The current of collaboration has finally spilled into the banks of two Chester County watershed conservation agencies that have worked alongside each other for more than 60 years.

The Red Clay Valley Association and the Brandywine Valley Association officially merged last week into the new Brandywine-Red Clay Alliance in order to streamline their work to clean up the local creeks.

“It’s now a new era of watershed conservation,” President James P. Nolan said in a Daily Local News report.

Through the merger, the organizations are pooling their resources and converging their water quality improvement goals to “have a greater impact and face challenges of the future,” the article explained.

Some of the Alliance’s recent work has focused on stream stabilization and pollution prevention, including projects at the Kennett Square Golf and Country Club and north of Kennett Square’s Anson B. Nixon Park, with two additional projects coming this fall at area dairy farms.

Read more about the watershed merger and the years-long process to make it happen in the Daily Local News here.