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The deputy secretary for Water Management plans, directs, and coordinates departmental programs associated with the management and protection of the commonwealth's water resources; coordinates policies, procedures, and regulations that influence public water supply withdrawals and quality, sewage facilities planning, point source municipal and ...
Pennsylvania Governor’s Commission on Children & Families; Pennsylvania Governor's Advisory Commission on African American Affairs; Pennsylvania Governor's Advisory Commission on Asian American Affairs; Pennsylvania Governor's Advisory Commission on Latino Affairs; Pennsylvania Governor's Advisory Council for Hunting, Fishing & Conservation
Water extraction (also known as water withdrawal, water abstraction, and water intake) is the process of taking water from any source, either temporarily or permanently, for flood control or to obtain water for, for example, irrigation. [1] [2] The extracted water could also be used as drinking water after suitable treatment.
In 2017, Pennsylvania American Water, our state's largest owner and operator of water and wastewater systems, acquired a municipal-run sewer system in McKeesport in Allegheny County.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Pennsylvania. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3 ), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3 ).
Capital Region Water (formerly known as Harrisburg Authority) is a municipal authority providing drinking water, wastewater and stormwater services in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. [ 1 ] References
Prices paid for water itself are different from water tariffs. They exist in a few countries and are called water abstraction charges or fees. Abstraction charges are not covered in this article, but in the article on water pricing). Water tariffs vary widely in their structure and level between countries, cities and sometimes between user ...
Lake Scranton is an American reservoir that is located in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, It has a 3.5-mile (5.6 km) running track which surrounds it. [ 1 ] It is owned by the Pennsylvania American Water Company, which supplies the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania with drinking water.