Protecting Your Drinking Water

The Penn State Cooperative Extension hosted two forums last week on testing a private drinking water supply.
During the June 9 forum in Wayne County, 230 people attended, and 98 returned water samples for testing the next day, said Dave Messersmith, extension education of the Penn State Cooperative Extension of Wayne County. Thirty attendees of the Montrose program June 10 returned samples, he said.
Bryan Swistock, water resources extension associate with Penn State University, recommends regular water testing for all homeowners. To obtain a water test kit from the Penn State’s Agricultural Analytical Services Laboratory, visit http://www.aasl.psu.edu/.
The United States Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library, has as on-line Water Quality Information Center. Visit http://www.nal.usda.gov/wqic/water_quality.shtml.