The News Review:

- PA DEP Continues to Analyze Dimock Water Supplies
- New water releases to help power drinking water
- Water Sources Slow The Flow For Tampa
- New Plan utlines Statewide Regional Priorities to Balance …

PA DEP Continues to Analyze Dimock Water Supplies
FXBusiness
Cabot is providing those homes with alternative water supplies and is monitoring natural gas levels. To date no indoor vapor problems have been encountered. Additionally the company has installed a treatment system at another home where the department concluded the water supply was impacted by drilling activities. DEP is inspecting existing wells in the area and monitoring new drilling activity. The department continues to schedule residential visits to take water samples and monitor for gas. “As Cabot implements its remedial actions DEP will continue to sample home wells to determine if the company’s activities are reducing the dissolved methane levels there” Bedrin said. “This procedure is time consuming and laborious but it is a necessary process for us to get this problem solved.

New water releases to help power drinking water
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Friday Johnston said. The flow should be enough to bring the river’s level back up to the intake pipes at Washburn’s water treatment plant he said. The increased water supply also should help the Stanton and Leland lds electric power plants resume their operations Johnston said. Stanton which is owned by Great River Energy and the Leland lds plant owned by Basin Electric Power Cooperative shut down Thursday because they could no longer draw the river water they needed. Both plants are in Mercer County in west-central North Dakota. Great River spokesman Lyndon Anderson said the Stanton plant which can generate 188 megawatts of power should be fully operational late Saturday.
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Water Sources Slow The Flow For Tampa
Tampa Tribune
Everyone else in the Bay area meanwhile will be allowed to turn on their sprinklers once a week. Their lawns may struggle and shrivel but likely will survive until the summer rains. So why did the Tampa City Council impose what may be a death sentence for many lawns?The simple answer: Tampa’s water supply is different. In Hillsborough Pinellas and Pasco counties St. Petersburg and New Port Richey customers supplied by Tampa Bay Water get a mixture of desalinated water and groundwater. The regional utility uses a network of pipelines that means water can flow from the desalination plant in Apollo Beach into faucets in Pinellas. The city leans on the Hillsborough River for its water capturing the flow in a reservoir about 10 miles from the river’s mouth.

New Plan utlines Statewide Regional Priorities to Balance …
FXBusiness
Hanger was joined by representatives of the regional and statewide committees that created the plan following five years of public meetings throughout the state. “The state water plan represents years of exhaustive and difficult work and provides Pennsylvanians with a vision goals and recommendations for meeting the challenges of sustainable water use over the next 15 years” Hanger said. “Each region came to the table with its own priorities — protecting drinking water supplies creating jobs avoiding devastating floods reducing mine drainage and ensuring well thought out plans for how to use the land–but the statewide committee was able to craft a document that takes into account these many conflicting priorities and demands. The updated state water plan — the first since 1983 — was required under Act 220 of 2002 that created a Statewide Water Resource Committee and six regional water resource committees tasked with compiling and reviewing water-use data taking public comment identifying where existing and potential water-use conflicts and water quality issues may occur and creating recommendations for the state water plan. The plan consists of inventories of water availability an assessment of current and future water demands and trends assessments of resource management alternatives and proposed methods of implementing recommended actions. It also analyzes problems and needs associated with specific water resource usage such as navigation stormwater management and flood control. Key components of the state water plan include: — An innovative Water Use Analysis Tool to determine where water demands may exceed available water supply.