Archive for April, 2009
Jordan Creek Clean Up
When:
Saturday, April 25th 9AM-12PM
Where:
We will meet at the dog park on the SW corner of Grand and Kansas Expressway
Who:
The Watershed Committee of the Ozarks, you, and your friends!! Invite co-workers to join in too!
What to Bring:
Bring waders, old shoes and gloves that can get wet
Trash bags will be provided
Sponsors still needed to provide anything from snacks afterwards to T-shirts or even door prizes.
Contact Ted Alfermann @ 636-221-1275 for more information
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Watershed Committee Monthly Meeting
Join Us
Date: Friday, May 1, 2009
Time: 7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m.
Location: Midtown Carnegie Library 397 E. Central Springfield MO
Presentation: Economic Development Opportunities for Landfill Gas and Small Hydro in Missouri, Jason Hines,Free Flow Power
Missouri Department of Conservation Update-Andy Austin
Please bring your own coffee mug.
Proudly serving Audubon Premium Shade Grown Coffee
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Price Cutter recipient of WCO Choose Environmental Excellence Award
This year’s Watershed Committee Choose Environmental Award goes to Price Cutter Stores, which have implemented a large number of Eco-Friendly Actions, including composting food wastes, promoting cloth grocery bags, recycling cardboard and reducing electricity use. Erick Taylor, Price Cutter President, said in a written statement that “the Price Cutter committment to helping our neighbor’s includes protecting the environment where we live”. Cutting back on energy use and composting and recycling also conserves and protects our water! We are proud to have Price Cutter as our recipient for this year’s award.
For more information about locally owned Price Cutter Stores, visit www.pricecutteronline.com
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Source Water Protection
A recent USGS study stresses the importance of Source Water Protection. Consider the findings reported in the study:
More than 20% of private domestic wells sampled nationwide contain at least one contaminant at levels of potential health concern.
Nitrate, an inorganic contaminant derived from man-made sources such as fertilizers and septic tanks was found in about 4% (84) wells sampled.
Bacteria including E-Coli were found in as many as one third of a subset of 400 wells sampled.
About half of the wells deemed to have potential health concerns had concentrations of contaminants greater than the Maximum Contaminant Levels specified by the Safe Drinking Water Act for public water supplies.
What can be done? Support the Watershed Committee’s efforts to protect the source waters supplying the Springfield/Greene County area. The USGS suggests that “greater attention to the quality of drinking water from private wells and continued public education are important steps toward the goal of protecting public health”. Private well owners are responsible for testing the quality of their well water and treating it if necessary. To determine what might be of local concern, well owners should ask state or local authorities involved in public health or well construction. To find a qualified drinking water testing lab, well owners should contact their state or local health department, or check the ”Water Quality” section fo NGWA’s website (www.wellowner.org). If local labs do not test for substances a well owner wants to check, national water testing labes may be able to help-National Testing labs (www.ntllabs.com) and Underwriters Laboratories (www.ul.com).
For more information on sampling your well, contact your local Health Department, or see the “How to Protect Your Well” brochure on the Watershed Committee’s Publications page, or check out the following USGS link: www.usgs.gov and http://water.usgs.gov/nawqa/studies/domestic_wells/
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H2Ozarks Premier at the Moxie
“Celebrate Earth Day with Clean Water”
A short film about clean water in the Ozarks, called H2Ozarks will premier at the Moxie on April 23rd from 6 to 9pm. This event is FREE and open to the public. The half-hour film focuses on water quality efforts in Southwest Missouri accomplished through the Water Quality Improvement Project.
This project was managed by Environmental Resources Coalition and included work by several area watershed groups including Elk River Watershed Improvement Association, James River Basin Partnership, Watershed Committee of the Ozarks, Table Rock Lake Water Quality Inc., Shoal Creek Watershed Improvement Group, and Upper White River Basin Foundation. Funding was made possible by Senator Kit Bond and former Senator Jim Talent.
The film will play every half-hour and you can enjoy music by Mark Bilyeu & Cindy Woolf in the lobby, and photography by Josh Mitchell.
Moxie Cinema 431 S. Jefferson, #108 Springfield, MO 65806
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