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title: Clearfield Creek Watershed Association (CCWA)
description: "**Summary:** The Clearfield Creek Watershed Association (CCWA) is an all-volunteer organization founded in 2001, working to improve and protect the streams of the Clearfield Creek watershed in Cambria County -- a watershed with a significant coal mining legacy and active…"
url: "https://aml-connect.org/aml-knowledge-base/clearfield-creek-watershed-association/"
updated: "2026-03-17"
category: AML Network
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# Clearfield Creek Watershed Association (CCWA)

**Summary:** The Clearfield Creek Watershed Association (CCWA) is an all-volunteer organization founded in 2001, working to improve and protect the streams of the Clearfield Creek watershed in Cambria County -- a watershed with a significant coal mining legacy and active AMD restoration work. CCWA represents the grassroots practitioner model at the heart of the PA AML network: community volunteers sustaining long-term restoration work in a place that needs it.

## Role in the PA AML Network

Clearfield Creek runs through a corridor of Cambria County heavily mined for clay and coal over the past century. CCWA has evaluated approximately 100 streams in the watershed, constructed AMD treatment systems, and organized clean-up events over more than two decades of sustained volunteer work. The association received a $528,000 Growing Greener grant to support AMD restoration projects -- a significant investment in a volunteer-led organization that demonstrates the leveraging power of community-based watershed groups.

CCWA's inclusion in AML-Connect's Tier 1 network reflects its role as a model for what sustained grassroots AMD restoration looks like: a small, all-volunteer organization with decades of continuity, real treatment systems in the ground, and deep local knowledge of a heavily mined watershed.

## What CCWA Does

- AMD restoration projects on Clearfield Creek tributaries including Little Laurel Run and Morgan Run
- Stream assessments across the Clearfield Creek watershed
- Construction and monitoring of AMD treatment systems
- Volunteer clean-up events and community engagement
- Youth fishing derby and environmental education programs

## How to Connect

Website: [http://www.clearfieldcreekwatershed.org/](http://www.clearfieldcreekwatershed.org/)
Facebook: @ClearfieldCreekWatershed
Location: Ashville, PA (Cambria County)

## Related Pages

- [About the AML Network](https://aml-connect.org/aml-knowledge-base/about-the-aml-network/)
- [O&M Hub](https://aml-connect.org/aml-knowledge-base/om-hub/)
- [Where to Get Help](https://aml-connect.org/aml-knowledge-base/where-to-get-help/)
- [Organize a Watershed Partnership](https://aml-connect.org/aml-knowledge-base/organize-a-watershed-partnership/) (Organizational Development)

**Source and Last Reviewed:** clearfieldcreekwatershed.org; ZoomInfo nonprofit profile; tributedem.com (Growing Greener grant coverage). Last reviewed: 2026-03.

**Tags:** practitioner, amd, aml, monitoring, pa, watershed-name