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Drinking Water Activities
Representative activities in this focus area include:
- Needs Assessment, Regional Planning: Conduct regular regional needs assessment meetings to review progress to date, assess status of programs, identify gaps and revise LOGIC model.
- Conferences: This year we will host the bi-annual 2011 Northeast Private Well Symposium in Southbury, CT on November 14 and 15. The 2009 Northeast Private Well Water Symposium was held November 16 & 17, 2009 at the Holiday Inn By The Bay in Portland Maine. One hundred people attended the program representing a diverse audience of Federal, state, and local agency and organization staff, university researchers, Extension faculty and staff, graduate students, private non-profit organizations, and private sector professionals. The majority of participants came from the Northeast. In addition, professionals attended from across the nation, including Illinois, Maryland, and Virginia.
The goal of the Symposium was to bring together professionals working in the field of private well protection and provide the opportunity to communicate current research, share programming and educational approaches and material, and to interact with each other in an effort to reduce the risks associated with groundwater use to private well water users.
At least 98% of respondents in the evaluation summary agreed that the symposium provided an effective avenue for exchanging ideas about private well water issues and reported a significant increase in knowledge in at least one of the symposium topic areas.
- New Educational Programs, Demonstrations: Adapt educational approaches from other regions, including down-well camera videos into presentations and on the web and the web-based Water Test Interpreter (University of Nevada). Revise and update private well testing brochure developed for Region 1 and adapt for Region 2.
- Trainings, Workshops: Offer training workshops targeted towards stakeholders. Topics include: proper siting, construction and maintenance of private wells; water quality testing and treatment; available financing; and appropriate rules and regulations for well development, maintenance and testing.
- eXtension: Serve on core leadership team for and coordinate regional resources into the eXtension Drinking Water and Human Health CoP proposed in March 2008 by the CSL.
