Capital Region Water CEO Shannon Williams at the DeHart, in a screenshot from “Consider the Source.”
The next time you drink a beer at Appalachian Brewing Co., consider this: the water used to make your Mountain Lager or Hoppy Trails I.P.A. likely came from the pristine DeHart reservoir, Harrisburg’s six-billion-gallon water supply.
That’s one of several facts the city’s water and sewer authority asks you to ponder in “Consider the Source,” an informational video released in the past week that takes viewers on a brisk tour of their water’s route “from raindrop to tap.”
Capital Region Water’s chief executive, Shannon Williams, narrates a journey that begins in the sky, pauses at the 5-mile DeHart, and proceeds down the mountains through 25 miles of pipe towards the treatment plant and Reservoir Park, before ultimately reaching the taps of the authority’s 60,000 customers.
Williams also urges viewers to help protect the water they drink, by not littering, picking up or alerting the authority to dumped trash, and reporting vehicle spills along Route 325, which runs through the watershed.
The video, complete with a patrol-boat’s-eye view of the DeHart, was funded in part by the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania, under a grant from the state Department of Environmental Protection. You can watch it here: https://capitalregionwater.com/considerthesource.
