Salmon Falls Watershed Collaborative
Associated People Chris Feurt Zack Steele
Building Capacity and Collaborating to Protect Source Water
The Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership has convened the Salmon Falls Watershed Collaborative to improve watershed planning and management — and to protect water supply sources — in the Salmon Falls River watershed.
The collaborative will coordinate long-term source water protection efforts among planning commissions, land trusts, watershed associations, water systems, and town, state, and federal agencies in New Hampshire and Maine. The collaborative's goal is to protect and sustain high quality drinking water in the Salmon Falls River watershed.
This project includes collaborative planning for a workshop, development of a stakeholder generated white paper, and implementation of select source water protection actions based on stakeholder priorities identified through the workshop and in the white paper.
Project Details
The Salmon Falls Watershed Collaborative will host a one-day workshop on October 27, 2010. The workshop will be designed to contribute to building a sense of shared purpose among participants in the Salmon Falls Watershed. Organizations will include Maine and New Hampshire state agencies, water systems, local governments (select boards, planning boards, conservation commissions, and town staff), watershed groups, lake associations, land trusts, regional planning commissions, and other conservation organizations. The workshop will lead to a white paper that documents the collaboratively developed plan of action for improved protection of source water in the Salmon Falls River watershed. As part of the overall project, several low-cost, high-priority actions will be implemented after the workshop.
Project Partners
The project includes support from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Marketing for Change, a firm hired by the EPA to support the Source Water Collaborative. The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Drinking Water Program has indicated its interest in funding aspects of the Salmon Falls Watershed Collaborative.
For more information contact the project management team:
- Christine Feurt, Ph.D., 207-646-1555 ext 111
- Zack Steele, 207-646-1555 ext 157
