Source Water Assessment
for the Cache la Poudre River

An EPA National Pilot

Communication

Project staff have been working closely with key personnel of the City of Fort Collins Utilities; Source Water Assessment and Protection Program (SWAP), Water Quality Control Division, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment; Office of Ground Water and Drinking Water, U.S. EPA; and Ecosystem Protection Program, Region VIII EPA. These individuals represent the core of the technical advisory committee. Project staff have been communicating regularly and frequently with these central parties by telephone, E-mail, memoranda, and this web site.

These central parties agreed that the Colorado SWAP Design Team (DT) and Technical Advisory Team (TAT) would serve in effect as a more broadly representative Project Technical Advisory Committee. The Project Manager has served continuously as a member of each of these teams that have been supporting development of the state's SWAP Program. Project staff have been using substantive discussion and products from these collective activities to establish the overall parameters for the national pilot SWA. In addition, the Project Manager, through membership on these teams, is able to obtain guidance from its members collectively and individually on an ad hoc basis. The central parties agreed that appointment and formation of yet another SWAP committee, essentially of many of the same individuals and organizations serving on the DT and TAT, would be ineffective and inefficient.

In addition and related, the Project Manager has met or teleconferenced with other potential stakeholders in CLP source waters (e.g., City of Greeley, Arapahoe-Roosevelt National Forest). Separate from the Phase 1 scope-of-work, but in keeping with its overall strategic vision, the Project team is initiating a project to conduct an assessment and initiate the involvement of a comprehensive range of Cache la Poudre stakeholders in protecting their source water. This stakeholder involvement activity, will parallel future technical work of this national pilot source water assessment.

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