The Lancaster County Clean Water Consortium will hold three educational seminars about clean water this fall for local officials in Lancaster County. The seminars will connect the dots between protecting our communities' drinking water, cleaning up our local streams and saving the Chesapeake Bay.

-- September 13-- Clean Water 101. It will focus on the current state of waters in Lancaster County and where we need to be, the basics of clean water standards, how streams are assessed, the total maximum daily loads our streams can endure and survive or not survive, and goals for returning our streams to a healthy status. 

-- October 11-- Clean Water 201 will include peer reviews. Local officials will have the opportunity to review the progress they are making on clean water projects in their municipalities and exchange their plans with each other. This seminar will promote a sharing of information between the officials.

-- November 8-- Clean Water 301 will be held on and will present answers on how to start a Source Water Protection program in a municipality. Municipalities have the resources and manpower to help, so officials should take advantage of this opportunity.

All seminars will be from 9 a.m. to noon and will be held at the Farm and Home Center, 1383 Arcadia Road, Lancaster, PA. This event is free.   More information and registration information will follow.   

The workshops are a collaboration with the Lancaster Intermunicipal Committee, Water Resources Education Network - a project of the League of Women Voters of PA Citizen Education Fund, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, the Department of Environmental Protection, the Lower Susquehanna Initiative, the Pennsylvania Rural Water Association, the Lancaster County Conservation District and the Lancaster County Planning Commission.

More details will be posted on the Lancaster County Clean Water Consortium website.

7/16/2012