Menard County Case Study

The dust settled as the last vehicle departed the newly established ghost town. What was once a bustling rural community in eastern Colorado, complete with a school and church, and businesses off the main street, has become deserted due to a lack of water. This has become an all too familiar scene in rural communities across Colorado as the increasing demand for water and the dwindling water supply pits water users against one another. The state’s free market style of appropriating water, known as prior appropriation, allows for this highly competitive, and often detrimental situation to persist. As climate change and population growth continue to strain the water supply in Colorado, it will be necessary to adjust the strict prior appropriation

In regards to St. Clair County obesity is a leading health issue in the St. Clair County Community and listed to be one of the leading causes of deaths in the United States. It seems that through research the obesity rate has fluctuated over previous years, but has not made any significantly positive changes. If the obesity rate continues to be a major health disparity lives are at risk of premature death. The health commission and several health agencies/ organizations are working hard to decrease the number of obesity cases, and preventing the onset of type II diabetes.

The local issue as described in the first Milestone submission is water quality. Independence is a rural area in southeast Kansas. With a population of 9,453 residents being reported in last year’s census reports of the town of Independence, you can imagine that it is a relatively small community when compared to even your hometown. This population total is significantly lower this year with the closing of the local hospital in December of last year, with a community lacking the basic necessity of an emergency room and medical testing facility, many residents have decided to make a change and move to a more stable area. With the closing of the hospital the city of Independence has decided to spend $3.5 million to renovate the vacant facility into a new city offices location, in an attempt to modernize the township and combine all of the city’s services into a central location. This decision was made by our local representatives because they felt this was the best way to spend the tax payer’s money, the irony of the situation is that the hospital needed $3.5 million to renovate the facility for themselves in order to pass the states medical inspection and remain open to the public.

Government officials and groups such as the Arizona Department of Water Resources seem confident in the progress thus far to conserve and store for the future. Arizona is one of the few western states considered to have a well-divided government organization when it comes to managing the above and underground water resources. The Key persons and groups in Government on this situation along with their role in Arizona water are as follows:

As has been noted , the state should regulate ground water because they are taking more than they need. They are Also leaving citizens bereft of water for necessary

The Denver Basin aquifer system is a noteworthy wellspring of water for South Metro Denver. The framework stretches out from Colorado Springs in the south to Greeley in the north, from the foothills close Golden in the west toward the eastern fields close Limon, a surface region of around 6,700 square miles. It incorporates four aquifers: the Dawson, Denver, Arapahoe, and Laramie-Fox Hills. Every aquifer has diverse water quality, profundities, and water accessibility (CFWE, 2002).

This week’s assignment was to search out the schedule for any local city council or county commission public meeting and attend either in person or online to observe the deliberations. This observation paper is of the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) for Broward County. The meeting was held on March 28, 2017 at 10:08 a.m. The Broward County Charter requires a division among the legislative and administrative functions of government and the BOCC is the legislative branch of the county government (Borward.org. 2017. para. 1). The BOCC consists of nine members who are elected by district in partisan elections and each Commissioner is a resident of the distract for which he or she seeks election (Broward.org. 2017. para. 2). Each November,

WOOSTER — The Wayne County commissioners were all smiles as the conversion from a patched-together public safety communications system to the state’s Multi-Agency Radio Communications System took another step forward Thursday.

Recent amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act emphasize efforts toward safeguarding the nation's water supplies against attack and contamination. The Terrorist and Other Intentional Actions Section establishes requirements for each community water system serving more than 3300 people to conduct an assessment of the vulnerability of its system to a terrorist attack or other intentional acts intended to substantially disrupt the ability of the system to provide a safe and reliable supply of drinking water. Also, healthy, secure communities require clean drinking water and sanitary waste treatment. EPA provides water utilities with tools and strategies needed to improve drinking water and wastewater system resiliency to disasters and to quickly

Imagine you live in a small town. You have a nice little house, maybe a dog or a cat. The town went through some rough times during the recent recession, but things are looking up: a new frac sand mine moved in nearby, providing jobs for a large portion of the community. Although there is more traffic because of the mine, it seems relatively harmless. As time goes on, however, you start to feel as if something is off. You haven’t been feeling well, and you suspect it has something to do with your tap water. You switch to bottled water and try to avoid using the public water as much as possible. A couple of years later, the news comes out that the frac sand mine had been contaminating the groundwater, making it unsafe. A dozen questions fill your mind with fear and anger: how has my health been affected? How can this problem be fixed? Will it ever be safe to drink the water again? Why did it take so long for this problem to be acknowledged?

For this assignment, I chose my home in Coastal Georgia. This area includes Brunswick (city and rural areas), St. Simons Island, Jekyll Island and Sea Island. I have had the privilege of contacting our County Commissioner, Dale Provenzano, formally a board member for the Joint Water and Sewer Commission, to enlighten me in the areas of water sourcing, demand, challenges, and solution recommendations.

Many Americans may suffer from drinking contaminated water and not even know it. For example, In Flint Michigan, they were once getting a nice clean water supply from Lake Huron, but they had to pay the city of Detroit. So the city council decided they could cut costs by using the water from the Flint River. The river was known to the local people as filthy and thought that it was a joke switching to the river water. Once they switched their water supply to the river they had noticed the water was brown and looked dirty. After testing they found out the river water was nineteen times more corrosive compared to the Lake Huron water since it so corrosive it eats at the water. With 50% of the water lines in Flint Michigan being lead this also

The difference in regulations of checks and balances is that the EPA requires cities to carry out stringent testing and done so hundreds of times to ensure safety for the populations they serve. Conversely, the FDA leaves it up to the manufacturers to deem their product safe (Crane, 2011). This fact is unsettling at best, considering that forty-five percent of the water deemed “pure” is repackaged from municipal water facilities (Crane, 2011).

The Water and Wastewater Systems Sector is a very important critical infrastructure sector because it provides one of the key elements that we need to survive, which is drinking water. Besides drinking water, the Water and Waste Water Systems Sector is also responsible for ensuring that wastewater is properly disposed and treated to prevent diseases or environmental contamination before it is used again (Department of Homeland Security & Environmental Protection Agency, 2015). The Water and Wastewater Systems Sector is a critical infrastructure sector that is relevant to all communities across the United States since there exist some sort of Water and Wastewater Systems Sector critical infrastructure within each community that is either privately

Since 2010, many incidents have occurred that are similar to the BP oil spill. Water pollution has contributed to the contamination of the world’s supply of useable water. This pollution can come in many different forms. Some of these forms include intentional or unintentional contamination by industries, and industrial accidents like the BP oil spill. Events like these are common, and they infect the water that individuals utilize on a daily basis. Because these events harm the environment, furious individuals are demanding to know who is responsible for treating tainted water.