Rapho Township, Lancaster County - Pennsylvania

06/12/2026

06/09/2026

Find out which Lancaster County watershed you live in, and learn how you can protect the streams and rivers in your community.

05/26/2026

Due to the Memorial Day Holiday (5/25/26), all regular Penn Waste trash and recycling customers will be delayed by one (1) day. Monday customers will be collected Tuesday. Tuesday customers will be collected on Wednesday and so on for the remainder of the week through Saturday.

Please visit our web site at www.pennwaste.com for specific municipality information.

Penn Waste wishes all of our customers a safe and happy holiday!

05/19/2026

Are you looking for something to do once the kids are out of school? Check out these family-friendly Lancaster Water Week events with fun educational opportunities and activities for kids:

💧 Public Water Independence Day - Saturday, June 6 with 𝐂𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐲

💧 Summer STEM Camp: Pollution Solutions - June 8-12 with The Lancaster Science Factory

💧 Stauffer Run Creek Stomp - Wednesday, June 10 with Greenfield Lancaster and Lancaster Conservancy

💧 The Scoop on Clean Water - Thursday, June 11 with Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Turkey Hill Dairy, and Maola Milk

💧 Exploring the Power of Water - Thursday, June 11 with Franklin & Marshall College

💧 Creek Discovery Day: Exploring a Creek and Riparian Buffer - Friday, June 12 with The New Chiques Creek Watershed Alliance

💧 Saturday Seedlings: Soil, Seeds, and Water - Saturday, June 13 with Lancaster Farmland Trust and The Wittel Farm

💧 Water Week Storytime & Kids' Craft - Saturday, June 13 with Pocket Books Shop

Learn more and register for these and other Water Week events at https://www.lancasterconservancy.org/water-week/events/

📸: Michelle Johnsen Photography

05/19/2026

We're proud to host an event for Lancaster Water Week with the Lancaster Conservancy! Join us for a kid-friendly creek ecology activity and bluebird house building Friday, June 12th at 5PM just outside Manheim. Registration required at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeCXema5VJvCxlBZ3ZpqzOOk5jAz_dzyz9TA31aK1vF9bZiOw/viewform

05/13/2026

05/11/2026

We're less than a month away from the 10th annual Lancaster Water Week! 💧 Join us and dozens of partners for over 60 events from kayaking to nature journaling, creek stomps to film screenings, book talks to volunteer cleanups!

Learn something new, explore our streams and rivers, and celebrate our waterways June 5-13! Find more information and sign up for events at ➡ lancasterwaterweek.org

📸: Michelle Johnse

04/27/2026

Lancaster County's Animal Response Team (CART) is offering a training class at LCPSTC. See flyer for details...