Tribe: Yurok Tribe
View Source Document: Yurok Tribe: Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Water and Aquatic Resources
Year: 2014
Topic: Water system management adaptation strategies (View All Topics in the Plan)
Finalize Yurok Environmental Ordinance that specifies human sewage dumping regulations (WHO 2012).
Plan for increased staffing requirements for future climate change. More monitoring time may be needed, more emergency personnel may be...
Consider developing Yurok ordinance to require owners to fence in livestock.
Develop and recruit governing board to insure PWS maintenance, monitoring, and procedures required by US Safe Drinking Water Act requirements...
Investigate whether remotely monitored and operated package plant water treatment systems could be useful in a Yurok context and increase...
If cost of installing distribution lines is prohibitive, explore Point of Entry treatment systems (home treatment systems) run by a...
Modify treatment processes to handle increased sediment loads, for example by building detention ponds to allow solids to settle before...
If harmful algal blooms become an increasing problem, investigate the possibility of modifying treatment processes to include powdered activated carbon...
Ensure that adequate disinfectant levels without excessive disinfection byproducts are maintained in PWS storage and distribution systems as these may...
