Our Green City, Clean Waters program celebrates nine years in June. Here are some highlights from 2019.
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Today’s Flashback Friday post takes a quick trip back to the summer, but also links to a much older tradition: we’re in the final week of the 120th #ChristmasBirdCount!
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Artists and students in two neighborhoods partnered to make cans that will help keep litter out of local waterways.
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A sort of campus that serves as a state-of-the-art training and operations hub for the City’s sewer infrastructure workforce, the project cost approximately $17 million to build.
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Call us crazy, but we think we can help beat the 18,000+ pounds collected by volunteers during last year’s big Darby-Cobbs Creek Cleanup. We’ll be leading one of the 38 sites targeting 126 miles of streams on Saturday, April 13th.
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Since a big part of our mission at the Philadelphia Water Department includes protecting and advocating for our rivers and streams—our drinking water sources—Earth Day is a natural fit for us.
Earth Day 2017 will be celebrated this Saturday, April 22, and we’ll be there for one of Philly’s biggest green events…
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Our first volunteer cleanup of 2017 with United By Blue had a great turnout—and even got an honorary “Best Field Trip Ever” designation from one of the dozens of students who attended…
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Residents are invited to join staff from Philadelphia Water and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the Cobbs Creek Environmental Education Center tomorrow at 6 p.m. to learn about an exciting new project that will open up miles of the Cobbs to fish like the blueback herring, a historically important migratory species whose habitat has been limited by dams across the region.
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Francis Myers Recreation Center is a big, beautiful Philadelphia Parks and Recreation site in Southwest Philly.
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Extreme cold can cause pipes in the ground to expand and contract, and very cold river water can also make water mains more brittle.
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