1. Provide information and education programs and materials to bring about public awareness by sponsoring tours and workshops, producing pamphlets and placing news articles in local media, and using displays to demonstrate progress in the watershed. 2. Implement BMPs by using the Water Quality Incentive Program (WQIP) 3. Develop an irrigation water management program using a dielectric moisture measuring probe which will be used as a tool at approximately 350 sites to reduce overirrigation which results in deep percolation and leaching of salts and nutrients into the groundwater. 4. Hire seasonal technical assistance for approximately five months of the year to install moisture probe sites, monitor the sites with the dielectric moisture probe, and collect water samples for return flow monitoring. 5. Continue to fund and collect the water quality testing on wells and return flows in the area which includes monitoring return flows on a quarterly basis, and testing domestic wells on a semi-annual basis. To improve water quality in the Sun River drainage. The project will show how utilizing BMPs can improve both surface and groundwater quality and reduce farm inputs. The project will also establish an information network to educate and inform the people of the Sun River Drainage on the relationship between irrigation, agricultural activities, and water quality
