# Presentation: 560855

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2006 EPA Innovations Forum 

Community Partnerships for Water Quality Protection

Fenix Grange
Agency Toxics Coordinator
Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
grange.fenix@deq.state.or.us

**2006 EPA Innovations Forum **
**Community Partnerships for Water Quality Protection**
- Fenix Grange
- Agency Toxics Coordinator
- Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
- grange.fenix@deq.state.or.us

## Using the performance partnership agreement to focus efforts on toxics reduction

## 2004 PPA – Toxics component

- Funding Agency Toxic Coordinator
**Focus on pilot projects**
- Available data review and toxics prioritization

## 2004 PPA – Toxics component

**Focus on pilot projects**
**  ****Pesticide Stewardship Partnerships**
-   Stormwater mgmt
-   HWG wastewater management
-   Abandoned mines

## PSP Problem Statement:Current use pesticides are tough to regulate  - 9,500 registered formulations in Oregon

## Pilot Project Approach:Collaborative partnerships and voluntary actions can lead to measurable environmental improvements

## Hood River and The Dalles

## Hood River Story

- Temperature TMDL development and local concerns about ESA fish listings
- Local partners worked together on better pesticide management of two key insecticides
- WQ monitoring led to change in management practices
- Ongoing improvements in WQ

## Hood River - Lower Neal Creek Spring Sampling

**Hood River - Lower Neal Creek Spring Sampling**
**Chlorpyrifos - Average, Maximum, and Frequency of Detection**

- Chloryprifos Chronic AWQC = 0.041 ug/L

## The Dalles

- Cherry growing region near Hood River
- Wy’East Resource Conservation and Development Area secured BPA funding
- Used DEQ WQ monitoring to measure IPM and BMP effectiveness
- Ongoing improvements in WQ
- 50% reduction in farmer reported use of malathion

## The Dalles – Fifteen Mile Creek Spring Sampling

- Zollner Creek at USGS Gauge

**The Dalles – Fifteen Mile Creek Spring Sampling**
**Chlorpyrifos  & Malathion Concentrations**

**Excerpted from:**** Fifteenmile Creek Orchard Pesticide Pollution Risk Study**
**2004 Annual Report**

## Taking the show on the road - 2005

-   Dryland orchards
-   Row crops
-   **High intensity, mixed use ag lands**
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**Taking the show on the road - 2005**

## Pudding & Clackamas River Partnerships

-  Complex, high intensity ag and rural residential
- Multiple stakeholders at the table
-   Early data show different pesticide patterns
-  Engage local expertise to solve both types of    	problems
- Address other pesticide/WQ issues raised
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**Pudding & Clackamas River Partnerships**

## Key Components

- Local buy-in is crucial
- Use local expertise to identify sources and solutions
- Provide effectiveness monitoring for IPM programs
- Use both WQ and crop quality to measure success
- Measurable results for real problems

## Looking ahead2006 PPA

**Focus on pilot projects**
**  **Pesticide Stewardship Partnerships
-   Add drinking water protection
-   Other land uses
- Anonymous/free legacy pesticide collections
- Stormwater mgmt
- EPA Columbia River Toxics Reduction    	Effort

## Looking aheadFunding the work

**Pilots funded to date**
-  319 grants
-  104 (b) to support TMDL development
-  Limited state/regional funding sources
**Long term outlook?**
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