News & Updates
It’s Time to Celebrate National Water Quality Month!
August 14, 2023It’s National Water Quality Month, a time to recognize and celebrate the vital role that clean, high-quality water plays in all of our lives. National Water Quality Month, which occurs every August, can be traced back to two Congressional acts passed in the early 1970s in an effort to protect our water sources. In 1972,…
See You Later, Alligator!
June 26, 2023You may recall that back in April, two of our crew members rescued a baby alligator that found its way onto the pre-treatment screens at our Kline’s Island Wastewater Treatment Plant. The pint-sized reptile, which measures just a little over a foot long, has been relocated to its new home, Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland in Allenwood,…
Drinking Water Week is Here!
May 6, 2023It’s Drinking Water Week — the American Water Works Association’s annual celebration of the vital and often under-appreciated role that drinking water plays in our daily lives! Clean, safe water is essential to protecting public health and our environment. We literally need clean water to survive—so much so that the Mayo Clinic says the age-old…
Find Those Leaks — and Fix Them!
March 20, 2023It’s the EPA’s 15th annual Fix A Leak Week. Did you know that household leaks can waste nearly 1 trillion gallons of water nationwide every year? That’s why we set aside one week every March for the EPA’s annual Fix a Leak Week. This year we’re hunting down leaks from March 20-26, but remember: You can…
LCA Employees Deliver Angel Tree, Food Pantry Donations
December 20, 2022LCA employees work hard all year ‘round to deliver reliable, high-quality water and wastewater services to our customers. But in December, we always take time to help Santa deliver something else to Lehigh Valley families: food and holiday cheer. Through The Salvation Army’s Angel Tree program, our workers donated gifts for 24 children from the…
Avoid The Holiday FOG!
November 23, 2022No, we’re not talking about the brain fog and sleepiness that too much turkey and football brings on. We’re talking about the fats, oils and grease that commonly get dumped down the drain during those big holiday meals. Many plumbing companies across the country report that Thanksgiving and the days after it are among their…
Here’s How You Can Conserve Water During the Drought Watch
September 1, 2022It’s dry out there! So dry that the state Department of Environmental Protection has announced that Lehigh and 35 other counties—including Berks, Bucks, Northampton, and Monroe—are under a drought watch. LCA is not experiencing any system-specific issues related to supplying our customers with water, but we are asking ALL customers to immediately begin to conserve…
Help LCA to Locate Lead Pipes!
August 3, 2022Lehigh County Authority is undertaking an important project, and we need your help: We’re conducting an inventory of all water service line pipes connected to the public system, so that we can determine the location of any remaining pipes that are composed of lead or other unknown materials. Your part is simple: Just check your…
Pink Slime in Your Pet’s Water Dish? Don’t Panic!
July 15, 2022Have you seen pink slime forming in your pets’ water dishes, around toilet bowls and drains, on tiles and in shower stalls? Are you pulling your hair out, fretting over the source of this gruesome goo? We can assure you of two things: 1.) It’s not caused by anything in the water you’re getting from…
Celebrate Drinking Water Week With LCA!
May 3, 2022It’s our favorite time of the year: the American Water Works Association’s Drinking Water Week! Each year during the first full week of May, water professionals and the communities they serve join together to recognize and celebrate the vital role water plays in our daily lives. Every day, millions of us turn on the tap,…