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Title: North Carolinas


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North Carolinas Experience Implementing Source
Water Protection
Jay Frick Source Water Protection Program
Coordinator NC Department of Environment and
Natural Resources
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Outline
  • Typical SWP Challenges

What is NC facing?
  • Current Strategies

What has worked in NC?
  • RCAPs Contribution

What action can you take?
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Challenges to NC Drinking Water
  • 1. Rapid population growth
  • quantity (competing uses for limited resource)
  • quality (waste loads and contamination)
  • 2. Existing and emerging contaminants
  • 3. Increasing cost of providing safe water

4. Availability of water
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NC Population Projection
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Emerging Contaminants
Landmark USGS Study of 2000
  • 139 streams tested for 95 organic chemicals.
  • In 80 of the streams, one or more pharmaceutical
    was detected.
  • Acetaminophen 24
  • Steroids hormones 16
  • Blood pressure medication 13
  • Codeine 11
  • Antibiotics antimicrobials 10
  • Ibuprofen 10

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Compounds detected in NC waters
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Fire retardants and plasticizers
  • Fragrances and flavorants
  • Pesticides
  • Antibiotics
  • Disinfectants
  • Other EC

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Drinking water protection is an economic issue.
  • The cost of clean drinking water is increasing.
  • Pollution prevention is the most effective
    approach to ensuring safe and sustainable
    drinking water. SWP Planning leads to
    prevention.

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Water Availability a precious commodity
affected by the drought
March 18, 2008
August 20, 2009
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Representation of Urgency
Urgency, U (t), dictates the action we take
Population, P (t) Contaminants, C (t) Cost,
(t) Availability, A (t)
Then U (t) P x C x x A
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Proactive
Reactive
Urgency
U (t) P x C x x A
t
Time
f
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Current Strategies
  • Economic incentives and GIS tools
  • Integrating SWP into other state programs
  • Source water protection planning
  • Effort at the local/community level

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NC Loan Program for Land Acquisition
  • 1.6 M available per year
  • 1 fixed interest rate
  • 20-year repayment term
  • Comprehensive SWP planning required

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Lincoln County SWP Highlights
Land acquisition for conservation. Create
a SWP overlay district. Enact stricter
stormwater ordinances. Assume buffer
enforcement responsibility. Reduce sewage
lift station spills.
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New approach. . . Partnerships with other NC
agencies
Goal Use assessment results to prioritize
activities
  • Raises awareness of SWP objectives.
  • SWP activities are instigated by other agencies.
  • Contracts and logistics are maintained by other
    agencies.
  • Creates solutions for stakeholders developing
    local SWP plans.

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2 types of successful partnerships
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An Illustration . . . Whos happy?
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30,000
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Source Water Protection Planning Successful
Examples
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Kerr Lake plan addresses
  • Public education campaign
  • Illegal stream dumping
  • Incentives program
  • Land acquisition

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  • Population served 130,000
  • Yadkin river intake.

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Davidson Waters Focus Areas
  • Zoning adopt new water quality policies
  • Assist start-up of Yadkin Riverkeepers
  • Education and outreach

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Population served 5,500 Agricultural
Concerns Quantity Issues Stormwater Concerns
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Vision Where do we want to go from here?
Autonomous SWP at the community level
State Programs and Partnerships
National Effort
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Communication and access to 3 groups
  • Local officials/Land planners
  • Watershed Organizations
  • Land Conservancies

End products and deliverables
  • Web-based toolkit
  • Incentives and motivational factors
  • Demonstration projects/success stories
  • Policy alignment proposals

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What action can you take?
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NC RCAP Workshop for SWP Planning
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Why focus on SWP Planning?
  • You already know the local players
  • Cost is minimal
  • Procedures and templates already exist
  • Efforts are readily supported by the public
  • It creates an opportunities to solve problems

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Local Official
Key player
RCAP Liaison
Local Champion
Someone with particular expertise or connections
1. Get 2 people interested 2. Make it easy 3.
Use the media
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Thank You for helping communities protect their
water resources.
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