Topic: Water system management adaptation strategies

Associated Climate Resilience Actions:
Yurok Tribe

Develop outreach materials to inform community members about the signs and dangers off waterborne pathogens.

Yurok Tribe

Explore agreements or obtain rights to water sources that may become important in the future with climate change.

Yurok Tribe

Devise/update Water Pollution Control Plan to strengthen protections of water quantity & quality (WHO 2012).

Yurok Tribe

Identify and repair leaks in all systems to minimize water loss and contaminant infiltration (WHO 2012).

Yurok Tribe

Finalize Yurok Environmental Ordinance that specifies human sewage dumping regulations (WHO 2012).

Yurok Tribe

Plan for increased staffing requirements for future climate change. More monitoring time may be needed, more emergency personnel may be...

Yurok Tribe

Consider developing Yurok ordinance to require owners to fence in livestock.

Yurok Tribe

Increase storage capacity by adding additional tanks for private and public systems.

Yurok Tribe

Develop Yurok standards for septic systems governing minimum distance between leach field bottom and top of the groundwater table considering...

Yurok Tribe

Investigate methods to enhance natural ground water storage, for example through the use of permeable surfaces so that rainfall can...

Yurok Tribe

Upgrade the land use plan to include source water protection actions (Yurok Planning Department).

Yurok Tribe

Investigate the installation of off-grid power sources in upriver systems to allow for the use of remote sensing monitoring instruments...