1. Overview Area-Wide Optimization Programs (AWOPs) Region 3 Multi-State Quarterly Meeting Martinsburg, WV - June 4 and 5, 2003

2. Presentation Overview
Review from last meeting
Why optimize?
What is AWOP?
What we are trying to accomplish?
How we will work together?
Quarterly meeting process
Roadmap of activities

3. Milwaukee Disease Outbreak 1993

4. Area-Wide Optimization Program
What Worked?
What Action Needed?
What Didn’t Work?
What Action Needed?

5. AWOP Components
Status
Targeted
Performance
Improvement
Maintenance

6. AWOP Impacts Multi-State Pilot Programs
State program benefits
Impact individual plant performance
Impact plant performance state-wide

7. AWOP Impacts State Program Benefits
Results in long-term improved performance and enhanced public health protection
Enhanced staff capability and motivation
State and plant staff understand role in public health protection
Provides small systems tools for meeting or exceeding compliance
Develops human infrastructure to more effectively implement new regulations (LT2, DBPs)

9. Impacts of AWOP Activities in LA
CPE
CPE #2
CPE #1(11/95)

10. AWOP Impacts State-Wide Plant Performance - SC

11. AWOP Impacts State-Wide Population - SC

12. Basic Operating Principles
Win/Win or No Deal
Learn as We Go
Measurable Impact at Plant Level
Multi-State Quarterly Meetings
Region and States Move at Their Own Speed
OGWDW Support Based on Progress and Funding

13. AWOP Quarterly Meetings

14. Region 3 Multi-State AWOP Roadmap
Year #1 - Status Component
Adopt goals
Develop prioritization approach
Develop baseline status of plants
Years #2 and #3 - TPI Component
Assess state technical tools
CPE training
PBT training

15. Region 3 Multi-State AWOP Roadmap (con’t)
Year #4 - Maintenance Component
Assess lessons learned
Develop potential enhancements
Year #5 and Beyond - Sustain State AWOPs
Regular multi-state meetings to maintain commitment
Introduction of new technical tools

16. Quarterly Meeting Focus
Developed through nominal group process
Changes based on current findings, state progress, etc.
TSC/PAI will normally introduce tools and workshops to aid in development
The following represents an ideal sequence for each of the next few years

17. Quarterly Meeting Focus Year 1
Obtain management support
Send Letters to water systems
Develop prioritization criteria
Identify plants and data sources
Quarterly Meeting #2
Develop status component spreadsheet
Decide on data entry procedures
Populate spreadsheet
Develop baseline status of plants

18. Quarterly Meeting Focus Year 1 (con’t)
Present status procedures and baseline report
Develop annual report
Introduce TPI component approach
Quarterly Meeting #4
Present baseline annual report
Decide on TPI activities