Water resources in Lancaster County summarized in study
Lancaster County planning report details water sources Conoy Chickies Conestoga Pequea and Conowingo creeks. It lists withdrawals plants towns and effluent discharges and notes irrigation use and municipal supplies. Summary previews continued data on page 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Itville
Grubb Lake
Chickies
Mountville
Raybestos
Manheim
Conestoga Creek
Lancaster County
Neipality Creek
Pequea Valley
Quarryville
Conowingo Creek
Providence Township
Pennsylvania
Chester Municipal Authority
Chester
Octoraro Water Co
Chester County
Christiana
Bart-Colerain
County Streams Overloaded Warn Of Looming Water Shortage
A 1979 Lancaster County study projects population and per capita water demand doubling and tripling by 2010, totaling six times current needs. Surface streams appear unreliable, wells and springs adequate only until about 1985. Conewago Creek forms part of the Lancaster Dauphin boundary in its final stretch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabethtown
Conoy
Klein Chocolate Co
Klein Co
Elizabethtown Water Co
Chickies Creek
Furnace Bulls
Lebanon County
Manheim
Susquehanna River
Mount
Lancaster County
Conewago
Coney
Chickies
Conestoga
Pequea
Conowingo
Furnace Hills
Falmouth
Lancaster
Dauphin Counties
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Don Timmons
America
Ning Commission
Lancaster Farming
Part I
Longenecker
J. B. Hostetter & Son
Mount Joy
I. B. Graybill & Son Reston
Musser’s Store & Mill
The
Buck
Wilhelm Howe
Myerstown
Trimble Howe
Lititz, Pa
Galen Howe
Lincoln, Pa
Lititz Pet Shop
Eby’s Mill, Inc
David H. Laub Co
S. Jefferson St
Allentown
Maynard L. Beitzel
Witmer, Pa
Dairy
Wirthmore
Heisey Farm Service
Lawn and
Bellaire
Paradise Supply
Allis-Chalmers
L. H. Brubaker
Chet Long
Akron
N. G. Myers & Son Rheems
Nissley Farm Service
Washington Kore
Grumelli Farm Service
Quarryville, Pa
Allen H. Matz
New Holland