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Charlie Smith
Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, Ground Water Planning Branch
PO Box 10385
Jackson, Mississippi 39289-1305
Phone: 601-961-5395
Email: charles_smith@deq.state.ms.us
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Sole Source Aquifer Memorandum of Understanding Between USDA's Rural Development, Mississippi State Office, and EPA Region 4
Memorandum of Understanding that identifies the types of transportation or highway projects that will be forwarded to EPA for evaluation and comment in Region 4.
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| Title: Mississippi: Choctaw Reservation |
| Subtitle: Source Water Protection Addresses Well Abandonment and Educates Residents |
| Case Study Type:
Protection
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| Description: On the Choctaw Reservation, MS, three wells serve the Tribe's 2,300 residents. Choctaw environmental staff and citizens are developing a SWP plan that focuses on preventing contamination from abandoned wells and public education. (The source water assessment also identified gas stations, septic systems, improperly capped wells, Laundromats/dry cleaners, recycling centers, and body shops as potential threats.) SWP activities will include: monthly educational presentations at schools and in the community, ordinances to address proper storage of hazardous materials and well abandonment, SWP brochures and articles in a Choctaw-language community newsletter, and SWP training for Choctaw environmental staff. |
| Title: Mississippi: Upper Pearl River Basin |
| Subtitle: Geo-Spatial Tools Can Support Leadership in Integrating Source Water and Watershed Protection |
| Case Study Type:
Protection
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| Description: Mississippi's Upper Pearl River Basin served as the model for a project to provide guidance on SWP implementation. The project addresses the use of geo-spatial tools such as GIS, GPS, and remote sensing data to support integrated watershed management. Elements of the project include merging the efforts of local programs with those of larger agencies with land use planning and zoning authority, to encourage collaborative decision-making, stakeholder involvement, adaptive management, shared control, and public education. The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, NRCS, Mississippi Soil and Water Conservation Commission, and the Mississippi Water Resources Research Institute contributed to the project. |
| Title: Pennsylvania: Telford |
| Subtitle: Development of Source Water Protection Options for Individual Towns |
| Case Study Type:
Protection
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| Description: The Borough of Telford, Pennsylvania, population 5,500, is located in Montgomery County, northwest of Philadelphia. Telford has coordinated its efforts with several adjacent watershed communities in both Bucks and Montgomery counties. On January 24, 1996, the TBA organized its initial meeting regarding watershed protection, partly in response to incidences of TCE pollution in some of its wells. Representatives from five other towns within the Telford watershed were invited in order to provide a comprehensive, resource- driven approach to Telford's water protection program. In each of these municipalities, there were potential sources of contamination to one or more of Telford's wells.
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