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Slate Belt residents shed light on why they’re opposed to plan for 130-acre solar farm
Updated Jan 24, 2021;
Posted Jan 24, 2021
A proposed 130-acres solar farm in Lower Mount Bethel Township would be almost double the size of the 66-acre solar farm seen here at the DSM facility in Belvidere.John Best | lehighvalleylive.com contributor
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After several months of arguments for and against a proposed 130-acre solar array project in Lower Mount Bethel Township, a decision may be coming next month.
Lower Mount Bethel Township’s Zoning Hearing Board is conducting a hearing regarding an appeal from Glidepath Ventures, which now does business as Prospect14. The company filed an application in July to build a 61,000-panel solar array project on Gravel Hill Road.
Conservancy steps in to restore stream eroding Northampton County farmland
Updated Dec 21, 2020;
Posted Dec 21, 2020
An eroded stream bank along Oughoughton Creek in the Slate Belt is seen before a restoration project led by Wildlands Conservancy.Courtesy photo | For lehighvalleylive.com
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A Delaware River tributary running through Slate Belt communities is healthier, and the surrounding farmland is better off, thanks to a restoration project led by Wildlands Conservancy.
The conservancy based outside Emmaus this week announced the completion of a $475,000 restoration on a nearly one-mile stretch of Oughoughton Creek.
Winding through Upper Mount Bethel and Washington townships before emptying into the Delaware in Lower Mount Bethel Township at the Martins Creek Boat Access, Oughoughton Creek was eroding farmlands directly adjacent to the water’s edge where the soil is composed of highly erodible cobble and loose boulders called glacial till, according to Wildl