Protect Water Quantity

• Define Resource (groundwater and surface water)
• Define Uses (Consumptive and non-consumptive)
• Define Users (environmental/recreation/economic/agriculture…)
• Allocations
• Balancing Water
• Who will manage water resources (decision making authorities)
• Emergency management
• Prioritize use
• Export/transfer
• Import
• Recycling
• Upgrade infrastructure
• Future demand
• Education

Protecting Water Quality

• Ecological resources
• Stormwater management
• Upgrading infrastructure
• Define users
• Define resources
• Define uses
• Who is regulating (what standards apply and how are they applied)
• Well abandonment
• Non-point source pollution
• Recycling/conservation
• Wastewater management
• Establishing current water quality
• Education
• Home land security issues
• Land use
• Balanced uses

Land Use Impacts/Sustainable Planning

• Stormwater Management
• Erosion and Sedimentation control
• Protecting groundwater supplies
• BMPs in agriculture
• Wellhead protection
• Correlating with regional and municipal planning
• Education
• Unique Shoreline Issues (????)
• Public access
• Bluff recession
• Floodplain management
• Littoral drift

Collaborate, Coordinate and be Cognizant with Great Lakes Basin

• Regional planning
• Regional dialogue
• Education

Communicating with the Public