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Home   »   Blog   »   News & Updates

LCA Employees Contribute to Angel Tree Program

  • Posted on:December 10, 2019
  • Posted in:News & Updates, Uncategorized
  • Posted by:Lehigh County Authority
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Above, from left, LCA’s John B.; Darien Huaman, Director of Social Services for the Salvation Army, and LCA employees Christopher B. and Pierce H. with some of the gifts LCA employees donated for the Angel Tree program.   LCA employees gave Santa Claus a helping hand earlier this week when they delivered presents for 33…

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Lehigh County Authority Employees Win Two Wastewater Treatment Awards

  • Posted on:November 26, 2019
  • Posted in:News & Updates, water safety
  • Posted by:Lehigh County Authority
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LCA was honored with two awards from the Eastern Pennsylvania Water Pollution Control Operators Association earlier this month. The first award, for Industrial Pretreatment, recognizes the staff at LCA’s Industrial Pretreatment Plant in Fogelsville and The Kline’s Island Wastewater Treatment Plant in Allentown for their diligent work to meet the requirements of the EPA-mandated pretreatment…

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LCA Wins Water Quality Award for 12th Year in a Row

  • Posted on:November 5, 2019
  • Posted in:News & Updates, Water Supply, Water Works
  • Posted by:Lehigh County Authority
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Congratulations to our great Water Filtration Plant team for receiving the Area Wide Optimization Program (AWOP) Award for the twelfth year in a row! The award is presented to participants that meet the American Water Works Association Partnership program’s water quality standards, which are much more stringent than standards set in place by the state Department…

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Tags: awardAWOPAWWAwater quality

Fire Hydrant Maintenance — Yup, We Do That, Too

  • Posted on:August 23, 2019
  • Posted in:Behind The Scenes, infrastructure, News & Updates
  • Posted by:Lehigh County Authority
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LCA crews have been hard at work this summer, flushing, painting and repairing hydrants throughout the city of Allentown. Maintaining hydrants is an important and ongoing task. Our crews inspect and test over 900 hydrants every year so that they’re in peak condition in case the fire department needs them. We look for leaks, check…

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Tags: fire hydrantsflushingmaintenance

LCA Employees Earn Angel Wings Through Salvation Army Donations

  • Posted on:December 11, 2018
  • Posted in:News & Updates
  • Posted by:Lehigh County Authority
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Every day, LCA employees work hard to deliver reliable, high-quality water services. Last week, they helped deliver something else: presents for 32 local children in need, through The Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program. The Angel Tree program provides new clothing or toys for children of needy families through the support of donors. The gifts are…

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Tags: Angel TreechristmasholidaysLCA employeesSalvation Army

Celebrate National GIS Day with LCA

  • Posted on:November 12, 2018
  • Posted in:News & Updates, Water Works
  • Posted by:Lehigh County Authority
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You probably didn’t know that Wednesday is National GIS Day. In fact, many of you are probably scratching your heads and thinking, “I don’t even know what GIS is!” GIS, or Geographic Information System, is a way to capture, manage, analyze and present geographically referenced data. In short, it’s a type of computerized mapping system….

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Tags: Geographic Information SystemGISmap

Unusually High Water Bill? Here’s What to Do Next

  • Posted on:October 11, 2018
  • Posted in:billing, News & Updates, water usage
  • Posted by:Lehigh County Authority
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Did you receive a water bill that seems much higher than it should be? Does the bill show that your water use increased by a significant amount?   When water passes through the meter and is recorded, customers are billed based on the amount recorded by the meter. A water bill that is suddenly significantly…

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Tags: billinghigh water billleaksplumber

Imagine a Day Without Water

  • Posted on:October 3, 2018
  • Posted in:infrastructure, News & Updates, Sewer System Rehab, Water Supply, Water Works
  • Posted by:Lehigh County Authority
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Can you imagine a day without water? No water to drink, or even to make coffee with. No water to shower, flush the toilet, or do laundry. Hospitals would close. Firefighters couldn’t put out fires, and farmers couldn’t water their crops. A single nationwide day without water service would put $43.5 billion in economic activity…

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Tags: imagine a day without waterinfrastructureWater infrastructure and finance innovation act

Emergency Preparedness: Making A Plan Can Save Lives

  • Posted on:September 12, 2018
  • Posted in:News & Updates, Safety
  • Posted by:Lehigh County Authority
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Hurricane Florence is on the doorstep of the Carolinas, and the National Hurricane Center is calling the massive storm, with its sustained winds of up to 130 mph, “life-threatening.” Though it looks like the South will take the brunt of Florence, it’s not just the coastal states that are at risk. The greater Lehigh Valley…

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Tags: emergency preparednessHurricane Florencestorm plan

The beauty of … bacteria?

  • Posted on:August 13, 2018
  • Posted in:infrastructure, News & Updates, Water Works
  • Posted by:Lehigh County Authority
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  This is a beautiful photo — but what’s even more beautiful is what you can’t see: The water purification process taking place.  The water that’s being sprayed into the air is wastewater, and it’s landing on rocks that are coated with a film of specialized, microscopic organisms. As the wastewater trickles down through the…

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Tags: bacteriaKline's Islandsewer treatmenttrickling filters
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