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Water Headlines for April 5, 2007Benjamin 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:
EPA, Earth Conservation Corps, Promote a Litter-Free Anacostia RiverThe U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Earth Conservation Corps (ECC) launched a month-long anti-litter campaign that will feature posters on Metro buses and in Metro Rail stations. Designed by ECC, the posters seek to educate and enlist the public in helping to restore the health and vitality of the Anacostia River by encouraging commuters not to litter. “Everyone has a role in restoring and protecting the Anacostia watershed. Clean streets and green parks will lead to a healthier, litter-free river in the nation’s capital,” said Benjamin H. Grumbles, EPA’s assistant administrator for Water. Each year, volunteer groups in the D.C. area organize clean-up events to collect tons of trash from the Anacostia River, which runs through Washington, D.C. In early 2006, EPA partnered with ECC, a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit youth development and environmental service organization, to launch an anti-litter campaign poster contest for ECC members. As part of the contest, teams of ECC members were asked to design posters focused on curbing littering among neighbors and users of the Anacostia River. The winning poster was designed by ECC members Ricardo Moore, Latrice Shorts, Katrina Washington, Daryl Wallace and Hollis Wright. Its message states: “An Anacostia River That’s Clean Doesn’t Have to Be a Dream.” Throughout April, the poster will be displayed on the exterior of 20 Metro buses, inside 200 Metro buses, and displayed in five Metro stations, including L’Enfant Plaza, Anacostia, Stadium-Armory, Tenleytown-American University and Farragut West Metro stops. Founded in 1989, the ECC provides professional development and environmental training to disadvantaged young people ages 17 to 25 from the Washington Metro area. It motivates these youth to be leaders, engaging communities in education and service focused on restoring the Anacostia River. For more information please visit: http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/standards/training.htm#edu. 2007 Fish Forum Coming in JulyEPA and the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention are co-sponsoring the 2007 Fish Forum on July 23-26 in Portland. Health and environmental officials will join other participants to talk about issues related to assessing and managing health risks associated with the consumption of contaminants in fish. Topics will include sampling and analysis of contaminants of emerging concern; risk assessment, toxicology, and chemical profiles; risk management and communication; health benefits; and biomonitoring. A poster session will open on the evening of Monday, July 23. You can get information about submitting posters (deadline is June 1) or registering for the conference by visiting EPA's web site at http://epa.gov/waterscience/fish/forum/. New EPA Web Module Offers Watershed Outreach TrainingEPA's Watershed Academy recently posted a free, updated online training module on "Getting In Step: A Guide to Conducting Watershed Outreach Campaigns." This module offers a tested step-by-step system to help local governments, watershed organizations and others maximize the effectiveness of public outreach campaigns to help solve nonpoint source pollution problems and protect local waterways. The module is based on EPA's free, downloadable outreach guide "Getting in Step: Guide for Conducting Watershed Outreach Campaigns" (published in Dec. 2003 and posted at: http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/outreach/documents/). To view the new Getting in Step online training module, visit http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/gettinginstep/ . Approximately 50 other free online Watershed Academy training modules are available at: http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/ . 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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