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Presented at the NABS Annual meeting, Athens, Georgia, 2003
in Conservation Ecology
A pilot project to formalize a program that implements the Clean Water Act from beginning to end
C.R. Anderson1 and M. Burns2. 1B.U.G.S. Consulting, 2Southern Ute Indian Tribe
Protocols available to Water Quality Managers for implementing the Clean Water Act are disjointed. As a pilot project for the Southern Ute Indian Tribe we have formalized an inclusive program that enables environmental, business and industrial managers as well as politicians to better comprehend the processes of environmental monitoring, assessment and remediation. Our protocol enables concerned sectors to design and implement a more complete program including: involvement from the beginning, better understanding of their responsibilities for preventing potential stressors from entering streams, and perception of the end product. We have identified four main components that are necessary for implementing the Clean Water Act. They are: 1) initiating a monitoring program to identify whether streams are becoming impaired; 2) conducting an assessment to identify stressor variables and their sources; 3) initiating the regulatory/educational process to identify and educate responsible parties, determine their legal responsibilities and identify sources of funds for remediation; and 4) post-remediation monitoring to determine whether a stream is recovering, the proper stressor variables were identified and remediation was adequate.
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