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What is the tempature of fresh black top.
This Pennsylvania agency oversees highways, bridges, and public transit across the Commonwealth.
What is PennDOT?
This company provides drinking water service to much of Pennsylvania, including the Pittsburgh suburbs.
What is Pennsylvania American Water?
This bell in Philadelphia is one of Pennsylvania’s most famous public landmarks.
What is the Liberty Bell?
This system delivers clean drinking water to homes and businesses (without their own wells).
What is the municipal water supply?
The thickness blacktop should be laid.
What is 3 inches?
The historic Main Line of Public Works, completed in 1834, connected Philadelphia to this western city through canals and railways.
What is Pittsburgh?
The Kinzua Dam on the Allegheny River creates this large reservoir.
What is the Allegheny Reservoir?
This battlefield in Pennsylvania was the site of a turning point in the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
The underground network that prevents flooding by channeling rainwater away.
What is the storm sewer system?
The main ingredient.
What is Tar
This Pennsylvania city is home to the nation’s oldest operating trolley system.
What is Philadelphia (SEPTA’s trolley network)?
Pennsylvania has more than this many dams statewide.
What is 1,500 dams?
The Pennsylvania State Capitol, completed in 1906, is located in this city.
What is Harrisburg?
These painted lines separate lanes of traffic moving in the same direction.
What are white lines?
The color of Blacktop
What is Black
PennDOT maintains 41,000 miles, and local governments maintain 78,000 miles.
What are Pennsylvania's roads?
The Bureau of Waterways Engineering and Wetlands enforces this 1937 law to protect streams.
What is the Clean Streams Law?
This canal system was part of the Main Line of Public Works, linking eastern and western PA.
What is the Pennsylvania Canal?
Wastewater is treated at these facilities before being released back into the environment.
What are sewage treatment plants?
This material is most commonly used to pave city streets.
What is asphalt?
After a collapse in 2023, thanks to PennDOT, this major interstate in Philadelphia was reopened in just 12 days.
What is I‑95?
This river, flowing through Harrisburg, is central to flood control and navigation projects.
What is the Susquehanna River?
Originally built as the Pennsylvania Statehouse, both the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were signed in this building.
What is Independence Hall?
The term for physical assets like roads, bridges, and water pipes that serve a community.
What is infrastructure?