A West Penn Township resident whose well has been dry for nearly two months remains in search of a resolution.

Jodi Mulcahy, who lives along West Penn Pike, told township supervisors Tuesday morning she’s spoken with the Department on Environmental Protection.

Mulcahy said she was told they do not monitor any water extraction in this area, and that when it comes to matters such as well drilling and permits, they are not responsible.

“There is absolutely nobody that is monitoring the amount they are extracting from West Penn Township,” Mulcahy said. “They’re telling me they don’t know, the Delaware River Basin Commission is telling me they don’t know.”

Further, Mulcahy, who said she ran out of water on Oct. 26, expressed that neither DEP, Schuylkill County Commissioners, Delaware River Basin Commission, nor township supervisors are doing anything about her situation.

“I feel like I’m stonewalled no matter which way I go,” Mulcahy said. “The amount of time and energy involved with this is utterly ridiculous.”

Township solicitor Paul J. Datte told Mulcahy the issue is determining whether her well is in the zone of influence of Jay Land’s well.

Board Chairman Tony Prudenti the township feels it is not making progress either.

Supervisor James Akins told Mulcahy that while he empathizes with her, he assured it isn’t due to a lack of effort on the township’s behalf.

“In your shoes, I would be highly emotional,” Akins said. “Please don’t say we are not doing anything.”

Regardless, Mulcahy said she has not received one piece of correspondence.

The township has attempted to expedite well permits as wells and streams continue to go dry.

Last month, supervisors on a 2-0 vote agreed to instruct Bill Brior, sewage enforcement officer, to expedite any well permits due to the dry wells.

Mulcahy told the board she hasn’t heard back from Jay Land, who is associated with surrounding water extraction projects.

Mulcahy said that according to the permit, Land should be rectifying the situation because she is located in his watershed, based on what she was told by the Delaware River Basin Commission.

But, she added that Land told her that he won’t and his partners refuse to help because they’d have to drill for everybody’s well that went dry.

Prudenti assured Mulcahy that the board would have Datte follow up.

Mulcahy added it’s very hard to decipher where her watershed is.

The township had three pallets of bottled water and offered to have the township load up Mulcahy’s car with water.

Earlier last month the township brought a tanker full of water to the municipal building’s parking lot.

Supervisors said at that time they would also ask water extraction companies operating in the township to scale back on the amount they’re withdrawing during the drought.

The Delaware River Basin Commission regulates water withdrawal.

And while the township does have an ordinance regarding water extraction, it applies only to new companies who are seeking to pull water from the ground.

The ordinance limits the amount of water that can be extracted during droughts but does not govern the companies already operating in the township.

Former supervisor Timothy Houser said at that meeting two streams on his property were down to a trickle, and a spring-fed pond is down well over a foot.

He said he was never against water extraction, but that his biggest concern when the board approved it was that they should be mandated to stop pumping groundwater in drought conditions.