Applying Community Technology Today (ACTT) Project
The Applying Community Technology Today (ACTT) project provided the opportunity to identify and test technologies that can be useful to small communities interested in minimizing drinking water threats. A document reviewing the technologies tested and discussing the lessons learned during the project (which concluded in 2003) is available from The Groundwater Foundation.
Communities from Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, and Wisconsin participated in the ACTT project. These communities used different technologies and received training to get started with their contaminant source inventories (CSIs). They then evaluated the technologies for their usefulness when conducting a CSI. The community evaluations of each technology were incorporated into a Primer titled Using Technology to Conduct a Contaminant Source Inventory: A Primer for Small Communities.
The Primer allows other communities and public water suppliers to select and preview the effectiveness of technologies that have proved useful for conducting a CSI. For example, technologies such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Global Positioning Systems (GPS) allow communities to accurately obtain, manage, and update data that help identify potential contaminant sources within a source water protection area. This information can then be used to develop a plan to protect a community's drinking water supplies.
The ACTT Project was funded by the Public Entity Risk Institute in Fairfax, Virginia.
Using Technology to Conduct a Contaminant Source Inventory:
A Primer for Small Communities
