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Date: Thursday, June 11, 2015 5:01:00 PM All— Hope you’re enjoying the beginning of summer. It’s starting to be warm enough to call it summer. Last week the Web ReDesign for the Water tab/category was launched. In the past, DEQ web pages have been difficult to maneuver and not very intuitive to use. We hope that this effort fixes some of those problems. While not perfect, staff have tried to anticipate the many ways that people might be searching for information. You’ll see that there a now multiple paths to get to the same endpoint. If you have suggestions for further improvements, we’d love to hear them. This will continue to be a work in progress. Monday, | attended the Director’s visit to the Jackson district office. This was the first of the Director’s new format for district visits and it went really well. Mitch Adelman, along with the JDO supervisors, invited a diverse group of stakeholders to meet with the Director and share their thoughts, issues and concerns as part of a roundtable discussion. All had favorable things to say about the department and the staff that they work with. Revolving Loan staff were mentioned several times as being particularly helpful! After lunch, | had the opportunity to meet with our Jackson office staff one-on-one. | appreciated the chance to hear directly from each one. Tuesday, the DEQ’s Office of the Great Lakes today released a draft water strategy built around a 30-year vision for ensuring Michigan’s water resources support healthy ecosystems, residents, communities and economies. The draft Strategy was developed in collaboration with a steering committee consisting of the Departments of Environmental Quality and Natural Resources, Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, and Michigan Economic Development Corporation. ODWMA participated in development of the draft strategy. You'll see discussion regarding drinking water, source water protection, on-site wastewater systems, and infrastructure in general. | encourage everyone to read the document. The water strategy is not directed solely to the state, but will require participation from a wide array of individuals and organizations including business, industry, academia, private philanthropy, environment and conservation organizations, tribal and local governments, the legislature and others to be successfully implemented. Everyone will have a role as this moves forward. A brown bag lunch is planned for July 10", Meetings with the Office of Auditor General continued this week. The auditors met with staff in the contamination investigation program and the on-site wastewater program as part of their preliminary information gathering. xxxEND_PAGE:deq04_b060_1918_1919_1 We participated in a semi-annual call with U.S. EPA Region 5 public water supply program this week. Conversation focused on commitments and disinvestments for the upcoming fiscal year. Most of the discussion focused on lead and copper sampling, notification, and reporting particularly as it relates to the Noncommunity water supply program. In some cases, we were able to reach agreement regarding changes, in some we agree to disagree for now. Steve Busch and Mike Prysby were on hand to provide an update on the city of Flint. Lansing District Office sent out a violation notice this week to Flint for a continued violation of the LRAA (locational running annual average) for TTHM (total trinalomethanes). The good news is that all of the eight samples this quarter were below the 80 ppb standard. Unfortunately, one location continues to exceed the LRAA for TTHM because of the high results last August. Staff continue to work with the city to resolve the problem. We had an interesting campground program issue this week. At the request of one of our county health departments, we recently sent correspondence to an unlicensed campground that has been recalcitrant for more than 15 years. They hold a large event each year over the labor day weekend, but have done so without either a permanent or a temporary campground license. Unfortunately, the campground does not have an approved water supply. ODWMA staff met with the campground owners, along with the Director and the legislator that they contacted. It appears that they now understand that they need to provide an approved water source and be properly licensed for the event. Success! Have a good weekend. Liane xxxEND_PAGE:deq04_b060_1918_1919_2