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Clean water is important for many reasons. Safe drinking water is critical to protect human health and clean surface water and groundwater are essential for people, wildlife, plants and aquatic communities to flourish. Our drinking water in the Miami Valley originates from a huge buried valley aquifer system that provides local communities with high quality waters that are often further treated to ensure their safety. This groundwater system is closely linked to our surface waters, with each flowing between the two during periods of low and high flows. It is essential that both our surface and groundwater remain clean so that they do not contaminate each other.
Good planning is needed in order to protect our drinking water resources, promote recreational activities, and provide a high quality environment for fish and wildlife. The Miami Valley Regional Planning Commission has worked to do this since 1974 through the development of the Region’s Areawide Water Quality Management Plan.
Determining what constitutes high quality rivers and streams is complex. The aquatic environment consists of many interacting factors, such as: water, flow, dissolved chemicals (most are naturally occurring and essential for life), microscopic to large organisms, and habitat (such as clay, sand, gravel, rocks, leaves, and other natural debris). These factors are constantly changing, both daily and seasonally, depending on the weather and the impacts of human activities. Many natural factors can have severe consequences on water quality and the organisms that live there, such as droughts, floods, or temperature extremes. No one factor typically dictates whether water quality is good or not. Rather, it is a combination of water quality criteria that scientists must interpret to determine the conditions that promote or degrade aquatic life and water quality.
Trout in the Classroom is a national educational program promoted by Trout Unlimited. Ohio’s Madmen Chapter of Trout Unlimited sponsors Trout in the Classroom at Benjamin Logan High School, Bellefontaine, Ohio, one of 4 schools in Ohio studying trout growth and the first in the Mad River watershed. Working with Spencer Reames, an award winning science teacher at Ben Logan High, the Madmen purchased the equipment to get the program started while funds from the Ohio Environmental Education Fund grant, written by Mr.
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September Meeting: Special Focus on Oil and Gas Development and Protection of Groundwater
Date: Wednesday September 7, 2011, 9:30 AM
Location: 1 South Main Street, Fifth Floor, Dayton, OH 45402 (Fifth Third Center Building)
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Under Section 208 of the Clean Water Act MVRPC has the responsibility for reviewing and approving individual Wastewater Treatment Facility Plans and their associated Facility Planning Areas.
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MVRPC is currently updating the 208 Water Quality Management Plan. Check often for updates on the plan progress.
Public Meeting Exhibits, Feb, 2011
The presentation and materials for the Public Meetings on the Draft Water Quality Management Plan are available online. Comments on the draft plan content will be accepted at the five meetings, or via e-mail to Matt Lindsay of the MVRPC staff. Written comments may also be sent by postal mail to: MVRPC, Attn: Matt Lindsay, 1 S. Main Street, Suite 260, Dayton, OH 45402. Comments are being accepted until March 15, 2011.
Other questions about the public meetings or the draft plan may be addressed to Matt Lindsay at (937) 531-6548.
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The Areawide Facility Planning Subcommittee (AFPSC) aids in the development and/or review of Facility Plan update guidelines, the technical review of individual Facility Plan update proposals, and the provision of input on such proposals. Input on individual Facility Plan and/or Facility Planning Area Update proposals from the AFCSC input will be forwarded to MVRPC's Technical Advisory Committee for additional review and input.
September Meeting: Special Focus on Oil and Gas Development and Protection of Groundwater
Date: Wednesday September 7, 2011, 9:30 AM
Location: 1 South Main Street, Fifth Floor, Dayton, OH 45402 (Fifth Third Center Building)
Click for information regarding the September 7 Facility Planning Subcommittee meeting will have two special presenters on the agenda, ahead of the normal business.
In accordance with the Water Pollution Control Act amendments of 1972, MVRPC serves as the Designated Water Quality Planning Agency for the 5-county Miami Valley Region. In this role MVRPC prepared and continually maintains the Areawide Water Quality Management Plan.
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Under Section 208 of the Clean Water Act MVRPC has the responsibility for reviewing and approving individual Wastewater Treatment Facility Plans and their associated Facility Planning Areas.
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In May 2004 a special Areawide Facility Planning Subcommittee was formed to offer input on the technical issues of wastewater treatment facility planning. This group includes those participants from the Great Miami Network and Little Miami Basin Councils from MVRPC’s 5-County Planning Area.
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Amendments to the Areawide Water Quality Management Plan are subject to the approval of the MVRPC Board of Directors. Prior to Board consideration, amendments are reviewed by the MVRPC Technical Advisory Committee and the MVRPC Areawide Facility Planning Subcommittee.
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