Bryan Swistock, a Water Resources Specialist with Penn State Extension in the Department of Ecosystem Science and Management will present a 60-minute webinar on December 18 from noon to 1 p.m.

The webinar will provide an update on similar webinars that have been presented over the past five years. The webinar will initially cover basic private water system management strategies before discussing specific topics related to natural gas drilling.

Most of the webinar will be devoted to discussing updated regulations to protect groundwater supplies during drilling along with chain-of-custody water testing, and a summary of some recent research related to both baseline and post-drilling water quality in groundwater supplies near gas drilling sites.   

This webinar is accessible at this webpage. You can access this webinar simply by signing in as a "guest." Taped versions of each webinar in the series are available online as well.

If you have not registered for past water webinars, please visit this webpage to register so we can keep you updated about future webinar offerings.

(Reprinted from the Watershed Winds newsletter published by Penn State Extension.)

12/17/2012