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August Water Resources Regional
Committee Meetings
Scheduled Throughout
Commonwealth |
| The Department of Environmental Protection is continuing
its series of regional water resource committee meetings in each of
Pennsylvania’s six major river basins—Great Lakes, Delaware, Lower
Susquehanna, Ohio, Potomac and Upper/Middle Susquehanna. Public
participation is key to developing a plan to make the state a leader in
water resource management and conservation. “The regional committees
represent Pennsylvania’s geographic diversity and will help to facilitate
the development of the regional components of the State Water Plan and
critical area resource plans,” DEP Deputy Secretary for Watershed Management
Cathleen Curran Myers said. “The input provided by these individuals as well
as each public participant will ensure our State Water Plan reflects both
regional and statewide needs.”
Meeting times, dates and locations scheduled for August include:
 | Delaware Committee – 9:30 a.m., Aug. 13 at the Delaware Valley
Regional Planning Commission, Bourse Building, 111 S. Independence Mall
East, 8th Floor, Philadelphia. |
| Great Lakes Committee – 10 a.m., Aug. 10 at the First Citizens
National Bank, Social Room, 502 Main St., Ulysses, Potter County. |
| Lower Susquehanna – 9:30 a.m., Aug. 2 at DEP’s Southcentral Regional
Office, 909 Elmerton Ave., Harrisburg, Dauphin County. |
| Ohio Committee – 10 a.m., Aug. 9 at the Cambria County Conservation
District, 401 Candlelight Dr., Suite 221, Ebensburg, Cambria County. |
| Potomac Committee – 10 a.m., Aug. 20, 2004 at the Adams County
Conservation District, 670 Old Harrisburg Road, Suite 201, Gettysburg,
Adams County. |
| Upper/Middle Susquehanna Committee – 10 a.m., Aug. 19 at DEP’s
Northeast Regional Office, Public Square, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County. |
The schedules and an agenda for each meeting, including meeting
materials, will be available through the Public Participation Center on
Department of Environmental Protection’s Web site at
http://www.dep.state.pa.us,
Keyword: “Participate.”
The Water Resources Act requires DEP to develop a new State Water Plan
over the next several years working with both regional and a statewide
committee whose membership includes a broad representation of business and
industry, agriculture, local government and environmental interests. Through
an open public process, in consultation with a statewide committee and DEP,
regional committees will recommend the regional plan components to the
statewide committee for incorporation into the State Water Plan.
The State Water Plan will be designed to provide up-to-date information
on water availability, an assessment and projection of water use and future
demands on a watershed basis, identification of critical water planning
areas where water demands are projected to exceed available water supplies,
and the development of critical area resource plans for these areas.
For more information on water resources, visit DEP’s website at
www.dep.state.pa.us, Keyword: “DEP
Water Management,” or by calling the Act 220 Hotline at 888-457-6653.
To see a map of the six major
river basins in Pennsylvania, click this link. |
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