Managing Healthy Water It all goes away… The Waste Water Treatment System Sanitary Sewers.

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Managing Healthy Water

Transcript of Managing Healthy Water It all goes away… The Waste Water Treatment System Sanitary Sewers.

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Managing Healthy Water

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It all goes away…

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The Waste Water Treatment System

Sanitary Sewers

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The Waste Water Treatment System

Storm Sewers

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Combined Sewer and Storm Water Systems

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Non-Point-Source & Point-Source Pollution

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The Clean Water Act

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Separate Storm Water Systems

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Sanitary Sewer Ins / Influent

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Storm Water Sewer Ins / Influent

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Sanitary and Storm Sewer Outs / Effluent

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Phosphorous

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Herbicides

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Prescription Drugs

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Prescription Drugs

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Over-the-Counter Drugs

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Naturally Occurring Challenges

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The Waste Water Treatment Plant’s Role

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The Community’s Role

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Rain Barrels

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Rain Barrels Benefits

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Rain Gardens

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Why Rain Gardens?

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Beautiful & Native Rain Garden Plants

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Prescription Drug Disposal

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General Water Conservation

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Acknowledgments

• Lindsey Grimm, Licking County Recycling

• Northeast Ohio Public Involvement Public Education Committee

• Rusty Schmidt, URS Corp. • US Department of Agriculture,

Natural Resource Conservation Service

• US Department of Justice, Drug Enforcement Administration, Office of Diversion Control

• US Food and Drug Administration, Consumer Health Information

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Contact Us to Learn More

Licking County Soil and Water Conservation District (740) 670-5330 or [email protected]

•Purchase a Rain Barrel

•Schedule a water conservation class including:

•Build a Rain Barrel Workshop

•Rain Garden Demonstration Workshop

•Stream Team Volunteer Water Quality Monitoring Training

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Keep Up the Good Work