Development of an Urban Waterbody Education Plan For Georgia

Proceedings of the 1995 Georgia Water Resources Conference, April 11 and 12, 1995, Athens, Georgia.This paper describes the development of an education plan for instructing the populace of Georgia concerning the sources and effects of nonpoint pollutants upon urban streams of the state. Completed in early 1994, the project contained three major components: a series of public service announcements for distribution to radio and television stations across the state, a short videotape for use in presentations before a variety of groups; and a document providing a strategy and process for informing the population of Georgia about the sources and effects of nonpoint pollutants and soliciting citizen responses to help address the problem.Sponsored and Organized by: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of TechnologyThis book was published by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 with partial funding provided by the U.S. Department of Interior, Geological Survey, through the Georgia Water Research Institute as authorized by the Water Resources Research Act of 1990 (P.L. 101-397). The views and statements advanced in this publication are solely those of the authors and do not represent official views or policies of the University of Georgia or the U.S. Geological Survey or the conference sponsors