Title: A Process to Develop and Implement Drinking Water Protection Strategies
1A Process to Develop and Implement Drinking Water
Protection Strategies
2The Big Picture
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4The Fully Loaded Approach
5Four Steps to Developing or Implementing
Protection Strategies
- 1. Form the team
- 2. Review the delineation
- 3. Refine the inventory
- 4. Identify key strategies
Photo from History of the Movies by Edward F.
Dolan, Jr.
6Step 1 Form the Team
- Get key people
- interested
7- Identify potential stakeholders
8Recruit with a passion
- News releases
- School flyers
- Recruitment letters
- Word of Mouth
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Dolan, Jr.
9Clarify roles and responsibilities
- Elected officials
- Water system staff
- Drinking water protection committee
- Interagency steering team
- Consultant
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Dolan, Jr.
10Establish ground rules or bylaws.Choose a
decision-making model.
11Agree on a timeframe and meeting schedule
12Educate the committee
- Groundwater or surface water basics
- Need to develop a plan
- The committees charge
- Guidance documents
13Step 2 - Review the delineation
Discuss the delineation of the source water
protection area
14Have a field tour of the water supply area
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Dolan, Jr.
15Step 3 - Review the inventory
Review the potential risks in the Source Water
Assessment Inventory
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Dolan, Jr.
16Refine the inventory
- Adjust risk ratings
- Identify past land use hazards
- Note variety in land uses
- Map results
17Step 4Develop Management Strategies
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Dolan, Jr.
- Identify ways to reduce risks
18- Break into sub-committees and prioritize threats
19- Recognize what is already being done to minimize
threats.
20- Develop goals broadly stating what is to be
accomplished
21- Review the top dozen
- management strategy categories
22Let the committee make its own choices
- You have brains in your head.
- You have feet in your shoes.
- You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
- You are on your own, And you know what you know.
- And YOU are the guy wholl decide where you go.
Text from Oh, the Places Youll Go! -by Dr. Suess
23Overall approach Keep it concrete and doable
- Educate
- Develop incentives
- Technical assistance
- Use a voluntary approach
24Developing or Implementing Management Strategy
Options
25- The main goal is to identify and do at least a
few things to protect the water supply
26- Recruit by word of mouth
- Be satisfied with who shows up
27- Borrow from existing plans adding what is unique
to your area
28Identify existing group to work with
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Dolan, Jr.
29Pick the Low Hanging Fruit
- The easy things and/or the highest risks
30Weave drinking water protection in with other
issues
- Comprehensive plan updates
- Code updates
- TMDLs
- Parks and open space
31Work Together
- Neighboring water systems
- Watershed
- County
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Dolan, Jr.
32The Groundwater Management Area
- An example of
- Using an existing group
- Integrating with other issues
- Systems working together
- Borrowing from existing plans
33230 Square Miles Within Three Counties
- Five cities
- 51 public water systems
- Multiple land uses
34Committee Formed to Address High Nitrate
35 36Results
- Developed a public water section of the Action
Plan - Have a regional drinking water protection plan
- Joint implementation of strategies
37Benefits
- Less time
- Less money
- Share efforts
- Can approach state and county agencies as a group
38Regardless of the ProcessJust Do It
- Work individually
- Work with others
- Dont develop a plan but do a few things
- Integrate with other issues
39Far and away the best prize that life offers is
the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Theodore Roosevelt 26th President of United
States (1858 - 1919)
40Overall Goal
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