10-Year Analysis of Public Water Loss in Delaware Basin Presented at Council Meeting

UPPER DELAWARE, N.Y.—Nearly two out of every 10 gallons of water tapped from the Delaware River basin to feed public water systems are lost in distribution before they reach end customers, according to a presentation at an Upper Delaware Council meeting on June 6. The presentation was based on 10-year data collected from 300 participating public systems drawing water from the expansive basin, which stretches across four states on the East Coast. More than 7 million people, or three out of four basin residents, rely on those public systems for drinking water, including thousands of residents in the City of Port Jervis. “It is a huge feat of engineering, which delivers hundreds of millions of gallons of drinking water to people across the basin,” said Michael Thompson, water resource engineer of the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC)....