IDDE Toolkit for Clean Water Protection Outreach
CWA is committed to working closely with our Member Agencies to improve Oregon’s water quality. We are excited to provide our members access to an educational and action-focused illicit discharge detection and elimination (IDDE) water quality protection outreach toolkit. This toolkit was developed through a collaboration of ACWA’s Stormwater, Groundwater, Water Quality, Pretreatment, and Education Committees. Use this toolkit to promote: spill prevention; best practices in landscaping by residents and professional landscapers; effective RV waste management; proper food service practices; and best practices by at-home, including car and pressure washing and hazardous materials disposal.
The toolkit, which includes posters, flyers, radio and television scripts, and press releases, is available for members to download, print, and distribute within their respective communities. A space is available on each piece for member agencies to add contact information.
While these materials were developed for agencies with Underground Injection Control (UIC) permits, Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) permits, and Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) implementation plans, they apply to your agency, regardless of region or regulatory status. We hope they will resonate with all audiences across Oregon. In addition to supporting individual agencies’ regulatory requirements, the material supports our collective mission to protect Oregon’s water quality.
General Resources:
The files below are available only to ACWA members.
You can learn about membership here.
We hope you will put these products to good use…keeping water safe and clean in your community. Questions regarding the materials can be directed to the ACWA Education Committee Chair, Holly Tichenor, at htichenor@wsc-inc.com.
Landscaping
- Hiring a Landscaper
- (Handout – 8.5 x 11 or Door Hanger)
- Audience: Homeowners
- Details: Home landscape infographic, targeting homeowners looking to obtain professional landscape services.
- Landscape Maintenance
- (Handout – 8.5 x 11)
- Audience: Landscapers
- Details: Commercial landscape services brochures, which could be distributed at a local Oregon Landscape Contractors Association meeting, used in a direct mailing with a letter of introduction using yellow pages listings if a business database is not available, or distributed at local outreach events.
SPILL RESPONSE
- Spill and Leak Cleanup
- (Handout – 8.5 x 11)
- Audience: Homeowners
- Details: Small Spill and Leak Prevention/Clean-up Fact Sheet
Pressure Washing
- Surface Cleaning Best Practices
- (Handout – 8.5 x 11, Equipment Tag – 4.5 x 6)
- Audience: Homeowners, Equipment Owners/Renters
- Details: A hanger or tag that can be attached to rental or for-sale pressure washing equipment.
FOOD SERVICE
- Food Service Best Practices
- (Handout – 8.5 x 11)
- Audience: Food Service Staff
- Details: Food Service fact sheet to target employees at food service establishments.
- Dos and Don’ts for Food Service Employees
- (Poster – 8.5 x 24)
- Audience: Food Service Staff
- Details: Food Service poster, to be posted at food service establishments.
RECREATIONAL VEHICLES
- Proper Maintenance and Disposal
- (Handout – 8.5 x 11)
- Audience: RV Owners/Renters
- Details: Fact sheet that can be printed on a tear-off pad to accompany rental and sales materials or placement at dumping sites.
RADIO AND TELEVISION
- Pressure Washing
- (Video Script)
- Details: Radio script for reducing general home activity pollutants.
- Car Grease and Oil
- (Radio Commercial)
- Audience: Homeowners
- Details: Radio script for reducing car oil change illicit discharges.
- Where Does Our Stormwater Go?
- (Radio Commercial)
- Details: Radio script for reducing general home activity pollutants.