Several free public lectures on a varied slate of state and regional water issues will form the University of Nebraska's spring semester water seminar series.
The Kremer Memorial Lecture will take place from 3:30-4:30 p.m., March. 12 in the Hardin Hall auditorium. Becky Ohrtman, SWP program director, and Dan Cook, project manager, Iowa Department of Natural Resources, will present "A New Approach to Source Water Protection Planning: Groundwater Site Investigation."
In 2007, the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) Source Water Protection (SWP) Program initiated a new approach to the state's SWP program. The existing SWP program transformed into two separate programs: The SWP for Targeted Community Water Supplies (CWS) Program and the SWP for Non-targeted CWS Program. Iowa's 262 "at-risk" CWS were included in the Targeted CWS Program, while those CWS with low susceptibility reside in the Non-targeted SWP program. Communities in the at-risk category were identified as having shallow alluvial wells or wells located in karst with nitrate levels at or above 5 mg/L in finished water. The presentation will only discuss the SWP for Targeted CWS program process.
Cosponsoring the lectures with the Nebraska Water Center, part of the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute, is UNL's School of Natural Resources, which also offers the lecture series as a course for student credit.
The complete January through April schedule is posted online at watercenter.unl.edu. Individual lecture videos and speaker PowerPoint presentations will also be posted at that web address within a few days after the lecture.
More details at: http://go.unl.edu/t6c0