Description
As multi-use pressures increase across our landscape, it becomes even more critical to protect vital sources of freshwater to maintain quality systems. We can each likely think of our own examples of competition over a resource, and the compounded effects of overuse or mismanagement of a system. In many cases, this results in degraded water quality and impairments in the designated uses of waterbodies. Protecting those resources from impacts becomes even more critical, particularly for those waterbodies used as a drinking water supply. In this issue of LakeLine, we focus on source water protection (SWP) from a number of angles, to stress the importance of protecting the resource from degradation, and the programs that exist to protect these important systems.
NALMS recognizes that SWP is an important issue, and has developed both a white paper and a position statement on the subject. Additionally, NALMS is connected through its membership with a network of interest groups, including the Source Water Collaborative. In recent interactions with that group, the development of a themed issue of LakeLine on source water protection was born.
- LakeLine 39-3 Full
- From the Editor
Amy Smagula - From the President
Sara Peel - Protection of Lakes and Reservoirs as Drinking Water Supply Sources
Dr. Chi Ho Sham - Collaboration Protects Sources of Drinking Water
Dan Yates and Alan Roberson - Addressing Changing Water Quality in Water Supply Reservoirs
Josh Weiss, Bill Becker, Jim DeWolfe, Christine Owen, Wendy Krkosek, and Graham Gagnon - Collaborate, Plan, and Prepare – A Utility’s Role in Source Water Protection
Kate Dunlap and Michelle Wind - Lake Appreciation Month and Secchi Day on Beaver Lake, Northwest Arkansas
Matthew Rich, Becky Roark, and Brad Hufhines - Forest Conservation and Management to Protect Sources of Drinking Water
Pierce A. Rigrod and John M. O’Neil - Source Water Protection Challenges in NH’s Multi-Use Water Supply Lakes
Paul Susca and Tom O’Brien - Closing the Human-Nature Feedback Loop
V. Reilly Henson, Kelly M. Cobourn, Cayelan C. Carey, Kevin J. Boyle, Michael G. Sorice, Nicole K. Ward, and Kathleen C. Weathers - Student Corner – Aquatic Invasive Species
Sarah Coney
