DEP Sets Virtual Regional State Water Plan Update Hearings For March 11

The Department of Environmental Protection is inviting public comment on Regional Water Resource components to the proposed update to the State Water Plan in six virtual regional public hearings.  (formal notice)

The hearings will be held virtually an in-person in Room 105 of the Rachel Carson Building on March 11--

-- Delaware Water Resources Regional Committee - 9:00 to 10:00 a.m.

-- Lower Susquehanna Water Resources Regional Committee - 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.

-- Potomac Water Resources Regional Committee - 11:00 to Noon

-- Ohio Water Resources Regional Committee - 1:00 to 2:00 p.m.

-- Great Lakes Water Resources Regional Committee - 2:00 to 3:00 p.m.

-- Upper/Middle Susquehanna Water Resources Regional Committee - 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Click Here to find options for joining the hearings remotely.

Persons wishing to present testimony at a hearing must contact James Horton at (717) 783-2285 or RA-StateWaterPlan@pa.gov  at least 24 hours in advance of the hearing to reserve a time to present testimony. 

Language interpretation services are available upon request. Persons in need of language interpretation services must contact James Horton by 5 p.m. on March 3, 2022.

The Plan update, required every five years by Act 220 of 2002, serves as a policy and guidance document providing information, objectives, priorities and recommendations to be considered in a broad range of state, local and private water resource decisions.

Another goal of the Plan update is to review and finalize Critical Area Resource Plans in the Potomac and Ohio regions that were left unfinished during the 2009 update.

This is the ninth round of meetings and hearings on the State Water Plan Update.

For more information, visit DEP’s State Water Plan Advisory Committees webpage.

[Posted: February 25, 2022]  PA Environment Digest