Protect Your Community
Protect Your Community
Through Education
Putting source water protection measures into action is called implementation.
Implementation can involve both regulatory and non-regulatory approaches to safeguarding your source of drinking water.
Explore the links below for some inexpensive ways to educate your utility users, family, and neighbors!
- Create a Facebook page for your system
- Host household hazardous waste collection event
- Present educational outreach at local fairs, Earth Day Events, etc.
- Encourage proper disposal of pharmaceuticals
- Encourage proper use of fertilizers
- Host a collection event for unused or expired pesticides
- Create literature for your residents regarding water conservation and protection
- Host an agricultural chemical container recycling collection event
- Perform source water related activities in local schools
- Mark storm drains with Dump No Waste plaques
- Develop a source water protection page on your city/system website
- Post flyers and brochures at the City Hall, Library, and other public buildings
- Post Drinking Water Protection Area signs around your source water protection area
- Become a member of the Groundwater Foundation
- Coordinate with neighboring systems and upstream communities regarding source protection
- Reach out to private well owners
- Host a well testing event for private well owners
- Encourage proper septic maintenance
- Make your Consumer Confidence Report attractive and easier to read
- Create a public service announcement
- Join IDWARN to become a member of a water/wastewater emergency network
