Regional Water Quality Management Plan Update
Public Involvement Approach
The Commission’s public involvement goal is to ensure early and continuous public notification about regional water quality planning activities, provide meaningful information concerning such work, and obtain participation in and input to regional water quality planning efforts. In short, public involvement will be essential to the conduct of the regional water quality management plan update.
The public involvement activities are being focused through the use of advisory committees, cooperative actions with related ongoing public involvement efforts, and other public involvement and watershed education programming.
It should be noted that MMSD and the Commission have developed and initiated a joint public involvement program for a number of key purposes, including joint activity planning and public events, several shared committees, and deferring to one another as appropriate in the preparation of informational and educational materials that both programs can utilize. Examples of the latter are newsletters and “State of the Watershed” booklets and pictorial tour maps produced by MMSD under its Water Quality Initiative.