The role of the Steering Committee, made up of representatives from local and state government and advocacy groups, was to help make sure the project team reached as many people as possible throughout the area, and selected Nature Based Solutions that will have the greatest positive impacts on the communities – but particularly members of the community most at risk to flooding, heat, and other concerns.

The SNEP Network hopes that the members of the Steering Committee have developed relationships that will last, so that all five communities in the Canoe River Aquifer can collaborate to implement priority projects.