A part of good planning practice is monitoring progress. Tracking objectives is a way for your community to know whether it is successfully implementing the comprehensive plan that your community spent hundreds of hours and financial resources to develop. Typically the plan commission and other interested community members track progress over time. The idea is to accomplish the objectives the community set for itself.

Setting up a simple chart that includes goals, objectives, and policies is one easy way to track progress. Including a time line for action is also important as shown here.

We hope that this summary of groundwater data and potential groundwater goals, objectives and policies is helpful. The most important steps are to begin the conversation about groundwater in your community and to get started on a few actions to take care of it for future generations.

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