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Enabling Sourcewater Protection: Integrating Clean Water, Drinking Water and Land Use Planning Efforts Washington, DC Sourcewater Collaborative June 26, 2012. Project Team. Project Mission.

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  1. Enabling Sourcewater Protection: Integrating Clean Water, Drinking Water and Land Use Planning EffortsWashington, DCSourcewater CollaborativeJune 26, 2012

  2. Project Team

  3. Project Mission To help states work across political and programmatic boundaries to better align planning, economic development, regulation and conservation to protect drinking water sources at the local and watershed levels.

  4. Big Question What can state agencies do to promote (primarily local) land use decisions that protect drinking water sources? Educate Incentivize Make it easier to do the right thing

  5. 319 for source protection (Missouri) Question: How to make 319 $$ more accessible for source water activities? 1. Use base funds for planning or implementation. 2. Use incremental funds by designating source water protection a “uniquely high-priority State need.” 3. Use incremental funds by combining source water & 319 requirements (in impaired watersheds).

  6. Permit Review Question: how to better integrate source protection concerns into other permits? • Establish approach to auto-identify permits impacting source water. (e.g. GIS) • Develop standard conditions to apply. • Auto-notify source water staff for optional individual review and conditions. • Consider also identifying particularly sensitive or important source waters with additional standard conditions or public notice requirements.

  7. For more information… • Five webinars later this year: • Non-traditional funding sources for SW protection. • GIS tools to assist state DW and CW programs and non-government partners. • Models for improving collaboration between state SW and CW staff. • Examples of successful state efforts to support and coordinate with local planning activities. • Approaching SWP as an economic development activity.

  8. Final Thoughts • Successful coordination of clean water and drinking water source protection activities is not hard to figure out, but it remains difficult to do. • There are many other allies and potential partners in state government than our ‘usual suspects.’

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