Drought takes toll on Lehigh Valley streams. Is emergency pending?

The Department of Environmental Protection declared a drought warning Nov. 3 in Lehigh, Northampton, Monroe and Carbon counties. Since then the dry weather has persisted, and groundwater and surface water indicators have taken a turn for the worse.

Andrew WagamanContact ReporterOf The Morning Call

Two puddles of water were all that remained last week in an area of the Little Lehigh Creek designated for fly

Little Lehigh C&RFFO...Now with wading.

The PFBC has removed the no wading restriction at the former Heritage Trout Angling along Fish Hatchery Road.

As of January 1, 2011 the wading restrictions at Section 8 of the Little Lehigh Creek in Lehigh County have been lifted, permitting anglers to wade this section of stream.

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