Bradford County PA
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Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Joyce M. Tice
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Residents of Tioga and surrounding counties will be offered an opportunity to attend a training workshop on how to properly manage their home’s private water system (wells, springs, or cisterns). 
Residents who rely on private water systems as their home drinking water supply may be at risk of drinking contaminated water.  In Pennsylvania, public drinking water supplies are the only water supplies that are tested and protected against contamination.  Private water systems are unregulated, so landowners need to take the proper measures themselves to ensure that their drinking water is safe for consumption. 
 This workshop is offered as part of the “Master Well Owner Network”, a program intended to teach volunteers from across the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania about proper management of their own private water system.  In return, the volunteers must go out into their local community to educate others about the importance of proper management of private drinking water supplies.  “During the training, we’ll cover proper well location, construction, and maintenance, land-use activities associated with individual pollutants, drinking water standards, water testing, and water treatment,” says Stephanie Clemens, coordinator of the Master Well Owner Network. 
All volunteers will receive a handbook and other educational materials, a free lunch, a certificate for completion of the training workshop, access to Penn State Water Experts, and an invitation to the Pennsylvania Groundwater Association summer conference. 
Resource professionals such as Penn State Cooperative Extension, the Pennsylvania Ground Water Association, the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency will offer this training on Saturday, May 14, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Tokishi Training Center in Wellsboro, PA, Tioga County. 
To become part of this network or for more information, please contact Stephanie Clemens at 814-865-2250 or by email at mwon@psu.edu. Information and a volunteer application can be found at http://extension.psu.edu/water/mwon.  Space is limited and applications need to be received by April 27, 2011 or until all spots are filled. 
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Bradford County PA
Chemung County NY
Tioga County PA
Page Published on 30 April 2011
By Joyce M. Tice
Email: Joyce M. Tice

 

Hi Joyce,

Your Tri-Counties site is terrific, and often the best source for obscure pictures and information about the small towns that dot Tioga & Bradford Counties.

PennDOT has historic county maps online here:
http://www.dot.state.pa.us/Internet/Bureaus/pdPlanRes.nsf/infoBPRCartoMapsinPDFandDJVU?OpenForm

Historic county maps that may interest you are
ftp://ftp.dot.state.pa.us/public/pdf/BPR_PDF_FILES/Maps/Type_10_GHS_Historical_Scans/Bradford_1911.pdf
ftp://ftp.dot.state.pa.us/public/pdf/BPR_PDF_FILES/Maps/Type_10_GHS_Historical_Scans/Bradford_1941_Sheet_1.pdf

and
ftp://ftp.dot.state.pa.us/public/pdf/BPR_PDF_FILES/Maps/Type_10_GHS_Historical_Scans/Tioga_1915.pdf
ftp://ftp.dot.state.pa.us/public/pdf/BPR_PDF_FILES/Maps/Type_10_GHS_Historical_Scans/Tioga_1941_Sheet_1.pdf

From http://www.dot.state.pa.us/Internet/Bureaus/pdPlanRes.nsf/infoBPRHistoricCountyMaps

Route numbers changed often and alignments shifted as the Department upgraded roads, and these maps help verify locations of schools, churches, etc.

Enjoy,

Matt Hamel, Regional Historian
PennDOT Districts 2-0, 3-0 & 4-0

Joyce,

I also remembered an additional source of historic maps that would also include NY: http://historical.mytopo.com/

For example, here’s a 1902 map showing Lawrence Twp. in Tioga County and others south:

http://historical.mytopo.com/getImage.asp?fname=tiog02nw.jpg&state=PA

Matt