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Collaborative Cleanups
The purpose of the Collaborative Cleanups initiative is to encourage partnerships among stakeholders to protect, restore, and revitalize land and water resources. Two conferences were held in 2005 and 2006 to develop practical actions for collaborating more effectively. At these conferences a diverse set of stakeholders from community, state, federal, tribal, non-government, and private organizations convened to:
- Identify common goals and areas of interaction among groups involved with:
- watershed management and protection
- cleanup and reuse of contaminated land, sediment, and groundwater
- protection of drinking water sources
- management of local collaborative environmental processes
- Showcase successful on-the-ground collaborative processes that improve local water and land resource protection
- Capitalize on knowledge and experience of participants to move collaboration forward
- Brainstorm and problem solve solutions to significant barriers and challenges
- Coordinate inter-governmental and public policy and program implementation
- Improve land and water environmental programs for better environmental, economic, and social results in watersheds and communities.