’s task force to help advance the
outcomes of the Lower Lackawanna Plan.
Please contact [email protected] for further information on this initiative.
CSO’S, MS4 AND ALL THAT
SAGA OF THE ORANGE RIVER CONTINUES
You may have
seen the Lower
Lackawanna
River as it flows
out of Old Forge
and passes in
to Duryea. The
rocks on the riverbed are stained
orange with iron
oxide that precipitates out of the 60 million gallons of water flowing into
the Lackawanna River through the Old Forge Bore Hole.
This mine drain was constructed by the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania in the summer of 1962 to stabilize the
flooded mine voids under the Lackawanna Valley. This
has been polluting the Lackawanna and Susquehanna
Rivers with over 6000 pounds of iron oxide every day for
the past 50 years.
The LRCA believes that there are resources and
technologies available that can stop this pollution. In
order to advance a project to treat this mine water flow
and remove the oxides from the rivers, LRCA has initiated a partnership of stakeholders and is conducting an
assessment study to collect data on the mine water flows
and get the site qualified for state and federal funding
to assist with development of a mine water treatment
plant.
LRCA has been conducting this work in collaboration
with the Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned
Mine Reclamation (EPCAMR) and the Susquehanna
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Combined Sewer Systems (CSS), Combined Sewer
Overflow’s (CSO’s) and Municipal Separate Storm Sewer
Systems (MS4’s) are terms which describe the systems
of pipes under the streets of our communities that carry
storm water and sewage. Some of these systems are
combined and carry sewage to the sewer treatment plant
and also carry storm water from rain and snow storms.
These are the CSS or combined sewer systems. When
the CSS receive too much storm water during peak storm
events they are designed to overflow into a nearby stream
or river to prevent back flooding of combined stormwater
and sewage into streets and homes. The locations where
the overflows occur are known as CSO’s. The overflow
events are also referred to as CSO events.
MS4’s refer to the system of pipes, culverts, drainage
swales, collection basins, ponds and stream corridors that
separately collect and convey storm water from our community and are not connected to a sanitary sewer system.
The MS4 system includes all of the impervious surfaces
such as roofs, parking lots, driveways, sidewalks, streets,
roads, bridges, and highways. The undeveloped natural
surfaces of our community are also part of the MS4 system. These natural areas, woodlands, agricultural lands,
suburban and urban lawn and garden areas and commercial and institutional landscape beds are the basic green
infrastructure that is critical to helping our communities
meet our responsibilities for clean water.
All of the towns along the Lackawanna River have
both combined and separate sewer systems. The combined systems are typical of many similar communities
in the northeast United States. There are new requirements under the Clean Water Act that address CSO’s
Cont. on page 4
Looking for something to do?
Volunteer with the LRCA or the LVC!!!
Call 570-347-6311 or
email [email protected]
and MS4’s. Our sewer authorities and local municipalities are now responsible for greater compliance with
these new Clean Water Act regulations.
SCRANTON SEWER AUTHORITY COMPLETES
NEW CSO CONTROL PLAN
LRCA SECURES FEDERAL FUNDING TO ASSIST
SCRANTON AND DUNMORE ON MS4 INVENTORY
The Scranton Sewer Authority, which serves the City
of Scranton, the Borough of Dunmore and small portions
of Dickson City, Taylor and Moosic has just completed
the design of a Long Term Control Plan to reduce and
eliminate up to 90% of the CSO events in a given year.
The plan calls for some separation of sewers but it primarily relies on the installation of an extensive system of
concrete box culverts to act as storage containers for combined storm and sanitary flows. This will allow the flows
to be held in the system and treated at the sewer plant
after the storm event passes. The plan is estimated to
cost about $140 million dollars when fully built. In order
to help make the plan more affordable to the residents of
Scranton and Dunmore, the plan will be carried out over
the next 25 years. The Authority will seek low interest
loans and grants from Penn Vest and finance the balance
with long term bonds.
The plan also provides the potential to use green
infrastructure to help reduce flows of storm water into
the combined sewer system. Homeowners, businesses
and institutional campuses will have opportunities to
redirect stormwater into the separate storm system by
way of rain gardens, green roofs and the redesign of parking lots and roadways to capture and redirect storm flows
away from the combined system.
The Final Draft of the Long Term Control Plan was
approved by the Board of the Scranton Sewer Authority
on October 23, 2012 and submitted to the Environmental
Protection Agency. As of January 2013 the plan has
been approved through a consent decree in Federal
District Court. A copy is available for your review and
comments on the LRCA web site, www.lrca.org or on the
Scranton Sewer Authority web site at www.scrantonsewer.org. A printed copy is available in the reference
department of the Scranton Public Library. While the
work to eliminate the Scranton CSO’s moves ahead the
LRCA will work with the Authority and the residents of
Scranton and Dunmore to help involve the community
with ongoing activities that will help improve the overall
quality of the Lackawanna River and its environment.
Your comments, questions and your involvement are
always welcome and encouraged! Please visit our websites listed above or contact the LRCA at 570-347-6311 or
[email protected] for information.
Like us on FaceBook!! Go to
www.facebook.com/LRCAandLVC
Scranton and Dunmore are also looking at new
federal mandates that address the MS4 system. All of
the towns along the Lackawanna are also now required
to develop a plan and get their storm sewer system
permitted through the National Pollution Discharge
Elimination System also known as NPDES. LRCA has
just initiated collaboration with the City of Scranton
through the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and
the Environmental Finance Center of the University of
Maryland to develop a plan for the Scranton/Dunmore
MS4 system.
Just what is the MS4 system? We will first need to
define the system. It is more than a network of catch
basins, pipes, culverts, swales and retention ponds. It
also includes all of the lands that drain into and through
the basins and culverts as well as the creeks and river
that receive the storm water. The “impervious surfaces”
such as the roofs of our homes and commercial buildings
and our parking lots, driveways, streets and highways
all shed water. The pervious surfaces in our community
such as natural woodlands, parklands, floodplains, fields
and areas with lawns or meadows all have a capacity to
absorb and hold large amounts of stormwater and allow
it to infiltrate into the earth to become groundwater and
feed the springs that are the sources of water in our
creeks and rivers.
As we define, map and inventory the various natural
and manmade aspects of the MS4 system, we will look
at the ownership patterns of the system and develop a
series of recommendations to better manage those portions that are on private property and those that are publicly owned. We will also look at areas of the community
where there were creeks that no longer exist. They may
have been filled in or put into a system of brick and stone
culverts during the days of coal mining. These areas are
often the source of flood damage to nearby homes and
businesses. The MS4 plan will look at long term ways
that the natural water drainage patterns can be restored
and the quality of the storm waters that flow through our
neighborhoods to the Lackawanna River can be improved
over the next generations.
Do you have a stormwater problem in your neighborhood? Are there areas where stormwater ponds up on
properties or along roadways? Are the catch basins on
your street functioning? Are there culverts or other pipes
that you have concerns about in your neighborhood? If
you have concerns about stormwater problems, let the
LRCA know about them by phone at 347-6311 or email
us at [email protected].
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Visits April, 2012. Bernie and I were invited to represent the LRCA and the Lackawanna Valley Conservancy
(LVC) at West Point , New York for the annual Thaddeus
Kosciuszko celebration. We joined Carol Gargan and her
family for the Parade of Cadets
and the celebratory service at
the Kosciuszko Monument overlooking the Hudson River. The
weather was clear with blue sky
and plenty of sunshine.
Walking down the steps
and ramp to visit the Kosciusko
Garden, constructed by him in
1778, one can only be astonished
when arriving at the location.
Built on a steep rock bank above
the Hudson River, it is a place of great peacefulness! The
fountains and plants only enhance the beauty and comfort one feels.
August 6, 2012. The LRCA, LVC and Carol Gargan
welcomed Simonas Satunas, Chief of Mission Lithuanian
Embassy and Evaldas Stankevicius, First Lithuanian
Cultural Attache to the U.S., for the dedication of the
Kosciuska Healing
Garden. All gathered were treated
to food and beverages that contained
ingredients representing the native
plants and shrubs
THE LRCA KAYAK EXCHANGE
The LRCA is pleased to announce
that we are hosting a Kayak
Exchange through our newsletter
“Lackawanna River Currents”,
on our website, lrca.org, on our
FaceBook pages and via our
e-mail alerts. The LRCA Kayak
Exchange is a forum for our members to offer their used Kayaks,
Canoes, paddles, pfd’s and any
other related paddling gear for sale or trade. We are also
encouraging members to write brief stories about their
paddle trips AND to post the dates and times when they
are planning a paddle on the Lackawanna or other nearby streams in Northeastern Pennsylvania. We are doing
this both as a service to our members and to promote
the Lackawanna as a Paddling Destination by linking
paddlers together to share ideas, equipment, experiences
and a sense of the fun and enjoyment a day on the river
can provide!
So, if you have a kayak, canoe or paddling gear for
sale, or if you are looking for used equipment, the LRCA
Kayak Exchange is the place to go. It can also be a
go-to place to find a paddling partner or share your next
paddling excursion with like-minded folks. We are also
looking for experienced paddlers to relate paddling advice
about the Lackawanna. We are looking for advice on
good “put-in” and “take-out” locations, information on
good passages across riffles, and where there are particular rocks, obstructions, and strainers to avoid and how
to avoid them.
If there are groups of paddlers planning a series of
runs and shuttles and you’d like to spread the word, the
LRCA Kayak Exchange is the place to post your event.
You can send your post to [email protected] subject line
“LRCA Kayak Exchange”, or call LRCA at 347-6311.
that have been reintroduced in this garden by the beautiful
Lackawanna River.
Have some stories, tales, pix about your time on the
Lackawanna? Let us hear & see! All welcome!!
Written by: Barb Semian,
LRCA Program Manager
Great American Cleanup PA May 2012
Great American Cleanup PA
March 1 to May 31, 2013
The LRCA will have cleanups during this time.
April 20, 2013
“Bridge to Bridge Cleanup”
9AM - 3PM
Plot Section in North Scranton
Meet at the Shawnee Avenue
Pumping Station
“Sweeney’s Beach” above;
Contact the LRCA to Volunteer!!
Coxton Point, right
570-347-6311
[email protected]
www.lrca.org
www.facebook.com/LRCAandLVC
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2012 LRCA
and
LVC Activities
Misty Ridge Dedication April 2012
Downspout Disconnect
Workshop
May, 2012
Lackawanna River Recon
June 2012
“Arts on Fire” June 2012
EnviroScape Demos
“Go with the Flow”
August 2012
Fishing the Lackawanna River
June 2012
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Remember When?????
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LRCA 25th Anniversary Highlights
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Lackawanna River Regatta 2013 Registration Form
Name of Vessel: _________________________________________________________________
Theme of Vessel (optional): _________________________________________________________
Name of Family or Sponsor Group: ____________________________________________________
Name of Business Sponsor: _________________________________________________________
Please Print Clearly
Captain ________________________________
Bosun _________________________________
Address _______________________________
Address _______________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
Phone _________________________________
Phone _________________________________
e-mail _________________________________
e-mail _________________________________
First Mate _____________________________
Seaman ________________________________
Address _______________________________
Address _____________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
______________________________________
Phone _________________________________
Phone _________________________________
e-mail _________________________________
e-mail _________________________________
Yeoman ________________________________
Date Received: __________________
Address _______________________________
______________________________________
Staff Initial: ___________________
______________________________________
Phone _________________________________
Assigned Regatta Number: _________
e-mail _________________________________
I/We hereby register for and state our intentions to participate in the Lackawanna River Regatta 2013. I/We hereby acknowledge that participation in the River Regatta will require some physical exertion and exposure to some dangerous conditions. I/We
agree to hold the Lackawanna River Corridor Association (LRCA) harmless from any liabilities which may arise from or in
connection with the use of any form of the ridiculous, sublimely absurd or sardonically evocative nature of our Regatta entry,
its methods of navigation, communication, decoration or our techniques in the use of duct tape; whether or not we use duct tape
or admit that we use duct tape. I/We certify that I/We are physically fit and have trained sufficiently for this event. I/We
also acknowledge that we are aware of Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission regulations requiring all small craft crew and passengers to have a Personal Floatation Device and a whistle or horn at hand. This release is signed voluntarily and is binding upon
the below signed, his/her heirs, executors or assigns. By signing this release I acknowledge that I have read the LRCA River
Regatta rules and agree to abide by them.
Signature: ____________________________________________________ Date: ___________________
RF ‘13 “Currents” Regatta Reg.
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REGISTRATION LRCA RIVERFEST CANOE-A-THON
SATURDAY June 1, 2013
1. CHOOSE YOUR CATEGORY (Competitive deadline May 30, 2013. Placed in competitive Heats Only!)
_____ COMPETITIVE - competitive canoeists/kayaks will be placed in a heat and timed
_____ RECREATIONAL - will not be timed/not competing
Office use only
PARTICIPANTS: CHOOSE YOUR DIVISION
_____ TWO MALE
_____ YOUTH/YOUTH*
_____ MALE KAYAK
_____ TWO FEMALE
_____ ADULT/YOUTH*
_____ FEMALE KAYAK
_____ MALE/FEMALE
*Youths Categories Age 12 to 17. Youths Under Age 12 Not Allowed.
CASH $ _______
CHECK $ _______
#_______
2. CHOOSE A LAUNCH SITE: Rentals are available at Blakely site only.
____ ARCHBALD TO SCRANTON - 12 MILE (experienced paddlers only)
____ BLAKELY TO SCRANTON - 8 MILE
3. Canoe-A-Thon REGISTRATION FEE:
INDIVIDUAL_____ $40
NonMember Rental Fees
CANOE RENTAL
_____ $60
KAYAK RENTAL
_____ $50
TEAM OF 2
Member Rental Fees
CANOE RENTAL
KAYAK RENTAL
_____ $70
_____ $55
_____ $45
CANOE
& KAYAK
RENTAL
DEADLINE
WEDNESDAY
MAY 29
TOTAL Registration & Rental ________________
PA DRIVERS LICENSE NUMBER (for canoe & kayak rentals only):_________________________________________
4. REGISTRATION - PLEASE PRINT CLEARLY!
CAPTAIN _____________________________________
MATE____________________________________________
ADDRESS__________________________________ADDRESS_________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________
PHONE_________________________AGE_______PHONE_______________________________AGE________
E-MAIL____________________________________E-MAIL___________________________________________
5. WAIVER-RELEASE: Read and sign to acknowledge agreement.
I/We hereby acknowledge that participation in the LRCA RiverFest—Canoe-A-Thon will require extreme physical exertion and exposure to
dangerous condition. I/We hereby assume all risk of injury or damage to person or property resulting from or in connection with the use of any of
the facilities, equipment, or premises of the course or associated areas. Specifically, I/We recognize that the race sponsors and organizers have little
control over road, traffic or river conditions. I/We hereby release the LRCA, local municipalities, their agents, officers, employees, representatives
and insurers, and agree to defend, indemnify and hold them harmless of and from all claim, demand, action, or cause of action for injury, damage,
or loss to person or property asserted by or accruing in favor of me. I/We certify that I/We are physically fit and have trained sufficiently for this
event. If I am renting a canoe or kayak, I agree to be held financially responsible for any loss, theft or damage incurred to a rental canoe or
kayak or any company. This release is signed voluntarily and is binding upon the below signed, his/her heirs, executors or assigns.
CAPTAIN SIGNATURE _____________________________________
MATE SIGNATURE ____________________________________
DATE _____________________________________________________
DATE _________________________________________________
PARENTS SIGNATURE IF UNDER 18 YEARS OLD
SIGNATURE ____________________________________SIGNATURE _______________________________________________
DATE __________________________________________DATE _____________________________________________________
By signing this release I acknowledge that I have read the LRCA Canoe-A-Thon rules and agree to abide by them.
MAIL THIS FORM AND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER PAYABLE TO:
LRCA ● P.O. BOX 368 ● SCRANTON, PA ● 18501 ● (570) 347-6311
RF ‘13 “Currents” Canoe Reg.
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Thanks to all Our New and Renewing Member from January, 2012 to December 2012
Pat & Will Acker
John & Pam Addeo
Irwin Adler
Eunice Alexander
Michael Andres
William Antognoli
Lori D. Armbrust
Matthew Armstrong & Cynthia
Zujkowski
Jeanne Atlas
Irving & Edyth Grossman
Foundation
Harry Baldan
Michele & Stan Balon
Andrew J. Baron Jr.
Eugene & Sally Barrett
Tim & Kathleen Barrett
Scranton Sewer Authority
Joseph Barron
Paul & Jessica Bechtel
Edward & Joni Benintende
John Bogdanovicz
Don & Rose Broderick
Rodney D. Brown
Joseph Burinsky
Robert Burke
Terrence & Eileen Burke
Austin & Marianne Burke
William V. Burke
William and Grace Byrne
Patrick Calpin
Sandy Cameli
Cindy Campbell
Barbara L. Carey
Charles & Daurice Castelli
Joe & Donna Cavagnaro
Thomas Cawley
Peter W. Chapla
Walter Checefsky
Ted Chickey
Col. Gene N. Chomko, USA (Ret)
Joseph F. Cimini Esq.
Joan E. Ciotti
Brian Clark
Robert & Jane Clark & Family
Victor & Stacy Cognetti
Mitchell S. Cohen
Mary Judith Colleran
Russell Collins
William & Judith Collins
Dale Collins & Family
Richard P. Conaboy
Bill Conlogue
Jim & Judy Conroy
Paul & Michele Cooper
William Cosgrove
Cosgrove N.E.P.
Norman Coyle
Jim & Kate Crowley
Janet Crowther
Katherine Cullen
Dolores Davis
Robert E. Decker
Dominick DeFazio
Russ & Patti Delaney
Margaret Dermody
Marc Dewaele & Family
Maurya Dillon
Dayle I. Dobroski
Phileshia Dombroski
Hal & Marg Donahue
Eric & Tracey Duffy
Michael Dunio
Bob Durkin
Scott Dustman
Eloise Dwyer
T. Shawn & Jacqueline Earle
Richard & Linda Eckersley
Jim and Ann Elliott
Robert & Beverly Elvidge
Robert Emmi
Carolyn English
John and Patricia Evanchyk
Wayne Evans
Joe & Meg Evans
Ronald J. Fabri
Paul & Rosemarie Fahey
Mary Felley
Patty Ferguson
Bridget Fitzpatrick
Lackawanna College
Edward & Nina Flanagan
Bob & Gretchen Fleese & Ludders
James & Amy Fleming
Sonia Forry
Edward J. Fortuna
Ruth Freidenburg
Christian Fronduti
Jane Frye
John & Marianne Gable
Leonard Gable
Beth Gallagher
Eugene Gallagher
Leonard R. Garner Jr.
Joe & Fran Garvey
David & Regina Garvey
John Paul Gehrens
Natalie Gelb
Lackawanna Heritage Valley
National & State Heritage Area
David Gibson
Elizabeth Gilboy
Marty Gilgallon
Pennsylvania Tectonics, Inc.
Ed Giombetti
John Grabowski
Keystone Propane Service, Inc.
Philip & Kathleen Graff
Joseph Grant
Patricia Green
John Grill
Michael J. Grobosky
Richard & Sandra Guman
Joyce Hatala
Joyce Hatala Associates
David & Ann Hawk
Oren B. Helbok
Douglas Heller
Walter Herrmann
Alan & Cynthia Heyen
Jack Hiddlestone
Joseph P. Holland
Mary Beth Holmes
Ed & Theresa Hughes
Ellie Hyde
Len & Gerry Janus
Kathy Jeffrey
Vance & Melissa M. Jones
Arthur J. Jordan
Tom & Janice Joyce
Kathy Judge
Sue Kashuba
Kevin Kays
Dominic Keating
Bill & Harriet Keim
Gerald Kelly
Lawrence & Judith Kennedy
John & Michelene Kennedy
Michael Kerrigan
Thomas Kilcullen
Michael Klobucar
Mark & Pamela Koberecki
Ed Kocis
Jill Koczwara
Arlene F. Kohl
Andy & Debbie Kohut
Michael J. Korzemba
Chester Kowalski
Paul & Amy Kowalski
Delores Kownaski
Dave & Debra Krewson
John Krisa
Krisa & Krisa, PC
J. Dennis Kryzanowski
Chester & Deilsie Kulesa
Mike & Angela Lambert
Linda & J Llewellyn Miller
Ted & Justine Lengyel
Scott Linde
Linde Corporation
Carol M. Lizell
Marigrace Loftus
Charles and Jean Lohin
Anita & David Lohin
Lorraine Lupini
Jennifer & Paul Macknosky
James & Maryann Mangan
Diane Marinchak
Ralph J. Marino
Ruthann Martin
Leslie & Gretchen Martin
Robert Marx
Mike Matso
Richard Maurer
Robert A. Mazzoni
Janet T. McCabe
Eveline McCloskey
James McDonnell
Guy McGinnis
Patti McGrane
Maureen McGuigan
Bernard McGurl
Tim & Cathy McGurl
Sharon Meagher
Edward Michalski
Teresa Michalski
Elizabeth Milder-Beh
Mike Miller
Thomas & Shirley Misiura
Norma Moreiko
Jack & Gayle Muller
Linda Munley
Frank & Anne Marie Muraca
Shawn Murphy
Richard Murphy
Frank Naughton
Jim & Alice Noone
Maggie O’Brien & Anna Aebli
Patrick & Ann O’Dea
Kathleen Kelly O’Hara
Barbara O’Malley
Helen E. Oravec
Grace Oravec
Priscilla Pancoast
Dennis Panusky
Maggie Parsons
Leni Piasky
John Piepoli
J.T.P. Services, Inc.
Joan Piersimoni
John Pocius
CECO Associates
Patrick & Wendy Poinsot
Joe Polansky
John J. Price
Price Insurance
Jeremy Prostka
John B. Pryle
Bob & Judy Quinlan
Mike Quinlan
Emily & Lee Rancier
Colleen Reardon
Robert & Mary Ellen Reese
Reeves Rent-A-John, Inc
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Ron & Catherine Refice
Carl Reichart & Jason Smith
Margaret Rempe
Jane E Risse
Paulette Robbins
Henry Robinson
Michael Rock
Nancy Ross
James & Gloria Ross
Ross Family Foundation
Michael Roth
Roth & Dempsey, P.C.
Francis P. Ruane
Leah Rudolph
Ron & Christine Ryczak
Mary Ann Savakinus
Lackawanna Historical Society
Robert & Mary Ann Savakinus
Patrick & Dorothy Scanlon
Christine Schaefer
Aynl & Judy Scheatzle
Joan Scheuneman
Dan and Lisa Schreffler
John H. Schultz
Gerald Schwarztrauber
Elsie Schweitzer
William & Mary Scranton
Ernie & Kathleen Searfoss
Ron Semian
Joan Sharpe
John & Shirley Shaw
Timothy Shean
Lackawanna Bicycle Club
James & Barbara Shuta
Edwin Simoncek
Rita Skechus
Peter & Liana Smith
Kenneth Srebro
Srebro Construction
Jude Stambone
Justin Taylor
Jeannie Telech
Thomas & Ann Marie Tell
William & Lorraine Tersteeg
Martin A. Toth
Dan & Karyn Townsend
Barbara Turock
George Wagner
Charles & Ann Walker
Phillip B. Watkins Jr.
Jeff Webb
John J. White III
Roy Whitman & Family
Tracey A. Williams
Arthur Wilson
Alice Witkoski
Megan Wolfe
Maribeth Woody & David Perry
Brooks Wrightnour
Paula K. Yaggi
Sharon Yanik-Craig
William J. Young
Alexandra Younica
A special thank you to everyone who participated in the
fundraising efforts for the
LRCA’s 25th Anniversary
celebratory events of 2012.
The Lackawanna Historical
Society, ArtWorks Studio &
Gallery, Memory Book Ad/
Tribute contributors, the Dinner
Committee and the many
supporters of the LRCA.
THANK YOU!!!
16th Annual
Duck-A-Thon
June 1, 2013
Sponsor
Lackawanna County Arts & Culture
Program Stream Grant
Be a RiverFest 2013 Sponsor
Gold, Silver, Bronze
or Friends of the Lackawanna
Contact the LRCA 570-347-6311 or [email protected]
or www.lrca.org
The LRCA is now affiliated with
Duck $5 each or 8 Ducks for $20!
Grand Prize: $500
Second Prize: $250
Third Prize: $100
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