Small Community Wastewater Alternatives

1. Small Community Wastewater Alternatives Section VIII Classroom Exercises

2. Courtesy of Pace U. Land Use Training Sample Exercises • Steering Committee • Roles and Responsibilities • Overcoming Obstacles • Data Collection • Value Creation (Social Marketing) • Moving to Action (Low hanging fruit)

3. Courtesy of Pace U. Land Use Training Identifying Stakeholders • Stakeholders: parties with an interest in the outcome of a decision who have the ability to affect the implementation of a decision

4. Courtesy of Pace U. Land Use Training Types of Stakeholders • Decision-makers • Primary: have ultimate decision-making authority • Secondary: have authority to make partial decisions • Citizens • Primary: can challenge decisions individually • Secondary: can form coalitions to mount a significant challenge • Advisors - People who have information, but are not stakeholders

5. Courtesy of Pace U. Land Use Training Identifying Stakeholders • Steering Committee Exercise 1: Who to invite and why?

6. Courtesy of Pace U. Land Use Training Steering Committee • Roles and Responsibilities Exercise 2: Determining who does what

7. Courtesy of Pace U. Land Use Training Roles and Responsibilities Exercise 2 • Determining who does what and keeping them at it is a challenge. • Have a coordinator as soon as possible. • Elicit strengths, interests, and available time through questions or surveys. • Start small, don’t overwhelm folks. • At each step try to clearly delineate tasks and activities.

8. Courtesy of Pace U. Land Use Training Facilitating Win-Win • Overcoming Obstacles Exercise 3: Gaining voluntary cooperation

9. Courtesy of Pace U. Land Use Training Wastewater Inventory • Data Collection Exercise 4: Develop additional survey questions to characterize non-residential onsite and cluster systems. Group Brainstorming Exercise See RCAP Solutions WW Survey handout

10. Courtesy of Pace U. Land Use Training Wastewater Inventory • Data Collection Exercise 4: • Location • Flow • Unusual Strength? • System type • System condition (how determined?) • Other

11. Social Marketing • Drinking water systems need to market their product to establish value • Bottled water gaining in sales largely due to marketing as “pristine” or better-quality than municipal or private supplies • Establishing value is about documenting and protecting high quality water supplies • All activities that protect against contamination should be advertised and promoted

12. Social Marketing • Value Creation Exercise 5 How to generate more public faith in, and consumption of, municipal water?

13. Moving to Action • Short-term Activities Exercise 6 What kinds of things can be accomplished with little to no money? (Low-hanging fruit)

14. Low-Cost Activities • Public/homeowner education • Promote non-toxic substitutes • Education of boards, planning and zoning, building inspectors, CEO’s • Voluntary activities to work towards a management district or entity • Coordinate with health dept. inspections • Cost-share programs, e.g. replace septic systems • Related projects: watershed planning; flood or drought protection planning