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Oregon (Region 10)

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Links for Oregon

• Oregon Department of Environmental Quality: Drinking Water Protection Program

   State Drinking Water Protection Web Sites

• Oregon: State and Local Drinking Water Information - Provides information about state drinking water offices, local drinking water suppliers, and trends among drinking water systems.

   Publications by Other Organizations

• Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development: Water Quality Model Code and Guidebook - This guidebook designed to aid local government with integrating Oregon's Transportation and Growth Management Program's "smart development" codes with local program ordinances designed to help achieve water quality objectives.

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Publications for Oregon

Portland Water Quality Amendments ( PDF 7 pp , 15 K ) Wallowa County Watershed Protection Area Zoning Ordinance ( PDF 8 pp , 20 K )

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Case Studies for Oregon

Title: Oregon: Salem

Subtitle: Salem Works with US Forest Service to Protect its Watershed

Case Study Type: Assessment and Protection

Description: Salem is the capital of Oregon and its third largest city. Its 108,000 residents are supplied with drinking water from the north portion of the Santiam River, which has a watershed of 490,000 acres stretching from the Cascade Mountains to the city's intake on Geren Island (in the middle of the river) in the Town of Stayton. The City of Salem does not own any of the land within the watershed upstream of its intakes. The United States Forest Service and the Oregon Department of Forestry together own 80 percent of the land in the watershed; the remainder is privately owned.





Title: Oregon: Southern Willamette Valley, Lane County

Subtitle: Comprehensive Planning Confronts Development Threat to Oregon Source Water

Case Study Type: Protection

Description: The Southern Willamette Valley, OR's water supply is threatened by rapid development. To mitigate the effects of development, the Regional Technical Advisory Committee (RTAC) and the Regional Policy Advisory Board (RPAB) jointly devised three possible growth scenarios for review and eventual use in planning. Informed by GIS and baseline data analysis of source waters, each scenario weighs water quality impacts and protection goals with the interests of economic development, housing, transportation, and community services. After evaluating these scenarios, RTAC and RPAB will solicit public comments and identify a Preferred Growth Scenario that best meets community needs and minimizes threats. This in turn will inform a Regional Growth Management strategy that, through preventative measures, would direct local development to have the lowest impact on water quality.