HOMEOWNERS
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Title: Bayscapes Homeowner's Guides Pack
Format: Booklet
Audience: General
Length: 15 pp
Contact: Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
Description: Environmentally sound garden and landscape techniques that
prevent pollution
Title: Citizen's Guide To Home Drinking Water Treatment Devices
Format: Booklet
Audience: Citizens
Length: 31 pp
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Water
Supply and Wastewater Management
Description: Objective information on treatment devices for common homeowner
well problems
Title: Country Living: A Homeowner's Guide
Format: Booklet
Audience: Homeowners
Length: 15 pp
Contact: Penn State University - Publications Distribution Center
Description: Presents the basics of private drinking water supply, on-lot
wastewater disposal, and the authorities and workings of township government
Title: Disinfection of Home Wells and Springs
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: General, local officials
Length: 2 pp
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Water
Supply and Wastewater Management
Description: Provides information on common homeowner well problems and
procedure for treating bacteriological contamination of private wells
Title: GreenWorks For Pennsylvania: Buy Recycled, The Eco-Logical Home,
Environment in the Home and Reduce, Reuse and Recycle
Format: Series of videos (available separately or as series)
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on varying
environmental issues
Title: Home*A*Syst: An Environment Risk Assessment Guide for the Home
Format: Booklet
Audience: Homeowners
Length: 116 pp
Contact: Natural Resource, Agriculture and Engineering Service
Description: An environmental risk-assessment guide for the home
Title: Household Hazardous Waste: What You Should and Shouldn't Do
Format: Brochure
Audience: Citizens
Length: Two-sided brochure
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Land Recycling
and Waste Management
Description: Guide to household products including hazardous ingredients
and alternatives
Title: Recycle Used Motor Oil
Format: Brochure
Audience: General
Length: 2 pp
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Land Recycling
and Waste Management
Description: Where to recycle used motor oil
Title: Water Quality Help Guide
Format: Website, http://www.water-research.net/helpguide.htm
Audience: General
Length: n/a
Contact: Wilkes University - Center for Environmental Quality
Description: A comprehensive guide to drinking water testing
Title: We All Live Downstream - A Homeowners Guide: Improve Your Property,
Improve the Environment
Format: Booklet
Audience: General/homeowners
Length: 41 pp
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Contains successful methods of residential drainage and
water management
Title: Yard Care for Bay Repair
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Citizens
Length: 2 pp
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Discusses mowing, fertilizers, watering, soil testing, seeding
and pest management for healthy, less toxic lawn care