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DELIVERING TIMELY WATER QUALITY INFORMATION TO YOUR COMMUNITY. THE LAKE ACCESS-MINNEAPOLIS PROJECT
Citation:
Petersen*, D, R Axler, J. Barten, J. Goin, C. Hagley, G. Host, B. Liukonnen, C. Owen, B. Peichel, E. Ruzycki, B. Vlach, N. Will, AND B. Munson. DELIVERING TIMELY WATER QUALITY INFORMATION TO YOUR COMMUNITY. THE LAKE ACCESS-MINNEAPOLIS PROJECT. EPA/625/R-00/013, 2001.
Impact/Purpose:
information
Description:
This report is a summary of the near-real-time water quality-monitoring project conducted by a consortium of interested parties in the greater Minneapolis area. It was funded by an EPA program known as EMPACT (Environmental Monitoring, Public Access, and Community Tracking). In 1996, president Clinton directed USEPA to create the EMPACT program to bring people time relevant environmental information they could understand and use every day. To make EMPACT more effective, EPA is partnering with the NOAA, USGS, DOI, and NPR. EMPACT is a new approach to working with communities to collect, manage, and present environmental information. Currently, environmental information projects have been initiated in 61 of the 86 EMPACT designated metropolitan areas. This report is a how-to manual designed to allow other communities to implement the tools and techniques developed by the Minneapolis project, and ot share in their experience.