Staff from DEP's Southwest Regional Office hosted more than 30 local elected officials from Somerset, Indiana and Cambria counties on July 17. 

The Elected Officials Updates are designed reach local officials and offer information and discussion about various DEP programs and initiatives.

The updates are being held quarterly so that each county in the region can be represented.  DEP staff target issues that are shared by each county invited to the sessions.  For the July 17 session, DEP staff focused on water questions. 

Representatives from DEP's regional Safe Drinking Water and Clean Water programs answered questions from the officials and introduced new regional Oil and Gas Program Manager Eric Gustafson to the group.

The next Elected Officials Update is scheduled for October.

(Reprinted from the July 24 DEP News.  Click Here to sign up to receive your own copy and for back issues.)

7/28/2014