Susquehanna River Basin Commission Joins Twitter

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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

August 16, 2011 | 1:30 PM

The Susquehanna River Basin Commission is now on Twitter, with the handle @SRBCnews.
The group regulates water withdrawals in central and northern Pennsylvania.
Its latest tweet announces withdrawal moratoriums are still in place at 18 locations, due to low water levels. That means natural gas drillers who take water from those streams and creeks in Blair, Bradford, Lycoming, Potter Tioga and Wyoming Counties need to get their fluids elsewhere.
The withdrawal suspension first went into effect about a month ago, and has gradually winnowed, as rain levels increased. As the commission’s website explains, “The suspended withdrawals are part of SRBC’s passby flow requirement to protect aquatic resources and downstream water users. When streams drop below pre-determined protective flow levels, project sponsors who are required to meet SRBC’s passby requirement must stop taking water. They cannot resume taking water until streams have recovered above the protected level for at least 48 hours.”