Corporate Profile for Pennsylvania-American Water Co., dated May 12, 1995 Business Editors.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases from this client are distributed by Business Wire and also are stored in many popular databases, including Nexis, Dialog, CompuServe, Dow Jones News Retrieval, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Textline, Corporate Data Exchange, NewsNet, and others. -0- Published date: May 12, 1995 Company name: Pennsylvania-American Water Co. Address: 800 West Hershey Park Dr., Hershey, PA 17033 Telephone No.: 717/533-5000 Chief Executive Officer: Robert M. Ross Chief Financial Officer: James E. Harrison Investor Relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. Contact: Michael N. Kilpatric Business number: 609/346-8291 Home number: 609/767-4046 Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Contact: Robert W. Manbeck Business number: 717/531-3304 Home number: 717/697-6373 Trading symbol: NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AWK (Aho Weinberger Kernighan) A Unix programming utility developed in 1977 by Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger and Brian Kernighan. Due to its unique pattern-matching syntax, awk is often used in data retrieval and data transformation. Industry: Wather Utility Company description: Pennsylvania-American Water Co. is the largest investor-owned public water utility in Pennsylvania and a subsidiary of American Water Works Company Inc. (NYSE:AWK). It supplies high quality, potable potable /pot·a·ble/ (po´tah-b'l) fit to drink. po·ta·ble adj. Fit to drink; drinkable. potable fit to drink. water to residential, commercial and industrial customers. Pennsylvania-American has the capacity to meet a daily system demand of 235 million gallons of water. The average daily demand in 1994 was 148 million gallons. Three geographically diverse operating areas consisting of 30 distribution systems serve a population of 1.5 million people in 218 communities located in 28 counties. Water is collected from rivers, streams, lakes, wells and springs, treated and then distributed through 5,200 miles of mains. The company employs over 800 people. Pennsylvania-American operates under the rules and regulations of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission which approves rates charged for water service. The company must also meet standards established by the state Department of Environmental Resources and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and . As an American Water Works Company Inc. subsidiary, the company has access to American's Quality Control and Research Laboratory in Belleville, Ill., which is certified by the EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. and 26 states. This laboratory routinely analyzes water samples for Pennsylvania-American, supplementing the subsidiary's practice of typically performing 120 daily water quality tests. CONTACT: Pennsylvania-American Water Co. |
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