AGENDA

Source Water Collaborative Meeting

Conference Call 1-866-299-3188 Code: 2025643889

Monday, November 19, 2012

1:00-2:30PM EST

Meeting Objectives

  • Discuss opportunities and barriers to leveraging Safe Drinking Water and Clean Water Act programs for protection and restoration of drinking water sources
  • Provide input to EPA on developing a Source Water Protection Initiative that addresses collaboration opportunities between SDWA and CWA programs
  • Identify contributions that SWC and its members can make to CWA/SDWA collaboration

Agenda

10 minutesWelcome & Introductions

Christene Jennings, Salter>Mitchell

25 minutesSource Water Protection Initiative: Input on Key Initial Questions

Elizabeth Corr, Associate Director, Drinking Water Protection Division, EPA

Yu-Ting Guilaran, Associate Director, Assessment & Watershed Protection Division, EPA

Background

Discussion Questions

  • What should our goals & objectives be? Do these proposed goals & objectives take us in the right direction?
  • Proposed Goal Statement: Better drinking water source water quality for both surface water and ground water 20 years from now OR Better quality drinking water sources, both surface and ground water,now and in the future
  • Proposed Objectives: EPA and our partners will increase focus on drinking water sources to better protect human health and minimize the burden of new or additional drinking water treatment costs
  • Are there actions, approaches or problems that we should focus on first? Such as:
  • contaminants of concern
  • geographic focus
  • other priority-setting criteria?

How can EPA engage stakeholders, including the public, in protecting their sources of drinking water? What are the tools we should consider to reach people?

o40 minutesWhere To Focus Efforts: Potential Opportunities for SDWA- CWA Collaboration

CWA Tools, Presented by Jim Taft, SWC Steering Committee Co-Chair

Facilitated by Christene Jennings, Salter>Mitchell

Discussion Questions

  • Within this list of potential areas for collaboration, where are the barriers and ripe opportunities in each of these CWA “tool” areas?
  • Which of these areas should the SWC – either in whole, or particular SWC members -- take on as a key focus?
  • Which of these areas would your organization be most interested in?
  • What might be missing from this list?

15 minutesNext Steps

  • Next steps with EPA Source Water Initiative
  • Next steps with SWC process:
  • Developing a workgroup to flesh out specific next steps
  • Individual SWC members reply to Jim Taft with your organization’s additional feedback on questions in background document by November 30th