Locally-led Education and Action
for Protecting the Environment

A Program of Cornell Cooperative Extension and Sea Grant

Locally-led Education and Action for Protecting the Environment (LEAPE) is an educational program for local governments interested in protecting water resources in their communities. LEAPE offers basic education about pollution of surface and groundwater, the relationship of water resources protection to traditional local government responsibilities, actions local government can take to protect and improve water quality, and sources of technical and financial resources.

Keywords: nonpoint source pollution; local government; water resources; protecting / protection; control / management / managing; education

This page last modified April 11, 2003