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Clean Coastal and Ocean Waters

Significant impacts to water quality and coastal ecosystem health are predicted as a result of population growth and land use change, increasing urbanization, point and non‐point source pollution, and climate change. The Alliance will undertake activities to:

• Enable coastal managers and decision‐makers to predict, prevent, enforce, respond, and mitigate ecosystem and human health impacts; and
  
  
• Provide consistent data through integrated coastal and ocean observing and monitoring system.

Prioritized Action Items, Sept. 2011

• CCOW1A - Establish a regional technical level work group for the purpose of sharing watershed water quality improvement processes.
  
  
• CCOW1C - Develop recommendations on processes and protocols to transfer knowledge/implement BMPs for point and non-point source controls, and to encourage smart growth and green infrastructure (including monitoring-based performance measures). Potential focus is TMDLs.

Technical Team

Lead Mentor: Brad Gane, GA DNR; brad.gane@dnr.state.ga.us
Additional Mentor - Becky Prado, FL Department of Environmental Protection
Additional Mentor - Ginny Fay, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service
Additional Mentor - Eric Strom, US Geological Survey

State Leads:
NC – Dianne Reid, NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources
SC – David Wilson, Bureau of Water, SCDHEC
GA – Kelly O’Rourke; Coastal Resource Specialist, GA DNR
FL - Mike Shirley; Department of Environmental Protection

Members:
Lauren Flynn - FL Dept. of Environmental Protection
Shannon K. Berry - SC Department of Health and Environmental Control
Mihir Mehta - SC Department of Health and Environmental Control
David Graves - SC Department of Health and Environmental Control
Geoff Scott - NOAA Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research
Shawnielle Campbell-Dunbar - US Environmental Protection Agency
Andrea Zimmer - US Environmental Protection Agency