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AWWA QTC97040

  • Steps in Initiating a Watershed Management Program: One Utility's Experience
  • Conference Proceeding by American Water Works Association, 01/01/1997
  • Publisher: AWWA

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North Penn Water Authority (NPWA) is a large water utility that serves about 80,000 people in southeastern Pennsylvania. Seventy percent of the water that NPWA delivers to its customers is supplied by the Forest Park Treatment Plant. Lake Galena, a 365 acre impoundment, serves as the reservoir for the treatment plant. Lake Galena was created in 1974 with the damming of the North Branch Neshaminy Creek (NBNC). The Lake Galena Watershed drains about 10,000 acres of primarily agricultural land and is surrounded by a public park. Sedimentation and nutrient loading are gradually reducing the storage capacity of the lake and a growing population within the watershed is raising water quality concerns. To address these issues, the NPWA proposed a watershed management program which included weekly monitoring of the NBNC above and below Lake Galena to establish baseline data on water quality parameters and identify sources of contamination, and an environmental education program. This paper discusses these aspects of NPWA's watershed management program.

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