EPA Recognizes Shrewsbury Municipal Water Co. for Protecting
Drinking Water The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
presented a source water protection award to the Shrewsbury
Municipal Water Co. in York County, Pa., for taking special
initiatives to protect drinking water sources for local
residents. "Protecting the sources of our drinking water
safeguards both public health and our environment, and we
applaud the Shrewsbury Municipal Water Co. for its extraordinary
effort," said Donald S. Welsh, regional administrator for EPA’s
mid-Atlantic region. EPA selected the Shrewsbury water company
as the Pennsylvania recipient of EPA’s source water protection
award because of the water company’s wellhead protection efforts
and its public education program that emphasizes protection of
public groundwater wells. The groundwater that provides the
water supply to the community is a sole source of Shrewsbury
Borough’s water supply. Shrewsbury Borough enacted a wellhead
protection overlay ordinance in 2002 that manages