A listing of education materials in pamphlet, newsletter or fact sheet format pertaining to groundwater and/or groundwater protection follows.
American Ground Water Trust
Contact:
American Ground Water Trust
16 Centre St.
Concord, NH 03301
603-228-5444
America’s Priceless Ground Water Resource
Description: Pamphlet describes what groundwater is, how
it occurs and how it is developed, utilized and protected.
Target Audience: General public, high school and college
students.
Domestic Water Treatment for Homeowners
Description: Pamphlet describes common water quality
problems and their solutions.
Target Audience: General public.
Groundwater Pollution Control
Description: Pamphlet describes sources of groundwater pollution, technical controls, aquifer restoration and groundwater rehabilitation.
Target Audience: General public, high school and college
students.
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Farmstead Sources of Toxic Contaminants
Environmental Resources Center
Contact:
Environmental Resources Center
Room 210, Hiram Smith Hall
1545 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1289
608-262-0020
Description: Article describes proper storage, handling and
use of pesticides; handling and disposal of household and
farmstead hazardous waste; petroleum storage tanks, especially
those underground with the potential to contaminate groundwater.
Target Audience: General public, educators, high school and college students.
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Pipeline
National Small Flows Clearinghouse
Contact:
National Small Flows Clearinghouse
West Virginia University/NRCCE
P.O. Box 6064
Morgantown, WV 26506-6064
800-624-8301
Description: Published quarterly, this newsletter focuses
on explaining small community wastewater issues to the
general public.
Target Audience: General public, environmental health
professionals, educators, high school and college students.
Pipeline - Fall 1995
Description: The focus is on maintaining a septic system.
Pipeline answers some basic questions about septic system
maintenance, including why the system should be maintained,
how to maintain it and pumping the septic tank. A list of
septic system dos and don’ts is also included.
Order item #SFPLNL03.
Target Audience: General public, environmental health
professionals.
Small Flows
Description: Published quarterly, Small Flows focuses on
wastewater needs of small communities, including individual
residential septic systems.
Target Audience: Local and state government personnel that
regulate wastewater treatment facilities, environmental
health professionals and educators.
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Groundwater Section, Kentucky Division of Water
Preventing Groundwater Pollution: Auto Repair Shops
Electronic Version
Description: Fact sheet briefly discusses groundwater
protection plans, addresses activities associated with
auto repair shops that have the potential to pollute
groundwater, provides best management practices to address
those activities and gives sources of additional information.
Target Audience: Persons engaged in auto maintenance and
repair.
Preventing Groundwater Pollution: Automobile and Other Salvage Yards
Electronic Version
Description: Fact sheet briefly discusses groundwater
protection plans, addresses activities associated with
auto and other salvage yards that have the potential to
pollute groundwater and provides best management practices
to address those activities.
Target Audience: Persons engaged in salvage yard business.
Preventing Groundwater Pollution: Oil and Gas Producers
Electronic Version
Description: Fact sheet briefly discusses groundwater
protection plans, addresses activities associated with
oil and gas production that have the potential to pollute
groundwater, provides best management practices to address
those activities and gives sources of additional information.
Target Audience: Oil and gas producers, general public.
Preventing Groundwater Pollution: Secondary Containment
Electronic Version
Description: Fact sheet discusses pathways that hazardous
substances and polluting materials can take to reach
groundwater, methods of secondary containment, construction
materials for secondary containment structures and
illustrations of the various types of containment structures.
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Water Conservation in Your Home
American Ground Water Trust
Contact:
American Ground Water Trust
16 Centre St.
Concord, NH 03301
603-228-5444
Description: Pamphlet explains why we need to conserve
water in the home and offers practical suggestions for
saving water indoors and out.
Target Audience: General public.
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What is Ground Water?
U.S. Geological Survey Open File Report 93-643
Contact:
U.S. Geological Survey
Water Resources Division
12201 Sunrise Valley Drive
Reston, VA 20192
703-648-5035
Description: Fact sheet explains what groundwater is,
what an aquifer is, who uses groundwater, how groundwater
is obtained, sources of pollution. Illustrations.
Target Audience: Elementary and middle school students,
general public.
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When You Need a Water Well
American Ground Water Trust
Contact:
American Ground Water Trust
16 Centre St.
Concord, NH 03301
603-228-5444
Description: This pamphlet is a guide to planning a good,
dependable water supply system, including selecting a
certified water well driller and sizing the pumping equipment.
Target Audience: General public
Note: For information on certified water well drillers in your area, contact:
Joe Moffitt
Well Drillers Certification Program
Groundwater Section
502-564-3410
For More Information Contact:
Pat Keefe
200 Fair Oaks Lane
Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone: 502-564-3410
Fax: 502-564-9636
E-mail: pat.keefe@ky.gov
