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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Tuesday, January 13,
2009<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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pm</FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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face="Times New Roman">(Registration and breakfast at 8:30 am)</FONT></SPAN></P>
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align=center><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><?xml:namespace prefix =
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w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Conference</B></st1:PlaceName><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></B></st1:place><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">, Cape Cod & Islands Association of
Realtors<o:p></o:p></B></FONT></FONT></P>
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align=center><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">22
Mid-Tech Drive</B></st1:address></st1:Street><B
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align=center><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">West
Yarmouth</B></st1:City><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">, <st1:State
w:st="on">MA</st1:State> <st1:PostalCode
w:st="on">02673</st1:PostalCode></B></st1:place><B
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U>Description</U></B>:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On <st1:place w:st="on">Cape
Cod</st1:place>, protecting water quality is critically important for ensuring
safe drinking water supplies, swimming beaches, shellfish, aquaculture, and
recreation.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Federal and state water
quality standards also require communities to treat and manage stormwater runoff
to prevent pollution of water bodies.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>However, municipal stormwater management requires investment in trained
staff, infrastructure improvements, maintenance, and management systems.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Finding the funding to manage stormwater
runoff to meet state and federal water quality standards is a challenge.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Traditional sources of funding (state
and federal grants) are typically not enough to address all of a community’s
stormwater management needs.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">This free workshop will provide an overview of a
different approach to stormwater financing used by many communities throughout
the U.S. -- stormwater utilities and fee-based systems.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The workshop will cover the basics of
stormwater utilities:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>the
definition and purpose of a stormwater utility, how it works, how stormwater
financing can help a municipality to meet stormwater regulatory requirements,
national examples, types of communities that use this approach, determining
whether a stormwater utility makes sense for your community, integrated water
resource utilities, the Massachusetts experience with stormwater utilities,
typical municipal stormwater management costs, and how to set up and implement a
stormwater utility bylaw.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The
workshop will end with a summary of the results of a Cape-wide survey of public
works departments to determine their stormwater management needs and possible
regional solutions to stormwater management.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U>Target
audience</U></B>:<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Municipal and
County departments and boards (e.g., DPW directors, stormwater managers, town
engineers, Boards of Selectmen, Town Councils, finance committees, wastewater
managers, drinking water managers, Conservation Commissions, Planning and Health
boards, consultants and engineering firms, and environmental organizations
interested in water quality.</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U>Cost</U></B>:<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There is no charge to attend; however,
registration is required.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>To
register electronically, visit </FONT></FONT><A
href="http://www.apcc.org/"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>www.apcc.org</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> and under the
<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Calendar</B> on the right hand side of
the webpage, click on “<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">More Events</B>”,
then under “<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Stormwater Financing
Workshop</B>”, click on “<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">More info</B>”
and then click on “<B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">RSVP</B>”.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For more information, or contact Dr. Jo
Ann Muramoto at (508) 362-4227 ext. 16 or </FONT><A
href="mailto:jmuramoto@apcc.org"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3>jmuramoto@apcc.org</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=3><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Sponsored by: the Association to Preserve Cape Cod
(APCC), the Massachusetts Bays Program on Cape Cod, Cape Cod Commission’s
Project Storm, and the Barnstable County Coastal Resources Committee, with
funding from the Massachusetts Environmental Trust.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Arial
size=2><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">Jo Ann Muramoto, Ph.D.<BR>Massachusetts
Bays Program Regional Coordinator for Cape Cod<BR>Association to Preserve Cape
Cod<BR>3010 Main Street, P.O. Box 398<BR>Barnstable, MA 02630-0398<BR>Ph: (508)
362-4226, Fax: (508) 362-4227, E-mail: <A
href="mailto:jmuramoto@apcc.org">jmuramoto@apcc.org</A> </SPAN></FONT></FONT><o:p></o:p></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>