Title:

G99-NPS-13 Wellhead Protection Program Phase I

Sponsor:

Cape Girardeau County Health Department

Project Manager:

Jonell McNeely
1211 Linden St.
Cape Girardeau, MO 63703
573-243-4716
JLMCNEELY@prodigy.net

Project Period:

7/1/1999 - 12/31/2000

319 Grant Funds:

$1,800

Project Description:

Wellhead Protection Program Phase I

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) has awarded an $1,800 minigrant to the Cape Girardeau County Health Department to support a wellhead protection program in cooperation with the Cape Girardeau County Groundwater Guardians (a project of the League of Women Voters of Southwest Missouri). This grant will allow the Guardians to construct a karst model that can be used as a visual aide at local exhibits as an educational tool. In addition to the karst model, funds will be used to complete an inventory of potential threats to groundwater for the area public community and non-community drinking water supplies.

PRODUCTS AND OBJECTIVES

Through distribution of informational materials and by setting up displays at local fairs and other public gathering places, county residents will be encouraged to inventory their own private well sites. In 1999, the Guardians are entering their fifth year of bringing information about local groundwater and the need to protect that supply for the future. One of the serious underlying concerns in the county is the karst topography, which could turn a localized water quality hazard into a regional problem.

Project period: July 1, 1999--December 31, 2000

PROJECT SPONSOR

Cape Girardeau County Health Department

COOPERATING AGENCIES

Cape Girardeau County Groundwater Guardians (a project of the League of Women Voters of Southwest Missouri)

CONTACT

Cape Girardeau County Health Department
1121 Linden St.
Cape Girardeau, MO 63703
Jonell McNeely
telephone: 573-243-4716
email: JLMCNEELY@prodigy.net