Category Archives: Safe Water Partnership

PA Gov. Wolf, Sec. Levine Amend Guidelines On Safe Gathering Limits 10/06/2020 Harrisburg, PA – As Pennsylvanians continue to do their part by adopting healthy behaviors to combat the spread of COVID-19, today Governor Tom Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine amended existing COVID-19 orders to allow for adjusted capacity to gathering limits while […]

9 PA Sportsmen’s, Watershed, Environmental, Mine Reclamation, Conservation Groups Strongly Support Protective Water Quality Standard For Manganese Source:  PA Environmental Digest, 10/5/2020   Nine sportsmen’s, watershed, environmental, mine reclamation and conservation groups submitted comments supporting the proposed Environmental Quality Board regulation setting a more protective water quality standard for manganese and not changing the point […]

AWWA Survey: Legal challenges for water utilities Dear Colleague, AWWA is increasingly hearing from our members about the growing challenges water utilities are encountering as they seek to meet their increasingly diverse legal services needs. To enable AWWA to develop and provide resources that can better address these needs, we are asking water utility senior […]

PA DEP Expands Drought Warning to 3 Counties and Drought Watch to 29 Counties Harrisburg, PA – After a meeting of the Commonwealth Drought Task Force, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) today moved Clinton and McKean counties to drought warning and added 13 counties to drought watch. There are now three counties on drought […]

PA DEP Sets Third Round Of Virtual Meetings For State Water Plan Regional Advisory Committees In October http://www.paenvironmentdigest.com/newsletter/default.asp?NewsletterArticleID=51132&SubjectID=   DEP Sets Third Round Of Virtual Meetings For State Water Plan Regional Advisory Committees In October   The Department of Environmental Protection will hold the third round of virtual meetings for the Statewide Water Resources and Regional […]