Workshop to train private well owners
Residents of Tioga and surrounding counties will be offered a training workshop on how to properly manage their home wells, springs, or cisterns. Residents who rely on private water systems for home drinking water can be at risk of drinking contaminated water. Resource professionals such as Penn State Cooperative Extension, the Pennsylvania Ground Water Association,… Read more
Well water users will get financial aid
Seminars will provide low interest loan information to rural households. Rural household owners using well water – pull out your calendars and red pens. Four seminars are planned to introduce a Household Water Well Assistance Program. The Pocono Northeast Resource Conservation and Development Council, a nonprofit organization, has acquired $130,000 in grant money and will… Read more
EOH Research Seminar: “Polycythemia Vera”
Research Seminar Series of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health “Lessons learned from studying a cluster of Polycythemia Vera in Northeast Pennsylvania” Paul I. Roda, MD, FACP Geisinger/Hazleton Cancer Center Location: New College Building, 8th Floor, Hem/Onc Conference Room, 245 N. 15th Street (Joint presentation with Drexel University College of Medicine) Date: Tuesday, April… Read more