2019 Septicsmart Week Highlights (PDF)

2019 SepticSmart Week A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Program

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Proclamations This year, governors, health departments, State and Local Engagement and partner organizations of the EPA Decentralized MOU Partnership issued Virginia Department of Health proclamations to promote SepticSmart presented “Be SepticSmart: How Week. Four states issued their first state to Care for Onsite Sewage Systems proclamation this year! to Protects Virginia’s Waters” at • Ground Water Protection Council the Science Museum of Virginia. (top left) • La Porte County Health Department (Indiana) Michigan Department of • Thurston County Board of Health Environment, Great Lakes, and (Washington) Energy (EGLE) hosted a booth at this year’s Medication Disposal • State of Idaho, Governor Brad Little Event. (middle left) • State of Indiana, Governor Eric J. Suffolk County, New York, Holcomb hosted a “Turning the Tide” Water • State of Michigan, Governor Quality Summit at Stony Brook Gretchen Whitmer University with guest speaker Basil • State of New Hampshire, Governor Seggos, commissioner of New Christopher T. Sununu York Department of Environmental Conservation. (bottom left) • State of New Mexico, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham Skagit County and Whatcom • State of North Carolina, Governor County, Washington, held a Roy Cooper Septic Systems 201 training course to community members and • State of North Dakota, Governor showed a free screening of the Doug Burgum documentary, “Mr. Toilet,” a look at • State of Oregon, Governor Kate global sanitation and public health. Brown Fairfax County, Virginia, • State of Rhode Island, Governor Gina released a podcast episode M. Raimondo on environmental health and • Commonwealth of Virginia, SepticSmart Week with Kevin Governor Ralph S. Northam Crisler, Supervisor of the Environmental Health Division • State of Washington, Governor Jay of the Fairfax County Health Inslee Department. Superlative Septic Users Social Media Partners and affiliates used #SepticSmart and #SepticSmartWeek to facilitate MORE THAN 650 conversation and engage their networks. Twitter statistics below show the most SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS popular Tweets in terms of likes and retweets, users with the most tweets, and the MADE OVER users who reached the greatest number of people. 2 million Most Popular Most Tweets Most Reach IMPRESSIONS.

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G G N N A A M M E N E N N IO N IO T T T T A C A C L PROTE 54 11 L PROTE 103,912 mentions + retweets tweets reach 70 PERCENT Missouri DNR Missouri DNR Michigan.gov OF TWITTER POSTS CONTAINED 20 9 43,248 LINKS TO SEPTIC MATERIALS. mentions + retweets tweets reach

RCAP SN Co. Health Dept. Pierce County, Wash 90 PERCENT 18 8 42,340 OF TWITTER POSTS CONTAINED mentions + retweets tweets reach PHOTOS SUCH AS THE QUICK TIPS.

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MOU Partner Newsletter Outreach • GWPC Communique newsletter reached more than 2,100 individuals. • WRF newsletter reached nearly 20,000 individuals. • CDC e-newsletter reached 50,000 subscribers and Environmental Health newsletter reached more than 800 individuals. • WEF WEFCOM newsletter sent to Small Community Committee members. #SepticSmart • NAWT newsletter sent to 2,551 members. Word Cloud • RCAP email alert sent to 149 individuals. This word cloud shows the most popular • IAPMO sent four SepticSmart emails to 6,215 individuals. words used with #SepticSmart tweets.