与全国许多城市一样，佐治亚州哥伦布正在进行流域研究，以遵守美国水法，包括《清洁水法案》和《安全饮用水法案》。后者要求各州和水资源供应商制定水源评估和保护计划。这些项目的目的是建立饮用水污染的预防屏障。基本方案包括:潜在危险清单；饮水敏感性评估；以及防止污染的策略。所有这些努力都必须为公众提供帮助指导决策的机会- 制作过程。哥伦布水厂（CWW）与州际利益相关者采取了一种区域性方法，以实现对这两项法律的遵守。这些研究的结果将为其他社区提供指导。研究结果表明，流域监测需要可靠的科学数据，以正确表示或模拟流域的动态，并实施保护战略，提供所需的预防屏障，还能够衡量流域的恢复情况。包括3个参考文献、图表。

Like many cities around the country, Columbus, Georgia, is conducting watershed studies to comply with US water laws including both the Clean Water Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. The latter requires States and water purveyors to develop Source Water Assessment and Protection Programs. The purpose of these programs is to build a prevention barrier to drinking water contamination. The basic protocol involves: inventories of potential hazards; water intake susceptibility evaluations; and, strategies to prevent contamination. All of these efforts must provide opportunities for the public to help guide the decision-making process. The Columbus Water Works (CWW) has taken a regional approach with interstate stakeholders to accomplish compliance with these two laws. The results of these studies will provide guidance to other communities. Findings indicate that watershed monitoring requires sound-science data to properly represent or model the dynamics of the watershed and to implement a protection strategy that provides the desired prevention barrier and is also able to measure watershed restoration. Includes 3 references, figures.