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NEMO Continued

 

Training Session Agenda

8:30     Registration

9:00     NEMO

1. Purpose
2. Alabama NEMO
3. Nonpoint Source Pollution (NPS) and NEMO overview
4. NPS and the Clean Water Act

How does NPS relate to other environmental programs?
Clean Water Act                     MS4                 Stormwater Phase I and II
Public Drinking Water,            TMDLs            Groundwater

10:00 Certification Programs for Control of Development Impacts

1. Five Year Statewide Water Basin Rotation
2. Water monitoring and Mapping
3. ADEM Water Monitoring
4. Alabama Water Watch
5. Flooding

10:30   Break

10:45 Economics and Planning

1. Watershed Boundaries vs Political Boundaries
2. Regional Planning Commissions
3. Maps Presentation

11:30   Lunch

12:30   Low Impact Development
            Exercise in LID

1:30     Codes and Ordinances
            Smart Growth
            Impervious Surfaces
            Decentralized Wastewater

2:15     Break

2:30     3:00     Training pointers

1. Adult Learners and Rural Officials

3:20     Slide – Power Point Presentation
Dialog and discussion points for each slide through the script

4:30     Taylor the presentation to meet different audiences
            Review of Check List
Tool Box Presentation

Click here for the Registration Form (adobe PDF)

NEMO -Alabama: Meeting a Need.

Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (NEMO) is an education program that addresses water quality through land use and natural resource planning.  Specifically, NEMO is focused on the explanation of nonpoint sources and their link to different land uses. Particular attention is paid to the role of impervious, or paved, surfaces in the transport and concentration of pollutants. To guide towns, NEMO outlines a three-tiered strategy of natural resource-based planning, site design, and the use of stormwater best management practices that towns can use to address their land use and cope with nonpoint source pollution.

NEMO began in 1991 as a pilot project to design and test a new way of presenting information to three coastal communities in Connecticut. The technical nature of the program was designed around the intended audience of engineers, planners, and commissioners--all decision-makers within the towns. Since then, NEMO has continued to give presentations by request across the state and is presently being implemented in 17 other states.

Now in its second year, NEMO - Alabama also continues to work collaboratively with local groups on watershed projects, building on the original NEMO program with additional data layers, new audiences and more partners.

By introducing water quality issues within a non-regulatory framework, presenting strategies that communities can adapt to their particular situations, and making a long-term commitment to work with each community, NEMO has become a catalyst for significant changes in local land use policies. The project is a model for other groups nationwide and locally as they search to find a program effective for and adaptable to their own regions.

NEMO - Alabama, is a cooperative educational project which thus far includes the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, The Alabama Association of Regional Councils of Government, Cawaco Resource Conservation & Development Council, Inc., Storm Water Management Authority, Inc., USDA - NRCS, and the Alabama Water Watch Association.  There is also a dedicated Advisory Board of volunteers, agencies, and representatives of the Water Works Association.  Other cooperators include the Environmental Protection Agency, individuals, businesses, and caring citizens.

Partial funding for NEMO-Alabama is provided by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Section 319 Clean Water Act Funds through the efforts of ADEM.
 
For more details on the project and its impacts, please check out our website http://www.aces.edu/waterquality/nemo/intro.htm or NEMO CT website at http://nemonet.uconn.edu   or contact the project coordinator at pah@adem.state.al.us .