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Clean Water

Clean water is everyone's responsibility. One of the core goals of the SWAC is to inform individuals about how to protect the environment.

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Rain Gardens

Rain gardens can be used to intercept pollutants in urban runoff, as well as beautify surrounding areas. This rain garden was installed at Riverside Elementary in Jeffersonville.

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Consider Volunteering

Volunteers make huge contributions to improving water quality. At community clean-up events, illegally dumped material is removed to restore creeks and streams to their natural beauty.

5 Ways You Can Contribute to Good Water Quality
5 Ways You Can Contribute to Good Water Quality

If you have a medicine cabinet bursting with unused medications you don’t know what to do with, or you want to cry every time you look at your dead tomato plants, we have the solutions for you!

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About SWAC

The primary mission of the SWAC has been to protect and improve water quality in southern Indiana.

Imagine yourself standing in a huge shopping center parking lot in a torrential downpour. If you could collect all the water streaming off the parking lot, would you swim in that water? Would you drink it? Not likely. Yet that stormwater is almost certainly polluting our streams, rivers, and lakes. Because if it’s on the ground, it’s in our water –the same water bodies we rely on for recreation and even drinking water supplies.

SWAC Mission

The Southern Indiana Stormwater Advisory Committee is a regional partnership whose core function is to guide stormwater quality programs in a cost-effective, consistent and efficient manner; striving through collaborative efforts to educate all constituents, encourage involvement, and implement new planning approaches to improve the quality of life for the region, and thus society now and into the future.

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Each year, more deaths occur due to flooding than from any other thunderstorm related hazard. A mere 6 inches of fast-moving flood water can knock over an adult. It takes just 12 inches of rushing water to carry away a small car, while 2 feet of rushing water can carry away most vehicles. It is NEVER safe to drive or walk into flood waters (from the National Weather Service).

Recent Announcements

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Draft Permit Watch

The Indiana NPDES Phase II MS4 General Permit and Construction Stormwater General Permit are anticipated to be released soon. The SWAC is keeping an eye out for news.