News of the Arroyo
Title: | USEPA Releases Watershed Planning Handbook |
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Date: | 2006-01-02 |
Summary: | January 2, 2006 - The US Environmental Protection Agencyhas released a valuable handbook on watershed planning. The handbook emphasizes cleaning up watersheds and rivers, but it will be useful to a wide variety of planners and activists. |
Author: | News Release |
Publication: | USEPA |
Content: | The U.S. EPA Nonpoint Source Control Program has just published the Watershed Planning Handbook (more completely titled \"Handbook for Developing Watershed Plans to Restore and Protect our Waters\") on the EPA web site, at http://www.epa.gov/owow/nps/watershed_handbook/. The document can be downloaded and there are directions for ordering free printed versions. The Handbook (400-plus pages) provides detailed information that is intended to assist all manner of watershed planners, and others whose work intersects with watershed planning issues, on virtually all aspects of the watershed planning process. The emphasis is on the nonpoint source water quality aspects of watersheds, but much of the information is more broadly applicable. The focus is on technical issues, but there is also a generously sized chapter on how to \"Build Partnerships\". Overall, it is designed to take the user through each step of the watershed planning process, including watershed monitoring and assessment, community outreach, selection and application of available models, BMP effectiveness data bases, implementation, feedback and plan adjustment, and more. The Table of Contents on the Home Page gives a good idea of the flow of the document. |
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