Issue no. 1 is out! of the Philadelphia Water Department’s Monoshone Watershed Quarterly Water Quality Update. It’s useful to finally have what we all hope will be an on-going, official report about the state of our creek.

Chris Robinson of Northwest Greens brought this to our attention, noting that it is a big step and an improvement for the PWD to be so openly reporting on the watershed. He also points out the extremely high fecal coliform counts registered at Outfall 5 in the latter part of 2008. An opinion article in the Chestnut Hill Local by Joel Hoffman expresses what many folk in the community are thinking. By all counts, this is a stinky issue that’s not going away and has, to date, defied a solution despite mountains of effort and bundles of money.

For all of you who have enjoyed KNEE DEEP and asked for an update, take a look, then seek out Chris Robinson of Northwest Greens, Charles Parsons of the Philadelphia Watershed Alliance or Joanne Dahme of the PWD to help in the efforts to clean up our creek.