Webinar: Is a Water Quality Trading Program Right for Your Facility?
September 11, 2014 - Portland OR USThe Freshwater Trust
danielle@thefreshwatertrust.org
Phone:5032229091
Join Alex Johnson of The Freshwater Trust to explore how a water quality trading program might be the right solution for meeting your Clean Water Act compliance obligations. Water quality trading programs can bring together a watershed’s dischargers for a holistic approach to improving water quality, restoring habitat and applying public money in more cost-effective and ecologically appropriate ways. This informative webinar will cover: • What is water quality trading and who can participate (regulated entities, farmers, landowners, others) • How your local ecology as well as your projected future exceedance factor into the size and cost of a trading • When and why you should conduct a feasibility analysis and identify gaps • How to determine if you should move ahead and develop a WQT program for your facility • How to build an RFP and manage a WQT program to achieve compliance Alex will provide examples of successful water quality trading programs for wastewater utilities, including the temperature programs for the Cities of Medford and Eugene/Springfield, OR. Ongoing feasibility studies with the Cities of Santa Rosa, CA and Meridian, ID will also be discussed, as well as a phosphorus trading project in the Klamath Basin. These examples all use a “brokered transaction model” for developing credits and implementing water quality trading programs.