The STEAC is not an acronym to remember.

Mascots Franko and Lindy might be a more memorable way to get the public to act on behalf of the Clean Water Act.

Falcon mascots named Franko and Lindy to represent the mission of the Salisbury Township Environmental Advisory Council, which is to help implement the Clean Water Act on the local level, were just two of the suggestions presented by Robert Agonis at the STEAC May meeting.

Agonis, a STEAC task force member, presented a 10-page document with an additional eight pages of sources of information referred to in his report.

"It will help give us the whys and wherefores of what we're doing and how to manage it," Agonis said of his report at the May 20 STEAC meeting.

"I wrote this document for three audiences: the STEAC, public and government officials," Agonis said.

Population segments and key stakeholder groups include, according to Agonis, residential neighborhoods, municipal employees, schools, volunteer fire departments, health-care organizations, businesses and developers.

He said his document is "creating the message for Salisbury Township."

This could include mascots modeled after the Falcon mascot for Salisbury Township School District sports teams. Agonis suggested the nicknames Franko (after Franko Farm Park) and Lindy (after Lindberg Park). The mascots could help educate the public about adhering to the Clean Water Act in the township.

The STEAC is tasked by the township board of commissioners to implement the first two of six Minimum Control Measures to enforce the MS4 program mandated by United States Environmental Protection Agency and enforced by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection.

Under the DEP's Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System Stormwater Management Program Protocol, municipalities are required to fulfill six MCMs: 1. public education, 2. public participation, 3. illicit discharge detection and elimination, 4. construction site runoff control, 5. post-construction stormwater management, and 6. pollution prevention for municipal operations and maintenance.

STEAC is tasked to fulfill MCMs numbers one and two.

Keystone Consulting Engineers, Inc., the township engineering consultant firm, is tasked to take care of MCMs numbers three through six.

Agonis provided information about Best Management Practices for MCM numbers one public education and two public participation.

"What comes under BMPs are things that we're going to measure," Agonis said.

Agonis's report outlines examples of how other municipalities are handling the MCMs, including Spring Garden Township, York County, and Penn Township, Lancaster County. Agonis said he spoke with a Penn Township official about MCMs.

Agonis emphasized the STEAC "must come up with measurable goals" for MCMs numbers one and two.

Agonis said complying with the Clean Water Act is important in Salisbury.

"In our township, primary waterways are the Lehigh River, Little Lehigh and Trout Creek," Agonis said.

"I can't tell you how thrilled I am with your work," STEAC chair Kreg Ulery told Adonis after his presentation.

"This is a real start," STEAC vice chair Glenn Miller said.

"That was fabulous, Bob. It's a master's degree dissertation," STEAC member Jane Benning said of Adonis's report.

In an April 14 letter to Salisbury Township Director of Public Works John Andreas, and announced at the April 23 Salisbury Township Board of Commissioners' meeting by Salisbury Township Manager Randy Soriano, the EPA said the township has met conditions of the Administrative Order and Section 308 Requirement for Information of the Clean Water Act issued May 29, 2014.

Salisbury, along with other Lehigh Valley municipalities, received the notice to provide EPA with evidence of MS4 compliance.

A Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System is composed of drainage systems, including streets, catch basins, curbs, gutters, ditches, man-made channels and storm pipes owned by a municipality.

As part of the federal Clean Water Act, a municipality is required to have an MS4 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit to cover stormwater discharges and to maintain compliance with the permit.