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Center for Water Resource Studies

Learn about the evolution of the Technical Assistance Center for Water Quality and its impactful deliverables for small water systems. Explore past achievements, current projects, and future goals.

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Center for Water Resource Studies

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  1. Center for Water Resource Studies Meier Lab: July 2003 – Dr. Jaga Anmala, Jenna Harbaugh, Anupama Oruganti, Harish Pratapani, Tim Rink, Dr. Ouida Meier

  2. TACWQ History • Initially funded as the Technical Assistance Center for Water Quality (TACWQ) in FY99 (SDWA) • Two other TACs funded within SDWA, then grew to 11, now down to 8 nationally: TACnet • Our Database Management section evolved into Database Management and Information Tools, now the Information Technology section • This task of the TACWQ has changed with the needs of the industry, the available modes of technical assistance delivery, and EPA priorities

  3. TACWQ task 4 Deliverable History • Initially focused exclusively on internal project data management • Initial products distributed only via KRWA • Increasingly focused on products, software, and information to be distributed: • Directly to small water systems • Indirectly to other Technical Assistance providers (NRWA, state RWA, RCAP/RCAC, AWWA, TACnet, NDWC, ASDWA, EPA, and consultants) who can reach many more small water systems than the TACWQ alone • Strategy for national implementation and distribution of products

  4. Deliverables: Past • Website: One-stop information shopping (regulations, reading, message send, Y2K, CCR, downloads,) • Distribution of donated, refurbished computers to small water systems – Linux-based windows, manual • MORAdvisor • Water Loss Calculator – Excel, as stand-alone • ArcExplorer mapping utility for Kentucky • Kentucky Tools CD • Data retrieval & MCL maps (Ky, southeast US, national) • Internet interface for querying TACWQ database

  5. Deliverables: Present • Updates and additional distributions of Water Loss Calc., Ky Tools CD, ArcExplorer Mapping • Website renovation, featuring download products • Interagency cooperation: natural resource mgmt, NGO science advisor, education K-college projects • National Tools CD • National patterns of drinking water problems

  6. Deliverables: Future Goals • Information Management and Integrity • Effective Internet Communication of Information, Services, and Products • Information Tools and Services for Small Water Systems • Research on Source Water Quality Issues and Challenges • Analyze National Patterns of Drinking Water Problems • Explore Potential for Producing Watershed Mapping Utilities by State • Professional Cooperation with Agencies, Groups and Insititutions

  7. Wastewater

  8. CREP

  9. Upper Green River Biological Preserve

  10. Education Initiatives

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