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storm water
  • Storm Water and Flood Management
    • Characterize and quantify storm water sources from various land uses.
    • Identify and adopt storm water pollution prevention measures.
    • Collect GIS information and create databases to assist businesses and communities in their decision-making.
   
animal manure
  • Animal Manure and Farm Nutrient Input
    • Describe and identify the excess phosphorus on the farm.
    • Develop strategies to reduce phosphorus importation to the farm.
    • Seek measures to reduce the phosphorus loading by immobilizing or instituting options such as composting.
    • Improve nutrient cycling to increase exports from the basin or to better contain them on the farm.
   
septic
  • Septic Systems and Waste Water Treatment Plants
    • Identification and needs assessment of septic systems will quantify pollutant levels.
    • Develop long-range strategy to maintain, repair, or replace individual systems.
    • Aid communities, when appropriate, by planning long-term solutions for wastewater treatment.
   
highway drainage
  • Highway Drainage
    • Conduct an inventory to determine need and opportunity for improved drainage and run-off for infrastructure improvement and phosphorus control.
    • Identify short term management opportunities.
    • Describe long-term infrastructure improvements that will reduce adverse impacts on water quality.
   
stream
  • Stream Corridor  Protection and Rehabilitation
    • Identify stream corridors where management will  provide the greatest benefit.
    • Reduce risks posed by excessive floodwater activity.
    • Reduce contaminant transport that results from flooding.
   
local capacity
  • Building Local Capacity
    • Demonstrate we can provide quality drinking water to New York City under the Filtration Avoidance Determination (FAD) criteria.
    • DCAP, a wholly local initiative, recognized by all USEPA and NYSDOH as policy enabling Delaware County to meet FAD criteria.
    • Assist businesses, institutions and municipalities that own non-complying activities by providing information regarding the registration process.
    • Educate the public on the importance of their role in these projects and their implementation.
   
monitoring
  • Monitoring and Modeling and Scientific Credibility
    • DCAP is able to attain credibility due to scientific methodology.
    • Monitoring of water quality before and after various project's implementation necessary for a more complete accounting of phosphorus.
    • Monitoring water quality will continue in order to take advantage of phosphorus offsets mechanisms described in the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA).
    • Watershed models will be developed to describe and manage point and non-point sources of phosphorus over a long period of time.
    • Quantifying imports and exports of phosphorus in the basin.
   
     
   
 

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