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Water Headlines for September 6, 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:
New Best Practices Guides for Small Drinking Water SystemsCertified Operator and Owners of small drinking water systems serving fewer than 10,000 people will now have quick reference guides to help them operate sustainable drinking water systems that deliver safe drinking water to their customers. Topics of the guides include best practices for general operating practices, maintenance of distribution systems, vital record keeping, and building good working relationships with decision makers. Information and copies of these guides are available on EPA’s Web site at http://www.epa.gov/safewater/smallsys/ssinfo.htm. Hard copies are available upon request through the Safe Drinking Water Hotline (telephone number 1-800-426-9198). New Guide Highlights Incentives for Agriculture Water Quality TradingBy selling the amounts of nutrients or sediment reduced by conservation practices, agricultural producers are finding opportunities to get paid for stewardship activities through water quality trading. A new manual, Getting Paid for Stewardship: An Agricultural Community Water Quality Trading Guide, helps interested partners get started. The guide has information for producers who want to develop a trading program in their watershed, provides a basic understanding of trading and includes contact information. Produced under an EPA cooperative agreement with the Conservation Technology Information Center, the guide is intended for agriculture advisers and/or technical service providers. Copies of the document can be found on the web at: http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/watershed/trading.htm . OSV Bold’s SurveyThe OSV Bold’s third Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Survey for 2006 will begin this week from Pensacola, Florida. The purpose of this survey is to characterize the magnitude and variability of physical and biological processes in the water column and sediments along coastal Louisiana in early fall. Through this two week Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia Survey, the EPA Gulf of Mexico Program Office, Office of Research and Development, and EPA Office of Water are building upon past efforts and have initiated plans for a framework that guides the science needed to address hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico. Data from this and other seasonal surveys provide new insight into oceanographic conditions during times typically preceding peak river discharges when hypoxic conditions in bottom waters are either not present or just beginning to develop. This data will also aid in the development of a high resolution 3-D model of the hypoxic zone. For more information visit www.epa.gov/bold. 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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