Robert McCormick is the Planning with POWER Project Leader and is responsible for forming all partnerships and collaborations to enable the program to run statewide. Planning With POWER (Protecting Our Water and Environmental Resources) is a statewide educational program linking local land use planning and watershed/natural resource planning and is coordinated by the Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program and the Purdue University Cooperative Extension Service. Leslie Dorworth provides water quality and scientific extension expertise to the project.
Robert works to form links between professionals and agencies involved in watershed planning at the local level and those involved with land use planning so that both issues are considered as local policy decisions are made. He is responsible for delivery of educational programs at the local level to planning and zoning officials and to local citizen groups. Programs are designed to identify non-point source problems that can result from current and planned land use practices in their growing communities and encourage participants to take action to prevent further impacts to their watershed.
All communities desiring to take action in their watershed receive guidance from the Planning with POWER Project leader and are directed to the technical expertise provided by university specialists and Conservation Partnership personnel as appropriate.
Planning with POWER is part of the NEMO (Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials) Network. NEMO originated at the University of Connecticut in 1991 as a pilot program focusing on three coastal communities. From that starting point, NEMO evolved into a network of 15 state programs by 2000. There are now 36 states with ongoing or developing NEMO programs.
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