FROM DRAIN TO DREAM III WATERSHED CONFERENCE

[Paul n Shelley]

FROM DRAIN TO DREAM III WATERSHED CONFERENCE

WATER QUALITY ISSUES AND THE CLEAN WATER ACT EXPLORED
How Water Quality Standards are Determined, Enforced, and Changed
Water Quality Issues now Under Debate

Date         Saturday, April 15, 9:00 AM to 3:30 PM
Cost:      $12 includes lunch, parking and materials.  Scholarships will
be 
available.
Location:  Department of Water and Power Auditorium, 111 North Hope.
Downtown Los Angeles

The Los Angeles & San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council's spring
conference 
will explore the Clean Water Act and the quality of the waters in our 
watershed.  Just as last year's conference led to the publication of a
book 
on Storm Water, this conference will lead to the publication of a book
on 
water quality.  It will also lead to recommendations as to what
standards you 
think appropriate for our local water bodies.  Your input is sought.

Draft copies of this new book will be mailed to all who reserve space
ahead 
of time.  It is important to learn the content in advance because we
will be 
soliciting conference participants' advice and guidance on the
appropriate 
water quality standards for our local water bodies.  Establishing these 
standards is, in the final analysis, a political process.  Our 
recommendations will be presented to the Regional Water Quality Control
Board 
together as part of the published book.  Come and Let your Voice be
Heard!

AGENDA:  We have invited Alexis Straus, Chief of Water for US EPA Region
IX, 
to be our keynoter, to present an overview of water quality issues,
past, 
present, and future.  Dr. Heather Trim, author of our new book, will
present 
an overview.  She will be followed by a response panel composed of the 
Regulator (The Regional Water Board), the Regulated (L A City Sanitation 
District), the Environmental Community, and the Watershed Council.
    After lunch we will assemble in small workshop groups with a
facilitator 
to debate the various beneficial use designations, and decide on our 
recommendations.  The small groups will then come together again, to
report 
on their deliberations, and hopefully agree on a consensus
recommendation to 
include in the book and for presentation to the Regional Board.

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Please sign me up.  I want to attend this year's Drain to Dream:
Beneficial 
Uses Conference.  Enclosed is $12 to cover costs of coffee, lunch,
parking, 
and materials.  Reservations must be received by April 5 for a draft
copy of 
our book to be mailed to you for review before the conference. Mail to
LASG 
Watershed Council, 111 No Hope St, #627, Los Angeles 90012
Or call 213-367-4111 for more information.

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