PWD Director of Laboratory Services to EPA: Update Drinking Water Standards!
January 23, 2015
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Public Affairs
One of those is Gary Burlingame, our Director of the Bureau of Laboratory Services. Gary oversees a staff of 120 people and an annual budget exceeding $10 million focused on drinking water, source water, wastewater, sediment, sludge, and more. He is a thought leader in the industry, widely published on the topic of the sensory aspects of drinking water—what you see, taste and smell in your water—h
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The Land is Ours!
November 19, 2013
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Public Affairs
For the last fifteen years, neighbors cleaned and protected the remaining 6 acres of the Anderson and Woodbrook land not yet touched by development in the Wissahickon. After learning that developers were seeking to build a condominium complex of over twenty five 1,200 square foot houses, neighbors campaigned to save the land.
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A Shad State of Affairs
May 3, 2012
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Matthew Fritch
As the peak of the shad spawning season arrives, WHYY’s NewsWorks has a very informative article (and great photos) about the Fairmount fish ladder, including interviews with PWD aquatic biologists Lance Butler and Joe Perillo.
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This Place Is BMPing: Saylor Grove
January 6, 2012
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Matt Fritch, Environmental Engineer
Before the Philadelphia Water Department constructed a stormwater wetland at Saylor Grove in Fairmount Park, the area received an excessive amount of runoff that drained into Monoshone Creek, a tributary to the Wissahickon, resulting in erosion of the Monoshone and impaired water quality.
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Our Heroes: Awards For Cobbs Creek Protectors
August 11, 2011
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Matthew Fritch
Yesterday, the 10 Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Education Center interns who discovered and investigated a fish kill in Cobbs Creek (see our previous post) were presented with Watershed Hero Awards by the Philadelphia Water Department.
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Tacony Creek Stream Clean-Up
July 27, 2011
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Matthew Fritch
Come out to Tacony Creek Park on Friday, July 29 and be part of a clean-up crew that includes the Philadelphia Water Department, Parks & Recreation and the Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership.
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Pottsville Says: No Dumping!
July 20, 2011
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Matthew Fritch
Beginning next week, storm drains in Pottsville—approximately 120 river miles upstream of Philadelphia—will be marked with the “No Dumping! Drains To River”
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Required Reading: A Vision For The Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed
July 14, 2011
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Matthew Fritch
The Tookany/Tacony-Frankford Watershed Partnership has just released the final version of its plan for the restoration, revitalization and future health of the watershed.
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Go Fish: American Shad Spotted In Schuylkill Above Norristown For The First Time In Almost 200 Years
July 1, 2011
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Brian Rademaekers
While the shad sighting just below Black Rock Dam (see map above) is a measure of success for the fishways, PWD biologist Lance Butler also notes that “the resurgence of shad is an indicator or returning ecology to Schuylkill.”
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What’s An Estuary Worth? About $10 Billion/Yr
June 17, 2011
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Matthew Fritch
A recent study by the University of Delaware puts a price tag on the economic value of the Delaware Estuary—the tidal portion of the Delaware River Basin—and the number is big.
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