Healthy Drinking Water and Healthy Homes – Communicating to the Public What is a Drinking Water Advisory? DO NOT PANIC ! What are Drinking Water Advisories and What Should You Do ? Drinking water advisories let customers know that their tap water or drinking water could be contaminated and make them sick. There are no… Read more
Welcome to Pennsylvania and Welcome to Managing Your Own Small Water Company In Pennsylvania, there are generally no specific construction standards for private wells and there is only some general guidance with respect to well placement and construction. Further, private well water is not regulated by the EPA or PADEP and therefore it is up… Read more
www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-05/D9USIMM83.htm BY KEVIN BEGOS May 20, 2012 Some people are absolutely sure gas drilling threatens public health, while others are absolutely sure it doesn’t. Geisinger Health Systems is looking for more facts on the debate. “Our concern is getting reliable data so we know what to do for our patients,” said David Carey, director of… Read more
www.timesleader.com/stories/Residents-Pa-health-dept-lacks-in-investigating-claims-of-illness,149927 By KEVIN BEGOS May 13, 2012 Inquiry finds several other shortcomings by agency concerning gas drilling. PITTSBURGH — The Pennsylvania Department of Health says it investigates every claim by residents that gas drilling has caused health problems, but several people say the agency’s actions don’t match its words. Two western Pennsylvania residents told The… Read more
http://www.tnonline.com/2011/aug/19/rare-blood-disease-mix Friday, August 19, 2011 By DONALD R. SERFASS dserfass@tnonline.com Is it possible that some folks diagnosed with a blood disease involving a build-up of iron might actually be suffering from a rarer blood disease found in unusual clusters in Carbon, Schuylkill and Luzerne counties? The condition of iron build up in the blood is… Read more
http://www.tnonline.com/2011/jul/20/costly-delay By LIZ PINKEY TN Correspondent tneditor@tnonline.com Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Members of Tamaqua’s Borough Council got an earful last night from several citizens who are unhappy about the fact that they are responsible for footing the bill to connect to the sanitary sewer, after years of illegally, and in most cases, unknowingly, discharging waste… Read more
http://www.mcall.com/news/nationworld/pennsylvania/mc-pa-cancer-cluster-legislation-20110710,0,6315339.story By Andrew McGill, Of The Morning Call 9:57 p.m. EDT, July 10, 2011 Some fear measure, which would create ‘first-responder’ task force, may not be genuine effort to protect public health in Carbon, Schuylkill, Luzerne counties. Merle Wertman has been kept waiting a long time. Eight years ago, doctors diagnosed him with polycythemia vera,… Read more
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/mc-tamaqua-cancer-cluster-20110618,0,2997474.story By Andrew McGill, OF THE MORNING CALL 10:35 p.m. EDT, June 18, 2011 Researchers studying a cancer cluster say they’re still mastering the basics in an investigation that’s stretched five years. Five years have passed since federal researchers first came to Pennsylvania’s coal region seeking the origins of a mysterious disease. And while numerous… Read more
http://www.timesleader.com/news/Drilling_areas_cause_for_concern_06-17-2011.html Posted: June 18, 2011 Health matters Pa. wants to create registry to track illnesses in fracking communities HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Corbett’s top health adviser said Friday that he wants to make Pennsylvania the first state to create a registry to track illnesses in communities near heavy drilling in the Marcellus Shale natural gas… Read more
http://www.tnonline.com/2011/jun/16/what-polycythemia-vera Thursday, June 16, 2011 By DONALD R. SERFASS dserfass@tnonline.com Polycythemia vera (PV) is a blood disease in which the bone marrow makes too many red blood cells, causing the thickening of blood. PV usually takes years to develop. Most people are diagnosed with PV later in life, most often around age 60 or older.… Read more
