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… work with water suppliers, sewer authorities, the state Department of Environmental
Protection, and local municipalities to match water supply areas, sewer service areas, and
Designated Growth Areas
Water supply and sewage treatment services are provided by municipal authorities or private utility companies. The county
will advocate with these agencies to coordinate their efforts with local plans, county plans, and each other.
Generally, sewer and water service areas should:
■■ Serve Designated Growth Areas, as shown in the county’s Future Land Use Map.
■■ Only be extended into Rural Resource Areas because those areas are already served by either public sewer or water,
have concentrations of failing on-lot sewage systems, have water supply problems, or contain cluster development with
significant open space preservation. Cluster development should have at least 60% open space, a density of less than one
home per acre, and a location within a half a mile of an existing public sewer and water system.
■■ Match each other’s service areas as much as possible. It is particularly important to avoid having on-site wells serving
developments served by public sewers, because this pulls water out of the water table and discharges it into streams rather
than allowing it to infiltrate back into the ground.
■■ Proportion of new water
service areas and sewer
service areas that falls
within Designated Growth
Areas, as shown on the
Future Land Use Map
■■ Proportion of new water
service areas and sewer
service areas that falls
within each other’s service
areas
Measuring success
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Pottstown
Norristown
Lansdale
Collegeville
Jenkintown
Conshohocken
§¨
¦
476
§¨
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276
§¨
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76
§¨
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476
£
¤
422
£
¤
202
611
100
309
Hatboro
Ambler
Pennsburg
73
663
29
29
73
Existing Public Water Service
Future Public Water Service
Existing and Preserved Open Space and Farmland
Areas Without Future Public Water Service
Note: Mapping based, in part, upon 2010 Land Use Information
EXISTING AND FUTURE WATER SERVICE AREAS
