2024-08-12T08:57:00-07:00 2023-09-30 990EZ 2022-10-01 262850223 HEADWATERS INC HEAD 6063352610 PO Box 1422 Whitesburg KY 41858 Amelia Pickering Board Secretary 6063352610 2024-08-12 1 2022 2024-08-08 14:25:15Z X www.kyheadwaters.org X X 66020 X 25100 40920 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 66020 0 0 0 45740 8181 175 2970 57066 8954 62456 0 71410 X 62456 71410 0 0 0 0 62456 71410 0 0 62456 71410 In response to water-quality concerns, community members formed Headwaters in 2005 to promote local water resource management and encourage the stewardship of Letcher County waterways. Headwaters works with a variety of community members, local educators, researchers and academics to lead water sampling efforts and school and community environmental education. The Mountain Drinking Water Project (MDWP) is a university/community collaboration to reduce exposure to disinfection byproducts (DBP) in rural communities as DBP's may have an adverse effect on public health and are among the most frequent water quality violations in the US. Academic leads, Dr. Jason Unrine and Dr. Anna Hoover, with the University of Kentucky (UK), partner with our research coordinator, Deborah Sexton, to recruit local citizen scientists to collect water samples in their homes to help analyze the causes of and solutions for problems related to DBP's. Headwaters currently is in its second year of collection with ten Letcher County citizen scientists who collect samples that are shipped on ice to the UK lab for extraction. Report backs share the results with each individual citizen scientist to reveal the levels of DBP's in their samples, how they vary over time and with temperature changes, as well as how they compare to other sampled homes and EPA suggested limits. In addition to citizen scientists tap water samples, our research coordinator collects additional tap water samples along with surface water samples from the Kentucky River all for DBP analysis. Other community based organizations join Headwaters along with individuals from the health sector, the water utility sector, and local and state governing agencies to form the Stakeholder Consultation Core to facilitate dialogue, provide input, and build trust in partnerships for the MDWP. The area flooding of July 2022 had a major impact on the MDWP as we lost the entire contents of our office including all the materials and supplies for water sampling. During this current period we have re-established our office, acquired new testing equipment, and are back on track with the research with citizen scientists. 40920 42680 Headwaters carries out Environmental Education workshops and other educational endeavors in classrooms, after school programs, and at Lilly Cornett Woods Research Center. The in-school program continued to be limited due to COVID-19 impacts as well as devastating regional flooding in July 2022 that closed many schools and public facilities. Typically 3000 school children and adults benefit. Headwaters board initiated a search for an Executive Director who will work with the board to reimagine and implement new educational programming and watershed quality improvement activities. This position was not filled in this fiscal year 25000 14386 57066 Evan Smith Board Member 1 0 0 0 Jennifer Honeycutt Board Member 1 0 0 0 Amelia Pickering Board Secretary/Treasurer 5 0 0 0 Ron Brunty Board Member 1 0 0 0 Curtis Cox Board Member 1 0 0 0 Jessica Shelton Miles Board Member 0 0 0 0 Courtney Rhoades Mullins Board President 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 KY Amelia Pickering PO Box 1422 Headwaters Inc Whitesburg KY 41858 6063352610 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NONE NONE 1 X 8360 20461 47970 58450 25100 160341 41262 39917 13671 45362 40920 181132 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 49622 60378 61641 103812 66020 341473 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 341473 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 49622 60378 61641 103812 66020 341473 1 1 0 0 X RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED RESTRICTED Form 990-EZ, Part I, Line 16 Travel -- $1000. Supplies -- $928 Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 24 no land or building assets Form 990-EZ, Part II, Line 26 No liabilities