The Clean Water Bargain: PWD’s Rising Costs
June 6, 2012 | Matthew Fritch
As we wrote in our post explaining what it means to be a “cost of service” utility, PWD doesn’t operate to make a profit.
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In Print: 2012 Drinking Water Quality Report
May 25, 2012 | Matthew Fritch
Around here, the arrival of a new Drinking Water Quality Report is met with the same kind of enthusiasm that more normal people might reserve for, say, a new Hunger Games novel or some unpublished J.D. Salinger manuscripts.
Read More →In The News: Water, Watersheds Everywhere
July 21, 2011 | Matthew Fritch
Roxborough Water Works: A brief history of bringing water to Northwest Phila.
May 19, 2011 | Adam Levine
By the end of the 1850s, it was already apparent to Henry P.M. Birkinbine, chief engineer of the Philadelphia Water Department, that the northwestern section of the city—including Roxborough, Manayunk, and Chestnut Hill—would need to be served by its own water works.
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