Water Quantity
- Promote water conservation through incentives
- Loss of groundwater recharge areas
- Storm water management
- peak flow
- groundwater recharge
- Future water needs: residential and industrial growth and development
(Potential impacts: sprawl, out-of-state development pressures, bottled water industry, power generation, agriculture, and mineral extraction)
Water Quality
- Point source pollution
- Combined sewer overflows
- Industrial discharges
- Municipal wastewater
- Water-borne diseases and parasites
- Non-Point source pollution
- Storm water run-off (urban, suburban, rural)
- Erosion & sediment controls
- Timber harvesting,
- Agriculture,
- Construction activities
- Dirt and gravel roads
- Nutrients (agriculture, lawns, on-lot septic systems)
- Impaired waters/TMDLs
- Assimilative capacity of streams (ex. affects of acid precipitation on watersheds with low buffering capacity
- Mineral extraction (abandoned mine drainage, oil and gas wells, gravel pits & quarries)
Conservation, Preservation and Protection
- Sustainability for Multiple Uses
- Preservation of Important Economic Uses
- Preservation of Non-Withdrawal Uses and Values
- Conservation of critical habitat areas (species of special concern, acid producing rock, pristine areas)
- River Corridor/Watershed Management
- Greenways
- Stream bank protection
- Conservation Incentives (Stream buffers, flood loss reduction, downstream benefits)
- Critical aquifer recharge areas
- Private ownership impacts and conflicts
- Protection of fish and aquatic life
Regional Planning/land use
- Adequate tools and data for regional decisions
- Promote cooperation to meet water resource needs (shareholder participation)
- Public involvement and education
Opportunities for Economic Development
- Marketing water resources for economic development
- Impaired Water & wastewater treatment opportunities
- High purity applications
- Beneficial re-use of effluent
- Development and prudent management of groundwater resources
- Interbasin transfer
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