[SustainableNC] Guidance for Non-Essential Water Use in NC State Government

[Sharron Rogers]

[Please note the following transmittal letter that was sent to all state
agency heads this afternoon.  If you are not the main contact for your
agency, please check in with whomever is.   Agenda for the NC Project Green
Advisory Team meeting for next Thursday, August 29 (more details shortly)
will revolve around agency and university responses and opportunities to
conserve water and a status report on drought levels across the state.
Please plan on attending or sending a representative next Thursday (distant
universities, we understand)]   Sharron
 
 
 
On August 15, Governor Easley signed Executive Order No. 26, Water System
Protection, directing each state government agency to identify
and discontinue "non-essential" water use until further notice. 
 
The Water System Protection Team, established under the executive order, has
developed the attached guidance materials to assist in your compliance and
to support successful implementation. The "Initial Guidance Materials for
State Agency Non-Essential Water Use" are also posted at: is
<http://www.sustainablenc.org/water.htm>
http://www.sustainablenc.org/water.htm .  During the development of these
guidelines, several areas of interpretation have been raised and are still
being reviewed. Additional materials and guidance on those specific areas
will be shared as they are developed. The information posted on the Web
address listed above will be updated as well.
 
Also attached are guidelines regarding water restrictions and athletic field
maintenance developed by Dr. Art Bruneau with the Department of
Crop Science at North Carolina State University. 
 
The Governor's executive order directed the team to monitor state agency
compliance.  To help us meet that directive, please send a report on your
agency's actions to discontinue "non-essential" water use and "immediately
develop and begin implementing long-term financially feasible conservation
measures" by Aug. 30 to Sharron Rogers in the Division of Pollution
Prevention and Environmental Assistance at
<mailto:sharron.rogers at ncmail.net> sharron.rogers at ncmail.net. Sharron can be
reached at (919) 715-6526 if you have questions about the guidance materials
or the report on your progress in implementing the executive order. 
 
Please share this information with members of your staff. It is important
that we lead by example in water conservation throughout state
government.
 
Sincerely,
 
Bryan Beatty, Secretary, N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public
Safety 
 
Bill Ross, Secretary N.C. Department of Environment and Natural
Resources

 

 
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