Project Background: In 2012, 13 Massachusetts towns faced a significant challenge: how to implement their stormwater programs in an era of diminished town resources. Encouraged by the Massachusetts Department of…
Archives for December 2014
Tennessee’s Water and Wastewater Energy Efficiency Partnership
The Tennessee Water and Wastewater Energy Efficiency Partnership began in 2011 as a collaboration of U.S. EPA Region 4, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, the Tennessee Valley Authority,…
Oregon’s Pesticide Stewardship Partnership
The Pesticide Stewardship Partnership program began as a pilot project in Hood River, Oregon in 2000 after current use pesticides were found to exceed water quality standards. Rather than take…
Missouri’s Hinkson Creek Collaborative Adaptive Management Process
In March 2012, three joint MS4 permit holders including the City of Columbia, Boone County, and the University of Missouri agreed with U.S. EPA and the Missouri Department of Natural…
Maine’s ‘Save Your Pipes: Don’t Flush Baby Wipes’
A unique collaboration between an industry association, a water district, and a nonprofit has Maine answering a national and international problem – the flushing of baby wipes. Treatment operators routinely…
Virginia’s Hazardous Waste Small Quantity Never Inspected Initiative – Use of GIS and Other Web Tools to Target Inspections
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VADEQ) has undertaken an initiative to address the more than 3,000 never-inspected hazardous waste small quantity generators throughout the Commonwealth. In doing so with…
Wisconsin’s Assessment Monies Program
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) has launched an initiative to assist local governments and property owners with economic redevelopment when closed or closing manufacturing plants are acting as…
North Carolina’s ECLIPS – Electronic Certification Licensing Inspections and Permitting Service
ECLIPS is the North Carolina Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Land Quality Section’s new e-Permitting Web Application. It is designed to give the State’s Erosion and Sedimentation Control…
Indiana Electronic State Fund Application
Between 2013 and 2014, the State Fund Program made enhancements to the fund claim application for reimbursement of corrective action costs associated with releases from Underground Storage Tanks (USTs). The…
Missouri’s GeoSTRAT Tool – Online Interactive Geology and Hydrologic Mapping
The Missouri Geologic Survey, part of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, has implemented GeoSTRAT – the Geosciences Technical Resource Assessment Tool. GeoSTRAT is a web application that enables users…
