LeakBird

(Jan. 5, 2009, PhillyBurbs)

Each day Montgomery County residents and workers use as much water as the daily flow of the Perkiomen Creek.

Seventeen large public water suppliers (10 authorities, four privately owned companies and three municipal water departments) supply 254,000 domestic, commercial, industrial and institutional customers.

These customers use more than 152 million gallons of water each day, according to county planner Drew Shaw…

Trying to find a way to make that number real to people, Shaw determined it is the equivalent of the amount of water that flows each day through the Perkiomen Creek from the northwestern section of the county to the Schuylkill River. The groundwater, which makes up 28 percent of the public water supply, primarily comes from 154 public wells plus some springs and quarries.

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