This is from a PG article: Three weeks before the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority was ordered to tell 100,000 Pittsburghers to boil their water, the state Department of Environmental Protection found that the authority made changes to its water treatment chemicals without approval from the state. It was the second time in three years that unauthorized changes to treatment chemicals landed the PWSA in hot water. More bad news for the embattled authority could come as early as this morning, when Pittsburgh Controller Michael Lamb, accompanied by Pennsylvania Auditor General Eugene DePasquale, will release a performance audit of the region’s largest water supplier. According to the DEP, on Jan. 6, state inspectors at the PWSA’s main treatment plant along the Allegheny River in Aspinwall found the facility was using ferric chloride and caustic soda as coagulating agents in place of lime because the lime feed equipment was not operational. The permit violation was noted in a DEP “field order” issued the same day and in a report dated Feb. 8 and sent to Bernard Lindstrom, the PWSA executive director. http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2017/02/16/Before-boil-orders-DEP-fin... <http://www.post-gazette.com/local/city/2017/02/16/Before-boil-orders-DEP-finds-PWSA-unauthorized-water-treatment-chemicals-use-and-audit-release/stories/201702160116> PSWA may seek to find a way to paint the issue as reservoir-based, but now, several news stories have linked problems to management and management decisions. -- Thomas Waters thomaswaters@mac.com <mailto:thomaswaters@mac.com> about.me/tcwaters <http://about.me/tcwaters> thomascwaters.com <http://thomascwaters.com/> 2012 Beacons of Equality Award Winner; 2015 Best of the Burghosphere Award Winner!

On Feb 16, 2017, at 9:40 AM, Helen Blier <pacem1@gmail.com> wrote:

Neighbors - I moved to the area 15+y ago just after the HPCC helped lobby for preservation of the open reservoir. How much traction does the proposed action in the article have? And what will our neighborhood be able to do about it?

http://triblive.com/local/allegheny/11949753-74/pwsa-reservoir-highland <http://triblive.com/local/allegheny/11949753-74/pwsa-reservoir-highland>

Helen