Like many cities around the country, Columbus, Georgia, is conducting watershed studies to comply with US water laws including both the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. The latter requires States and water purveyors to develop Source Water Assessment and Protection Programs. The purpose of these programs is to build a prevention barrier to drinking water contamination. The basic protocol involves: inventories of potential hazards; water intake susceptibility evaluations; and, strategies to prevent contamination. All of these efforts must provide opportunities for the public to help guide the decision-making process. The Columbus Water Works (CWW) has taken a regional approach with interstate stakeholders to accomplish compliance with these two laws. The results of these studies will provide guidance to other communities. Findings indicate that watershed monitoring requires sound-science data to properly represent or model the dynamics of the watershed and to implement a protection strategy that provides the desired prevention barrier and is also able to measure watershed restoration. Includes 3 references, figures.
| Edition : | Vol. - No. |
| File Size : | 1
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| Number of Pages : | 12 |
| Published : | 06/01/2001 |
