Meeting Updates
The next Stakeholder Leadership Team (SLT) meeting will be held Feb. 4 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the WATER Center, 101 E. Pawnee. Interested stakeholders who were unable to attend the first, second or third meeting are welcome to attend the fourth meeting.
SLT Meeting #1
During the first SLT meeting, more than 25 members gathered to discuss watershed issues and concerns within the Wichita city limits.
Click here to view their complete list of issues and concerns.
SLT Meeting #2
During the second SLT meeting, 20 members reviewed the previously compiled list, which brought up a series of questions about Wichita's water quality monitoring programs. Those questions and answers can be found by clicking here.
SLT Members were also asked to respond to four questions about neighborhood involvement, potential remedies for water quality impairments, residential and commercial concerns and generating involvement from commercial interests.
Click here to view the SLT's answers.
SLT Meeting #3
During the third SLT meeting, several members presented possilbe solutions to water quality issues. Members of the SLT were then given an opportunity to prioritize and rank the categories.
Presentation summaries can be found by clicking here.
Leadership Team Background Materials
Stakeholder Leadership Team Time Commitment
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Introductory Powerpoint
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Symposium brainstorming session
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Symposium 2006 Category results
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What's the score: symposium results
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arkansas River Ambassador program
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River Ambassador's presentation
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Little Ark WRAPS Final Report
- PDF (4.1 MB) »
Led by the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita, the Wichita Initiative to Renew the Environment (WIRE) is a community-based initiative focused on identifying and addressing environmental concerns in Wichita.
It is a grassroots initiative in collaboration with citizens, neighborhood groups, community leaders, businesses, and government to identify environmental health concerns and work toward improving our local community.
EPA Launches "TMDLs at Work" Web Site
EPA has released a new Web site which provides a collection of stories to inform and educate stakeholders about the benefits of developing pollution reduction budgets, or total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), to protect and restore water quality. The site provides both sound byte (one to two pages) and technical (four to five pages) fact sheets, representative of TMDLs prepared by states around the country.
These fact sheets illustrate how stakeholders can get involved in identifying and cleaning up polluted waters that do not meet their state's water quality standards.The fact sheets also give real-life examples of benefits citizens can enjoy from a cleaned-up waterbody, including enhancements to recreation or better quality drinking water supplies.The collection of TMDLs at Work stories may be updated or expanded annually.
The TMDLs at Work Web site is available at
http://www.epa.gov/owow/tmdl/tmdlsatwork