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Source
Water Protection
See our Source Water Protection Technical Assistance area
Check out Pennsylvania Rural Water Association's (PRWA's) website designed as a clearinghouse for wellhead and watershed protection information for lots of helpful information at www.sourcewaterprotection.org
The Trust for
Public
Land
has recently released:  Path to Protection -
Ten Strategies for Successful Source Water Protection
Over the past five years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water funded five national nonprofit organizations to launch source water demonstration projects in communities around the country. The purpose of the projects was to build on state Source Water Assessment Programs (SWAPs) in order to move communities from planning to implementing protection for drinking water sources. Successful pilot projects could then be replicated by state and local governments and water suppliers around the country.
In order to glean the lessons learned and identify best practices, the Trust for Public Land led a joint review of the five grantees’ source protection demonstration projects during the spring and summer of 2004.
The Path to Protection booklet summarizes findings based on experiences of the five pilot projects and proposes ten strategies that will help put more state and local governments on the path to protection.
Download Path To Protection: http://www.tpl.org/download_path_2_protection.cfm
 The
Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water now has a new page
dedicated to our new posters and videos. Includes
the Source Water Protection - It’s In Our Hands poster
and brochure, as well as the new 2003 National DrinkingWater
Regulations poster and pocket guide. Plus other great outreach
posters and videos, with all the ordering information you need. http://www.epa.gov/safewater/
publicoutreach/posters_vids.html
Source
Water Bibliography
EPA has just released the first Source Water Bibliography
on CD with materials gathered from all over the U.S. Technical materials,
outreach materials, and program guidance are available along with
Fact Sheets, case studies, regulations, web pages, and videos. Organized
by subject area, the CD contains listing of resources in 3 formats:
MS Word, WordPerfect, and PDF, with search functions to locate information.
Download the Summer 2003 version directly from our site:
Bibliography
of SWP Materials (in PDF)
Bibliography of SWP Materials
(in Word)
or the CD,
titled "Annotated Bibliography of Source Water Protection
Materials," can be ordered as # EPA 816-F-03-010.
Most EPA materials are available from the National Service Center
for Environmental Publications (NSCEP) at:
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP)
P.O. Box 42419
Cincinnati, OH 45242
Telephone: (800) 490-9198
Fax: (513) 489-8695.
Agriculture
and Water A 2004 look by USGS
Stormwater
runoff from agriculture represents one of Pennsylvania's
largest source water protection challenges. It is
important to keep in mind these pesticides and fertilizers obey
the laws of physics, and don't just "go away." Check
out the latest information by USGS
(9/2004) about the
transport and fate of selected agricultural chemicals in
various agricultural and environmental settings.
"About
a half million tons of pesticides, 12 million tons
of nitrogen, and 4 million tons of phosphorus fertilizer
are applied annually to crops in the continental United States
(Heimlich, 2003; Gianessi and Silvers, 2000)." "Although progress has
been made in reducing pollution from point sources and nonpoint
sources (including agriculture), agriculture is the "leading
source of remaining impairments in the Nation's rivers and
lakes" (Heimlich, 2003).
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