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Water Headlines for July 26, 2006Benjamin H. Grumbles Water Headlines is a weekly on-line publication that announces publications, policies, and activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Water. In This Week’s Water Headlines:
National Dredging Team and SIMOR Announce Conference on Sediment Management in WatershedsThe National Dredging Team and the Subcommittee on Integrated Management of Ocean Resources (SIMOR) are sponsoring a conference on Managing Sediments in the Watershed: Bringing Dredged Material and Watershed Managers Together August 29-31 in Portland, Oregon. The conference is intended to identify steps needed to include dredged material management in watershed plans and to identify steps needed to include a broader watershed perspective in dredged material management. Dredged material and sediment management that occurs outside watershed planning misses opportunities that could improve navigation, flood and storm damage reduction efforts, and environmental quality in water resource projects. Effective dredged material and sediment management requires open and early communication among federal and state dredged material regulators, watershed planners, and other interested parties in order to:
The conference will take place August 29-31, 2006 at the Doubletree Hotel in Portland, Oregon. For more information contact Molly Madden at madden.molly@epa.gov. To register please visit http://www.sedimentsinwatershed.com/index.php. New Tool to Enhance the Technical Sustainability of Drinking Water Utilities: Total Coliform Rule: A Handbook for Small Noncommunity Water Systems serving less than 3,300 persons: Part of the Simple Tools for Effective PerformanceThis new handbook will help owners and operators of small drinking water systems, technical assistance providers, and state drinking water personnel to better understand the Total Coliform Rule provisions under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). It is well known that small public noncommunity water systems labor under many constraints not faced by larger systems. Financing limits, shortages of skilled personnel and physical isolation are among the most critical problems facing small utilities. These systems, in turn, are supported by outside water professionals: engineers, scientists, regulators, technical assistance providers and others. Each entity needs continued education and training that target its particular role in the reliable provision of safe drinking water at a reasonable cost and minimal burden. EPA has developed this up-to-date reference handbook with the intent of enhancing system capacity for prolonged infrastructure sustainability. This document and additional tools to help small water systems are available on EPA’s website at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/smallsys/ssinfo.htm. Waterborne Disease Research Summaries PublishedThe Office of Research and Development (ORD) and the Office of Water have published a series of papers summarizing the research conducted on waterborne disease in the last 10 years. The work includes research supported by EPA and others and is limited to gastrointestinal illness as the health effect of concern. The 1996 Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments (SWDA) mandated the Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention would conduct five waterborne disease studies and develop a national estimate of waterborne disease. The EPA, CDC and other authors produced a series of papers that reviews the state of the science, methods to make a national estimate of waterborne disease, models that estimate waterborne illness and recommendations to fill existing data gaps. These papers represent the fulfillment of our SDWA requirement. The papers also represent the most comprehensive review conducted in the last 25 years and the first publication of models and their results developed to estimate waterborne illness on a national level. The papers have been published in the July/August 2006 supplement of Journal of Water and Health. The publications and more information can be found at: http://www.epa.gov/nheerl/articles/2006/waterborne_disease.html. Subscribe to Water HeadlinesPlease forward this message to your friends and colleagues who share an interest in water-related issues and would like to hear from EPA’s Office of Water. To subscribe to the Water Headlines listserve: Send an email message, leave the subject line blank, and address it to: In the body of the message write: Subscribe Water Headlines first name last name (Please leave one blank space between each word, do not include any other message, and use your actual name- i.e. Subscribe Water Headlines Robert Jones)
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