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Pike Oley DistrictPreservation Coalition The PODPC Story The Pike Oley District Preservation Coalition traces its origins to a local environmental threat the proposal of the Wissahickon Spring Water Company of Philadelphia to extract water on leased land in Pike Township at the site of an old trout hatchery where a pristine freshwater spring flows into Pine Creek an Exceptional Value stream. The water company obtained permits from Pennsylvanias Department of Environmental Protection and the Delaware River Basin Commission to extract 288000 gallons of water a day. Their next step was application for a zoning amendment in Pike Township which would allow the use of the property for the development of a commercial well pumping and storage and trucking facilities for round the clock shipment to the bottling plant in Kutztown. On May 23 1995 a public hearing of the Wissahickon Spring Water Company before the Pike Township Board of Supervisors attracted a huge crowd of concerned citizens.