Exit Interview

(1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers?  What is your best answer and why?
      What is the best technique to implement stormwater regulations as it relates to the Clean Water Act (CWA)?
      Answer 1: One of the best techniques to implement stormwater regulations as it relates to the Clean Water Act is by public education.
      Answer 2: Another best way to implement stormwater regulations as it relates to the Clean Water Act is by building the community.
      Answer 3: The last best way to implement stormwater regulations as it relates to the Clean Water Act is by developing manuals and handbooks for industrial and commercial facilities.
My best answer is my first answer, public education, because people need to know what they are doing to cause stormwater pollution and what they effects are. They also need to know how they can help solve the problem. Educating the public is the answer to my other three answers.

(2) What process did you take to arrive at this answer?
      It actually didn't take me that long to think that this was my best answer. I actually thought that it would be my first answer to begin with. As I was coming up with my other two answers I was thinking that you need to educate the public first before you can build the community or develop manuals and handbooks.  It did not take me long at all  to figure out that public education would be my best answer.

(3) What problems did you face?  How did you resolve them?
      I really didn't face any problems. The main problem I had was too find good research to use because stormwater isn't exactly a very interesting subject that supplies all this kind of information. For a while I was having trouble finding good articles online, but one day my mentor gave me all these magazines with great articles talking about what is going on in different cities and how they are coping with stormwater pollution. Those magazines really helped a lot.

(4) What are the two most significant sources you used to answer your essential question and why?
      The two most significant sources I used to answer my essential question were my mentor and a gentleman named Steve Groner, he owns Steve Groner and Associates. Groner really helped me come up with my second answer, he is very intelligent when it comes to stormwater pollution. My mentor is really great because he has worked in the stormwater field for about twenty years and has helped me with so much of my senior project work.