Allegheny Mountain Chapter of Trout Unlimited

For several years now, AMCTU has championed habitat improvements in the Sandy Lick Creek flood control in downtown DuBois. It took a long time to get the US Army Corps of Engineers (who has jurisdiction over the flood control) to agree, but thanks to the efforts of the City of DuBois, Jason Reed of Stahl Sheaffer, and Mark Killar of the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, the project is beginning to move forward. The City of DuBois recently completed a bank stabilization and added a J-hook structure just upstream of the Brady Street (US Route 219) Bridge.

This is just the first step of the project. Stay tuned for more updates and ways you can be involved in this work. This is a great and rare example of using habitat structures in a flood control that helps to both improve the fishing and maintain the flood control function.