Early in her watershed management career at the Philadelphia Water Department, Kelly Anderson had to respond to a cyanide-related spill in Wissahickon Creek. More than 1,000 fish died, and one of her assignments was to go out and count them.
The creek flows into the Schuylkill River less than a mile upstream of Philadelphia’s Queen Lane drinking water intake. The utility temporarily closed the intake as a precaution. Anderson says no cyanide was detected in its source water.
Responding to spills is one part of what watershed and source water managers do at drinking water utilities. The rest of the work happens long before an emergency. In Day In The Life, Anderson explains why her team monitors and studies the Wissahickon: knowing what could come downstream helps the utility decide how to respond before it reaches the intake.
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The Day In The Life series is made possible by Platinum sponsor Pentair
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