Meters required for all wells

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Meters required for all wells in Nesquehoning, PA

Reported on Thursday, August 26, 2010
By CAROL ZICKLER TN Correspondent tneditor@tnonline.com

“Tom Merman asked David Hawk, who serves as the borough’s Water Authority chairman, about putting meters on all of the wells in town that don’t have meters on them. Hawk answered that it is up to council as to whether they want to enforce the ordinance. There is an ordinance that all wells have meters attached. Later in the meeting it was discussed that each homeowner who does not have a meter must get one and have it installed. They will have 30 days from time of accepting the meter to have it installed.”

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2 Responses to “Meters required for all wells”
  1. Frank says:
    August 27, 2010 at 2:08 pm

    The Groundwater Guardians contacted Jerry Pillus, DEP Sanitarian Supervisor for the Pottsville district (717-621-3118) and asked him if a town could mandate putting meters on private wells and he said he never heard of such a thing. He went on to say that private wells in Pennsylvania are unregulated with the exception that they must be 100 feet or more from a septic system.

  2. Brian says:
    August 29, 2010 at 5:03 pm

    This action is not appropirate – I do not believe the local agency has this right.