EPA 908-R-04-019
Winter 2004
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In this Issue:
National Water Monitoring
Day Brings Teachers to
Outdoor Classroom
Red River Water Festival
Bioassessments Leading to
Biocriteria
EPA's Electronic Notification
Process (eNOI)
Water Quality Trading
Policy
Watershed Initiative
Migrant Farm Worker
Drinking Water: Safe at the
Well?
Water Security and You
Voluntary Guidelines for
Decentralized Wastewater
Systems Now Available
EPA Publishes Guidelines for
National Non-point Source
Program
Web Resources
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Teachers learn to measure instantaneous
discharge under the instruction of the US
Geological Survey's Greg O'Neill
-Photo by the Big Thompson Watershed
Forum
National Water Monitoring Day
Brings Teachers to Outdoor
Classroom
~Barb Maynard, Big Thompson
Watershed Forum and George Parrish,
EPA Region 8
The Big Thompson Watershed Forum
(BTWF) collaborated with EPA Region 8,
Colorado natural resources groups and
other federal agencies to celebrate National
Water Monitoring Day on October 17, by
offering high school teachers and natural
resource professionals a chance to learn
hands-on about the intricacies of
monitoring water quality and quantity.
The day was designed to provide teachers
with a number of lessons that are practical
and relevant for use in their classrooms.
The EPA Region 8 Water Quality Unit and
Golden Lab, US Geological Survey,
Colorado Division of Water Resources,
Colorado Division of Wildlife, Colorado
State University, Colorado Watershed
Network and BTWF each taught different
aspects of water monitoring and water
resources to 23 teachers, four Rocky
Mountain National Park staff, one EPA
intern, three BTWF members, and one staff
member of Earth Force, a Denver non-
profit organization. These participants
have an expected average annual audience
of over 14,500 people! The BTWF took a
train-the-trainers approach, reaching out to
educators and environmental professionals
to extend the workshops outreach to the
largest possible audience.
Classroom sessions were presented in water
resources management; water rights and
administration; water quality monitoring;
the river continuum concept; and water
quantity versus water quality. Field
training allowed participants to get their
feet wet while learning about measuring
stream discharge; river morphology;
nutrients and dissolved oxygen sampling
and analysis; and macroinvertebrate and
bacteria sampling and identification.
Participants received valuable and up-to-
date water-related resource materials for
use in classroom presentations and outdoor
activities, and received course credits
through the Colorado School of Mines.
Sylvan Dale Ranch generously donated the
use of their beautiful facility on the Big
Thompson River. Mother Nature provided
a beautiful sunny and warm autumn day
along the river, bringing together people
who care about preserving our precious
water resources. For more information on
the Big Thompson Watershed Forum
visit their website at:
http://www.btwatershed.org/
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Stacey Eriksenfrom EPA talks about wetlands.
-Photo by Christine Holland, River Keepers
Red River Water Festival
~Christine Holland, River Keepers, Jeff Baird, Fargo
Forum article 10/02/03
In 1999, River Keepers initiated the first-ever youth water
festival in the Fargo, ND-Moorhead, MN area. The first water
festival had an attendance of 350 students. With the assistance
of an EPA-funded project, FM River, the water festival was
able to expand to include the majority of the 4th grade students
in the two local watersheds. The 2003 festival, held September
30 to October 2, had 1,400 students attending over a three-day
period. Each class attends the festival for a half-day session
featuring an opening speaker and four hands-on activities
related to water. This is now the third largest festival in the tri-
state area.
Buffalo Red River Watershed District Administrator, Bruce
Albright, showed students how an innocuous task like
fertilizing the lawn can cause pollution.
Laura Bonneau of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service used yarn
to demonstrate to students how the ecosystem is interconnected.
Each student wore tags naming a specific plant or animal. They
were then told to pass the ball of yarn to a species their tag
depended on so a web was formed. Students then saw no plant
or animal could be taken out of the web without impacting all
the other species.
Stacey Eriksen from EPA Region 8 taught classes on Wetlands
Metaphors using common objects, like a sponge, as physical
metaphors for natural wetland functions. Also, objects that are
found in wetlands were handled and discussed as to why they
belong in a wetland. "We learned about the wetlands," said
Malena Mastel, a fourth grader at Longfellow Elementary
in Fargo. "We learned what lives there and why they need
each other."
The festival, which is free to students and schools, is the
result of weeks of planning by River Keepers, a local
nonprofit group focused on promoting the Red River. All
experts are asked to make the presentations interactive.
"A lot of times the kids are having fun and not even
realizing they're learning," said Christine Holland, project
coordinator. This was the first time Dilworth Elementary
teacher Nancy Cole took her fourth-grade students to the
festival. She plans on returning. "This is excellent," she
said. "It is important they learn about conservation. Their
future and their children's future depends on it."
The success of the current Red River Water Festival can
be attributed to several factors. First, the festival
emphasizes hands-on activities that engage the students.
These activities, many of which are a component of
Project WET (Water Education for Teachers), have been
proven effective at increasing student knowledge. Second,
teachers are provided pre-and post-water festival student
activities to integrate into their water and land curriculum.
Third, festival logistics and sessions are modified yearly
based on evaluations. Fourth, presenters are carefully
chosen based upon their expertise and ability to actively
engage youth in hands-on activities. Fifth, the festival is
tightly scheduled and logistics are carefully well-
coordinated to ensure optimum teacher participation.
For more information, please contact Christine Holland
of Fargo-Moorhead River Keepers at (701) 235-2595 or
riverkeepers(5)j29.net
Bioassessments Leading to Biocriteria
~By Suzanne Pagorek, EPA Region 8
This is the eighth article in a series describing how the
Clean Water Act is linked to watershed planning and
implementation. The previous articles by Karen Hamilton
described the Clean Water Water Act components that are
analogous to a generic watershed plan, water quality
standards, total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), data for
watershed management, biocriteria I and II, and
monitoring and assessment. This article is a continuation
of our biocriteria discussions, part I in Fall 2002 Issue 15,
and part II Winter 2003, Issue 16.
As previously discussed, ecological integrity is a
combination of three components: chemical integrity,
physical integrity, and biological integrity. When one or
more of these components is degraded, the health of the
waterbody will be affected and, in most cases, the aquatic
life living there will reflect the degradation.
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The identification of water-quality degradation requires
appropriate monitoring tools. Bioassessments are the primary
tool to evaluate the biological condition of a waterbody.
Bioassessments consist of surveys and other direct
measurements of aquatic life in the waterbody. Aquatic life
integrates the cumulative effects of different stressors such as:
• excess nutrients (fertilizer);
• toxic chemicals;
• increased temperature;
• and excessive sediment loading.
Since plants and animals (biological communities) respond to
stresses over time, they provide information that water
chemistry measurements or toxicity tests do not always
produce.
Biologists and other natural resource scientists use accepted
scientific principles to derive biocriteria from bioassessment
data. Biocriteria are narrative descriptions or numerical values
that describe the least impacted (reference) aquatic life
inhabiting waters of a designated aquatic life use. Further, the
reference describes attainable biological conditions for water
body segments with common physical characteristics within the
same biogeographic region. Reference conditions can be used
as goals for restoration of water bodies. Narrative biological
criteria are general statements of attainable conditions of
biological integrity and water quality for a given use
designation.
Additionally, states and tribes can adopt biocriteria into water
quality standards to describe a desired condition for the aquatic
life in waters they have designated for aquatic life use. The
process of developing biological criteria, including refined use
classes, narrative criteria, and numeric criteria, includes agency
managers, staff biologists, and the public through public
hearings and comment.
The use of biological assessment and criteria for managing the
Nation's waterbodies is progressing, and is equipping the states,
tribal nations, and EPA with a more effective set of monitoring
tools for protecting the ecological integrity of our water
resources. With colloboration among EPA, state agencies, and
other agencies, all states nationwide now have bioassessment
programs for streams and small rivers, and over half the states
have adopted at least narrative biocriteria into their water
quality standards. State water quality programs benefit from
biological criteria because:
• they directly assess impairments to existing aquatic life
from impacts on the environment;
• are defensible and quantifiable;
• document improvements in water quality; reduce the
likelihood of false positives;
• and provide information on the integrity of biological
systems that is compelling to the public.
The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality has made
significant progress integrating biocriteria into their water
quality assessments. Originally, the State conducted
bioassessments to assess the support of aquatic life for
using macroinvertebrates as the primary indicator. The
State also collected baseline biological data from
minimally impacted streams in each ecoregion of
Wyoming as a benchmark for assessing biological and
water quality conditions of other streams across the state,
and for creating an Index of Biological Integrity (IBI). An
IBI is a synthesis of diverse biological information that
numerically depicts associations between human influence
and biological attributes. Wyoming expanded its program
and not only collects reference stream data but is also using
this collected data to analyze biological conditions of other
Wyoming streams. Of the 2,639 miles assessed for
biology, 2,124 (80%) Wyoming stream miles are fully
supporting designated uses. Wyoming uses biological data
in nonpoint source assessments, TMDL assessment and
monitoring, and aquatic life use determinations.
Biosurveys and biological criteria add the needed
dimension to assessment programs because they focus on
the aquatic community. Biological components of the
aquatic system are a useful indicator of both aggregate
ecological impact and overall temporal trends in the
condition of an aquatic ecosystem. Furthermore,
biosurveys can detect aquatic life impacts that other
available assessment methods may miss.
To find out more about the bioassessment program in your
state, see the document, Summary of Biological
Assessment Programs and Biocriteria Development for
States, Tribes, Territories, and Interstate Commissions:
Streams and Wadeable Rivers or the State Bioassessment
Program Website:
http://www.epa.gov/bioindicators/html/stateprgs.html
Further information is also available online at the EPA
Office of Science and Technology Website:
http://www.ep a. gov/waterscience/biocriteria/
EPA's Electronic Notification Process (eNOI)
-Greg Davis, EPA Region 8
EPA recently developed the first online application for
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)
pollution discharge permits. This application, referred to
as the eNOI (electronic Notice of Intent), allows
construction operators to apply for a NPDES stormwater
permit online. The eNOI application allows permits to be
obtained more easily, quickly and accurately than permits
obtained by submitting a paper application in the mail.
The following questions are provided as guidance on the
eNOI electronic application.
What is the eNOI?
The eNOI is an electronic form that resides on EPA's
Central Data Exchange (CDX). To use the eNOI, users
must first register with CDX. Registration is quick and
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easy. Once registered with CDX, the eNOI guides the
applicant through a series of questions that comprise the
NPDES permit application. At the end of this process, the
application is signed online and the information is transferred
to the EPA's Notice of Intent (NOI) database and an email is
sent out notifying the user that the application has been
received.
What types of permits can you apply for using the eNOI?
The eNOI was designed to handle applications for NPDES
stormwater permits where EPA is the permitting authority. In
EPA Region 8, EPA is the permitting authority on Indian
country in Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Utah, and Wyoming, and on federal facilities within the state
of Colorado. Currently, the eNOI can be used to apply for
coverage under EPA's Construction General Permit.
Coverage under EPA's Construction General Permit is
required for all construction projects disturbing greater than or
equal to one acre of land. In spring of 2004, the eNOI will be
expanded to include industrial stormwater permit applications
as well.
What are the benefits to submitting an application online?
The eNOI provides as an alternative to mailing paper
applications into the EPA Notice of Intent Processing Center
in Washington, D.C. Compared to submitting a paper
application, the eNOI allows the applicant to obtain a permit
significantly faster. Paper applications must be sent in the
mail and reviewed by contractors in Washington, D.C. before
permit coverage can be granted. In addition, since the eNOI
performs a series of checks online, mistakes can be corrected
prior to submitting the application. With paper applications,
mistakes must be corrected by re-submitting the application in
the mail. The eNOI also provides a series of questions which
enable the applicant to better ascertain the specific permit
requirements.
Who can apply for a construction stormwater permit online?
To apply for a permit using the eNOI, you must be the
certifying official who is authorized to prepare and submit a
Notice of Intent for coverage under the stormwater
construction general permit. Construction projects may break
ground seven days from the time the application is received
provided that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service does not
deem that the project will adversely effect threatened or
endangered species.
There is pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is a society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea,
and music in its roar.
-Lord Byron
Where is the eNOI available?
The eNOI is available on EPA's web site. Information
about CDX registration, the eNOI process, and the eNOI
form can be obtained at
http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/stormwater/enoi.cfm
For more information, please contact Greg Davis at
(303) 312-6082 or davis.gregory@epa.gov
Water Quality Trading Policy
-Contributed by Stacey Eriksen, EPA Region 8
Earlier this year, EPA announced a Water Quality Trading
Policy to cut industrial, municipal and agricultural
discharges into the nation's waterways. The trading policy
seeks to support and encourage states and tribes in
developing and putting into place water quality trading
programs that implement the requirements of the Clean
Water Act and federal regulations. Increased flexibility is
expected to reduce the cost of improving and maintaining
the quality of the nation's waters. The policy will help
increase the pace and success of cleaning up impaired rivers,
streams and lakes throughout the country.
The agency provided more than $800,000 in fiscal year
2002 funding for technical and other support for 11 trading
projects around the country. The 11 pilots are listed on the
trading policy website at the end of this article.
Water quality trading uses economic incentives to improve
water quality. It allows one source to meet its regulatory
obligations by using pollutant reductions created by another
source that has lower pollution control costs. The standards
remain the same, but efficiency is increased and costs are
decreased.
In order for a water quality trade to take place, a pollution
reduction "credit" must first be created. EPA's water
quality trading policy states that sources should reduce
pollution loads beyond the level required by the most
stringent water quality based requirements in order to create
a pollution reduction "credit" that can be traded within the
watershed. For example, a landowner or a farmer could
create credits by changing cropping practices and planting
shrubs and trees next to a stream. A municipal wastewater
treatment plant then could use these credits to meet water
quality limits in its permit.
The policy could save the public hundreds of millions of
dollars by advancing more effective, efficient partnerships
to clean up and protect watersheds. The policy provides
incentives to both maintain high water quality where it
exists and to restore impaired waters. In addition, the policy
describes provisions of credible trading programs that are
consistent with the Clean Water Act and federal regulations.
An independent study of three watersheds in Minnesota,
Michigan and Wisconsin looked at the cost of controlling
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phosphorous loadings (World Resources Institute 2000).
This study found that the cost of reducing phosphorous from
controlling point sources - traditional pipe-in-the water
dischargers regulated by the Clean Water Act - to be
considerably higher than those based on trading between
point and non-point sources which are not regulated by the
Clean Water Act. Decreased phosphorus loadings
correspond to better water quality and fish habitat. For more
information log on to EPA's Trading Web site at
http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/trading.htm Water
quality trading questions and answers are at http://www.epa.
gov/owow/watershed/trading/policyfaq.html
Watershed Initiative
~Contributed by Stacey Eriksen, EPA Region 8
In May 2003, EPA announced the first round of nearly $ 15
million in grants to 20 watershed organizations selected as
part of the first round of the Watershed Initiative. The grants
averaged $700,000 each. The selected organizations were
chosen to receive the awards because their work plans were
the most likely to achieve environmental results in a
relatively short-time period. For example: over 70 percent of
the selected projects address agricultural pollution; 50 percent
address urban and industrial runoff; 50 percent address the
relationship between water quality and habitat restoration for
wildlife and endangered or threatened species and 30 percent
have projects aimed at the homeowner. Several projects will
study a more innovative, market-based approach to attaining
water quality and will test possibilities such as pollutant
trading and crop insurance.
For 2004, the Agency is continuing its focus on approaches
aimed to provide quick, measurable environmental results,
partnerships, innovation, and program integration. In
addition, this year will emphasize market-based approaches,
other socio-economic strategies, and the serious and growing
hypoxia problem facing the Gulf of Mexico.
Nominations by the country's governors and tribal
leaders for the second year of grants competition are due
to EPA on or before January 15,2004. Final selections of
the watershed grantees will be announced in the spring. To
access the Federal Register Notice and other information
about the Watershed Initiative go to:
http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/initiative/
Migrant Farm Worker Drinking Water:
Safe At The Well?
-By Michael Wenstrom, EPA Region 8
It was a hot summer's afternoon when the EPA van pulled
onto the road leading to a migrant farm worker camp in
northern Colorado. The Environmental Justice (EJ) Program
of EPA's Region 8 had been working for two years to
determine whether migrant farm workers in Colorado are
provided with clean, safe drinking water at their job sites.
And, this day, staff from the Environmental Justice Program
and EPA-Region 8 Lab were visiting a camp at the invitation
of a local grower to test the water in the well which served
the farm workers. Well water was drawn and sealed in clean
receptacles. The staff talked briefly with several workers
about their use of the well water, thanked the grower for his
cooperation and then left to return to Denver.
This was the first of a series of four camps at which the EJ
program was invited to sample the drinking water wells.
Over the summer of 2002, we visited the fields, sampled
water from wells, analyzed the results and discovered that, in
some cases, the water does not meet the federal Safe
Drinking Water Act standard for nitrate.
The group most at risk from high nitrate levels are infants (up
to about six months of age) and babies being carried by
expectant mothers. Nitrate at high levels interferes with the
ability of infants to metabolize oxygen, leading to "blue
baby" syndrome. This causes infants to develop a blue
coloration of their mucous membranes, and possible digestive
and respiratory problems.
Now that we know that we have a problem, how do we assure
that people who are currently at risk receive clean, safe
drinking water at the job site? And, what about other camps?
They have similar environmental concerns.
The well-testing activity raises many questions for EPA
Region 8: How many children are at risk from exposure to
high levels of nitrate in worker camps? How many camps are
there where nitrate (or other contaminants) are present in
concentrations above the federal standard in wells that are
unregulated? What is the most appropriate solution to the
problem of contaminated drinking water wells? Finally, how
do we help to make those solutions work? The answer to
these questions will be found only by working with our
partners in this process: EPA's Drinking Water Program, the
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the
U.S. Department of Labor, Colorado growers and the
agencies who serve migrant farm workers needs. We will be
working with all of these groups to identify creative and
practical solutions to the challenge—assuring that workers in
migrant farm worker camps have safe water to drink. Stay
tuned! For more information, please contact Michael
Wenstrom of the Environmental Justice Program at (303)
312-7009, or wenstrom.michael@epa.gov
Water Security and You
-Contributed by Jody Ostendorf, EPA Region 8
Local drinking water and wastewater systems may be targets
for terrorists and other would-be criminals wishing to disrupt
and cause harm to your community water supplies or
wastewater facilities.
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Because utilities are often located in isolated areas, drinking
water sources and wastewater collection systems may cover
large areas that are difficult to secure and patrol. Residents
can help by noticing and reporting any suspicious activity in
and around local water utilities. Residents interested in
protecting their water resources and community can join
together with law enforcement, neighborhood watch groups,
water suppliers, wastewater operators, and other local
public health officials. If you witness suspicious activities,
report them to your local law enforcement authorities.
Examples of suspicious activity might include:
a People dumping or discharging material to a water
reservoir
Q People climbing or cutting a utility fence
Q Unidentified truck or car parked or loitering near
waterway or facilities for no apparent reason
Q Suspicious opening or tampering with manhole
covers, buildings, or equipment
Q People climbing or on top of water tanks
Q People photographing or videotaping utility
facilities, structures or equipment
Q Strangers hanging around locks or gates.
Do not confront strangers. Instead, report suspicious
activities to local authorities.
When reporting an incident:
a State the nature of the incident
Q Identify yourself and your location
Q Identify location of activity
Q Describe any vehicle involved (color, make model,
license plate number).
For free outreach materials regarding water security, go to
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/securitv/flyers/index.html
For more information, please contact, Tracy Eagle
(303) 312-6245, or Marty Swickard (303) 312-7021, or
Gail Hill (303) 312-6497.
EPA's "Voluntary National Guidelines for
Management ofOn-site and Clustered
(Decentralized) Wastewater Treatment Systems"
are Now Available
-By Rich Muza, EPA Region 8
The performance of on-site and other decentralized
wastewater systems is a national issue of great concern.
(On-site/decentralized wastewater treatment systems treat
sewage from homes and businesses that are not connected
to a centralized wastewater treatment plant. In the 1997
"Response to Congress on Use of Decentralized
Wastewater Treatment Systems," EPA determined that with
the technology now available, adequately managed
decentralized systems can protect public health and the
environment as well as provide long-term solutions for the
nation's wastewater needs.
The Voluntary National Guidelines are a set of
recommended practices needed to raise the level of
performance of on-site/decentralized wastewater systems
through improved management programs. Five separate
"model programs" are presented as a progressive series,
with management requirements becoming more rigorous as
the wastewater system technologies become more complex,
or as the sensitivity of the environment increases. Each
model program includes program elements and program
activities needed to achieve the management objectives.
The five model management programs are: 1) homeowner
awareness, 2) maintenance contracts, 3) operating permits,
4) responsible management entity operation and
maintenance, and 5) responsible management entity
ownership. These model programs are not intended to
supercede existing federal, state, tribal, and local laws and
regulations but rather be a complement to them.
The Voluntary National Guidelines were released by EPA in
March 2003 and are available electronically at
http://www.epa.gov/owm/mtb/decent/index.htm or by
contacting Rich Muza at (303) 312-6595 or
muza.richard@epa.gov
The clearest way into the universe is
through a forest wilderness.
-John Muir
EPA Publishes New Guidelines for the National
Nonpoint Source (NFS) Program
-Contributed by Stacey Eriksen, EPA Region 8
EPA has published new guidelines for the National
Nonpoint Source (NFS) Program which is implemented
under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act. These
guidelines, which began in fiscal year 2004, completely
replace all previous NFS grants guidances. The guidelines
focus approximately one-half of Section 319 grant dollars
on remediating impaired waters by developing total
maximum daily loads (TMDLs), and implementating
watershed-based plans. These plans provide an analytical
framework for:
• assessing the sources of water pollution;
• estimating the amount of pollutant reduction needed to
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achieve water quality standards;
• identifying the management measures whose
implementation will enable those reductions to be
achieved;
• and identifying financial and regulatory tools, as
appropriate, that will enable the watershed plan's goals to
be achieved.
These guidelines were published in the Federal Register on
Oct. 23, 2003 and are posted on EPA's NFS web site at:
http://www.ep a. gov/owow/nps/
Web Resources
~Contributed by Stacey Eriksen, EPA Region 8,
and Roger Dean, EPA Region 8
NCSE's 4th National Conference on Science, Policy and the
Environment: Water for a Sustainable and Secure Future will
be held on January 29-30, 2004 at the Ronald Reagan Building
and International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.
The 4th national conference will bring together a diverse group
of stakeholders—both specialists and non-specialists in water
resources united by their common concern over issues of water
sustainability. Leading scientists, policy makers, government
officials, business executives, and others will explore the role
of science in achieving sustainable relationships among water,
people, and the environment.
The opening keynote address will be delivered by William K.
Reilly, who will draw upon his experience as President and
CEO of Aqua International Partners, Chairman of the World
Wildlife Fund, and Former Administrator of the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.
Visit http://www.NCSEonline.org to register online, submit
an abstract for the poster session, read pre-conference
materials, obtain the latest program updates, and view links to
travel and lodging options. Please direct general conference
questions to conference@NCSEonline.org To reserve an
exhibition space or to learn more about the exhibition, please
visit the conference website or send an email to
exhibition@NCSEonline.org This conference is co-
sponsored by EPA.
Report Takes Detailed Look at Farm Conservation Easements
"A National View of Agricultural Easement Programs" is the
first report in a series to be issued from a recent study
providing an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of
agricultural easement programs undertaken in the United
States. The report profiles 46 agricultural easement programs
in 15 states—nearly half of all publicly funded farmland
protection programs in the nation. The 46 programs studied
have spent a total of $1.8 billion to protect 887,000 acres on
5,800 farms.
The study on agricultural easement programs, conducted by
American Farmland Trust and the Agricultural Issues
Center, University of California, in collaboration with Farm
Foundation, finds that use of this land conservation tool is
most prevalent in suburban and semi-rural parts of major
metropolitan areas, counties with populations of more than
100,000 that have been experiencing rapid population
growth for years. To learn more about the study and view
the report online, go to
http://www.aftresearch.org/PDRdatabase/NAPidx.htm
Society for Range Management
Photo site for the Society for Range Management. It has
many before-and-after pictures of rangeland spanning many
years in several states. Of special note is the collection from
CSU which has over 700 wildlife pictures from the Garst
Wildlife Collection. The site is at http://www.rangelands.
org/links rangeland photographs.shtml
The video loan library, which can be borrowed for use in
presentations and education, is found at
http://www.rangelands.org/education video.shtml
The site for Coordinated Resource Management, what it is
and how it is used for any resource management dispute
resolution, is at
http://www.rangelands.org/education crm.shtml
National River Restoration Science Synthesis. Information
about the program and who's involved is located at
http://www.amrivers.org/feature/riverrestoration.htm
Recommended EPA Water Resources
Water Where You Live
Click on a state in the map to find water information
provided by EPA. http://www.epa.gov/ow/states.html
Index of Watershed Indicators: Contaminated Sediments
Certain chemicals in water tend to bind to particles and
collect in bottom sediments.
http://www.epa.gov/iwi/1999sept/iv4 usmap.html
Water on Tap: A Consumer's Guide to the Nation's
Drinking Water Report provides information about the
quality of U.S. drinking water safety.
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/wot/introtap.html
Water: What You Can Do
Information to raise public awareness and encourage
involvement in water quality issues.
http://www.epa.gov/water/citizen.html
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Volunteer Monitoring
Tina Laidlaw (406) 457-5016
laidlaw.tina@epa.gov
Wetlands
Paul Mclver (303) 312-6056
mciver.paul@epa.gov
Watersheds and Community-
Based Environmental Protection
Marc Alston (303) 312-6356
alston.marc@epa.gov
Ground Water
Darcy Campbell (303) 312-6709
campbell. darcy @epa. gov
Nonpoint Source Pollution
Peter Monahan (303) 312-6946
monahan.peter@epa.gov
EPA Region 8 Environmental
Information Service Center
1-800-227-8917
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