| About Us | |
| Mission Statement | |
| To assure Oregonians safe drinking water. The program focuses resources on the areas of highest public health benefit and promotes voluntary compliance with drinking water standards. It emphasizes prevention of contamination through source protection, technical assistance to water systems, and training of water system operators. | |
| Organization | |
| Annual Performance Measures The Drinking Water Program administers and enforces drinking water quality standards for public water systems in the State of Oregon. What We're Doing:
Oregon's Safe Drinking Water Benchmark and Yearly Reports How the Drinking Water Program measures progress towards safe drinking water. Water & Wastewater System Operator Certification (111K) A joint report by the Health Services and the Department of Environmental Quality on certification of water and wastewater operators. The Drinking Water Advisory Committee (DWAC) was formed in 1981 by the Health Services Administrator to assist in the development of new regulations and advise Health Services on drinking water issues and Program design and administration. This committee is a key element of the Program and its membership represents a broad base of organizations with interests in drinking water. Members of DWAC (9K) State/EPA AgreementOregon has "primacy" for enforcement of the Safe Drinking Water Act and each year Oregon and EPA agree on the activities to be accomplished with money provided by the federal grant.This document, FY 2000 State/EPA Grant Application(63K), contains the details of that agreement. The attachments that are a part of that document are not included due to format inconsistencies. Some of them can be found elsewhere on this site. More information on the history, organization, philosophy and guarantees of the DWP is also online. The Difference We're Making:
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