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WHYY By Water samples on the banks of Valley Creek. (Hannah Pittel) Updated 11:50 a.m. Thursday Plastic permeates Pennsylvania’s waterways, according to a study released Wednesday by PennEnvironment’s Research & Policy Center. The environmental organization conducted a survey to study the presence of microplastics pieces of plastic debris less than 5 millimeters long, often too tiny to be caught by water-filtration systems in the state’s rivers, creeks, and streams. Turns out, microplastics are everywhere. Researchers took 315 samples from 53 bodies of water throughout the commonwealth over the course of 2020, including the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers in western Pennsylvania; the Susquehanna River and Conodoguinet Creek near Harrisburg; the Spring Creek, Cedar, and Slab Cabin runs in the State College area, and the Schuylkill and lower Delaware rivers and the Wissahickon, Neshaminy, Tookany, and Tohickon creeks around the Philadelphia ....
UpdatedWed, Mar 3, 2021 at 2:48 pm ET Replies(27) State Representative Tim Briggs sample Valley Creek in Valley Forge National Historic Park. (Hannah Pittel) BUCKS COUNTY, PA Of the 53 waterways tested across Pennsylvania, microplastic contamination was found in every one of them, including the Delaware River and Bucks County streams. That s according to a new report released by the PennEnvironment Research & Policy Center using methodology developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The report provides new data on the presence of microplastics in water samples taken from Delaware River, Neshaminy Creek and Tohickon Creek. Microplastics are defined as pieces of plastic less than 5 millimeters in diameter, which is smaller than a grain of rice. ....