Meeting Updates
The newly named River City WRAPS team will meet for a planning session on April 1 from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the WATER Center. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss upcoming volunteer opportunities for WRAPS projects.
The Interim Executive Committee is looking for volunteers who are interested in manning exhibit booths, working with children at the zoo or participating in a river clean up. Volunteers can sign up for specific projects at the next meeting. See the list of events below.
- EARTH FEST 2010: “Good Food For All ”
Saturday, April 17th 9 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Herman Hill Park, Wichita Water Center - Boeing Wichita Presents: Earth Day Kansas
Thursday, April 22, 2010: 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Sedgwick County Zoo
- WALK for CLEAN WATER
Sunday, April 18
Watson Park – 3022 S. McLean Blvd.
Each year during the month of April, Aveda salon and spa professionals, raise funds for grassroots organizations that protect biodiversity and address environmental issues around the world. More information coming soon!
- River Clean Up for the Wichita River Festival
Saturday, May 1
Other News
The Interim Executive Committee is working to make the switch from Wichita WRAPS to River City WRAPS. This means you may notice some changes to the Web site, blog and Twitter account during the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned for exciting changes.
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 possible 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.
Development Phase Final Documents
Development Phase Report
- PDF (3.4 MB) »
River City WRAPS Survey Summary
- PDF »
River City WRAPS Web Site Analytics
- PDF »
Leadership Team Background Materials
Stakeholder Leadership Team Time Commitment
- PDF »
Introductory Powerpoint
- PDF (2.5 MB) »
Symposium brainstorming session
- PDF »
Symposium 2006 Category results
- Excel »
What's the score: symposium results
- PDF »
arkansas River Ambassador program
- PDF »
River Ambassador's presentation
- PDF (1.3 MB) »
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