GOVERNOR'S OFFICE [32 Pa.B. 3073] Amendment to Proclamation June 14, 2002
Whereas, on February 12, 2002, I declared a state of drought and water shortage emergency in twenty-four counties of the Commonwealth due to a long and continuing period of rainfall deficits and a lack of winter snow accumulation which resulted in abnormally low stream flows, reduced groundwater levels and water supply shortages within those counties; and
Whereas, on May 7, 2002, I renewed the Declaration of Drought Emergency for ninety days in twenty counties of the Commonwealth due to insufficient amounts of rainfall to replenish the groundwater levels or return overall water supplies to their normal levels within those twenty counties; and
Whereas, since the May 7, 2002 renewal of the Declaration of Drought Emergency, there has been sufficient amounts of rainfall in Bucks, Dauphin, Montgomery, Perry, Philadelphia, and Wayne Counties to replenish the groundwater levels or return overall water supplies to their normal levels within those six counties; and
Whereas, the previous drought and water shortage conditions no longer exist within those six counties.
Now Therefore, I, Mark S. Schweiker, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pursuant to the provisions of Subsection 7301(c) of the Emergency Management Services Code (35 Pa.C.S. Section 7101 et seq.), do hereby order and direct as follows:
1. The Counties of Bucks, Dauphin, Montgomery, Perry, Philadelphia, and Wayne are removed from the designated drought emergency area.
2. All of the authorized actions by state agencies and departments, regulations, water-use restrictions, and other terms, conditions, and provisions of the February 12, 2002 Declaration of Drought Emergency shall continue in full force and effect in the fourteen counties that remain in the designated drought emergency area.
3. This Proclamation amendment shall take effect immediately.
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Governor, at the city of Harrisburg, this fourteenth day of June in the year of our Lord, two thousand and two and of the Commonwealth, the two-hundred and twenty-sixth.
