Goal 4 Healthy Communities

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Goal 4 Healthy Communities
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U.S./Mexico Border
San Antonio Necua Community Member Tests New Well
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Quitovac Community Sonora, Mexico
Tohono Oodham Nation
School system serviced by windmill
Baboquivari Intertie Project
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Pechanga Indian Reservation
Trunk Sewer Construction
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Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians
Water System Improvements
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Cocopah Indian Tribe
Riparian Restoration Project Before
Riparian Restoration Project After
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Border training

• Capacity building for water systems for Baja
  communities (Paula S.)
• Need continual funding for recurring border
  issues
• Need a long term plan for continually cleaning up
  solid waste in the border area.

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Environmental Health

• EPA has many small programs - lead screening,
  radon, asbestos, etc.
• There is a need for coordinated outreach on human
  health issues.
• Should be environmental health components in
  tribal environmental programs lead screening,
  indoor air, tools for schools, working with
  health clinics, pesticides assessments,
  integrated pest management.
• EPA needs to do more outreach on human health, in
  coordination with ATSDR, IHS.
• Paula S. will rewrite this.

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Environmental Health

• Pesticides
• Training for physicians and clinics to recognize
  exposure to pesticides and other chemicals
  poisonings
• Drinking water/Wastewater
• Source water protection for all drinking water
  sources
• Improved treatment/septic systems to prevent
  possible drinking water/groundwater contamination
• Air
• Studies of asthma triggers on tribal lands
• Conduct indoor and outdoor air monitoring
• Lead
• Testing of blood levels in children
• Inspections of tribal homes for lead
  contamination
• Solid Waste
• Reduction of illegal dumps
• Improved solid waste management plans
• Capacity building for ALL environmental health
  issues!

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Protecting Children from Lead Poisoning
The Tribal Blood Lead Screening and Outreach
Program screened 45 children
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Pesticide Regulation
Tribal Agricultural Land
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Hopi Tribe
Integrated Pest Management Workshop