Links for information about Source Water Protection Coalitions:
- Berks County Source Water Protection Coalition – works as a project of the Berks County Water & Sewer Association
- Central PA Source Water Alliance for Protection (Centre and Clearfield Counties)
- Columbia-Montour Coalition for Source Water Protection
- Delaware River Source Water Collaborative
- ELANCO (Eastern Lancaster County) Source Water Protection Coalition
- Lower Susquehanna Source Water Protection Partnership
- North Central Source Water Protection Alliance (primarily Lycoming County)
- Pocono Source Water Protection Collaborative
- Potomac Drinking Water Source Protection Partnership
- River Alert Information Network (RAIN)
- Schuylkill Action Network (SAN)
- Tioga County Source Water Protection Coalition
- Triple Divide Watershed Coalition
National Source Water Collaborative
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Provides resources and information including a tool to create a customized Drinking Water Protection Brochure in just a few minutes- “Your Water. Your Decision.”
News about Pennsylvania Source Water Protection Coalitions
PA Borough News Magazine – Sept 2012: The River Alert Information Network (RAIN): Making Regional Drinking Water Collaboration Work
2011-2012 WREN Grantee By Ellen Kiley and Julie Kollar
RAIN´s From the River to the Tap: What you can do to Keep it Clean 2011-2012 WREN Project has been busy holding public education events, reaching out to new partners, working on its website (Note: RAIN’s new website will be http://www.rainmatters.org/), and deploying additional water quality monitoring stations in regions where natural gas drilling in the Marcellus shale is active. The River Alert Information Network (RAIN) coalition has made great progress since holding its first public awareness events back in August 2007 with a small amount of seed funding from WREN, promoting the benefits of establishing an early warning spill detection system on the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Youghiogheny rivers.
PA Borough News Magazine – Jan/Feb 2013: The Triple Divide Watershed Coalition: 2012 Winner of PA Governor’s Award for Local Government Excellence
2011-2012 WREN Grantee By Ellen Kiley and Julie Kollar
Weeks after being applauded as a national model for protection of treasured watersheds, the Triple Divide Watershed Coalition based in Potter County, was awarded the prestigious Pennsylvania Governor’s Award for Local Government Excellence in the “Building Community Partnerships” category in April 2012.
Feature Articles by WREN about Pennsylvania Source Water Coalitions:
- Berks County Source Water Protection Coalition -
Water and Sewer Groups Come Together for the Same Goal: Clean Water for Berks County
- Eastern Lancaster County Coalition (ELANCO)-Source Water Protection Plans Key to Protecting Water Supplies from Agricultural Pollution
- Lower Susquehanna River Basin
- River Alert Information Network (RAIN)
- Tioga County
- Triple Divide Watershed Coalition
- Can Public Drinking Water Coalitions Make a Difference? By Jim Clark, Penn State Extension in consultation with Julie Kollar, WREN Project Director, Nov. 2012