The Department of Environmental Protection published notice in the November 18 PA Bulletin inviting individuals and groups to send in relevant water quality information to help evaluate the classification of streams in Chester and Delaware counties.

The streams include Marsh Creek in the East Branch Brandywine Creek in Chester County and a tributary to Whetstone Run in Delaware County.

DEP is doing the evaluation as a result of a rulemaking petition submitted to and approved by the Environmental Quality Board in 2016 by the Darby Creek Valley Association in Chester County and in 2017 by the French and Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust in Delaware County.

Click Here for a copy of the Whetstone Run petition.  Click Here for DEP’s presentation.

Click Here for a copy of the Marsh Creek petition.  Click Here for DEP’s presentation.

Data or questions should be directed to Mark Brickner, Division of Water Quality, Bureau of Clean Water, P.O. Box 8774, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8774, by sending email to: mbrickner@pa.gov or call 717-787-9637.

[Posted: Nov. 17, 2017]

11/20/2017