Wednesday, November 19, 2008

City of the Day - Erie, PA

Erie is an industrial city on the shore of Lake Erie in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Named for the lake and the Native American tribe that resided along its southern shore, Erie is the state's fourth largest city (after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Allentown), with a population of 104,000. Erie's Metropolitan Area consists of approximately 280,000 residents and an Urbanized Area population of approximately 195,000. The city is the seat of government for Erie County

You can view tap water companies in Erie, PA here.

You can view tap water companies in Pennsylvania here.

Water News

An Environmental Working Group analysis of tap water tests from 1998 through 2002 shows that customers of Erie City Water Authority drank water containing up to 6 pollutants, including one unregulated contaminant. Erie City Water Authority is one of 65,000 water suppliers across the country wrestling with treating water polluted by sprawl, sewage, factory farms, and industry.

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