Community-Based Watershed Management and Wetland Mitigation
Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition
alaskawatershedcoalition.org
Community Training
October 17, 2011
Donal Daly, EPA Catchment Science and Management Unit outlines a possible approach to integrating Water Framework Directive and Biodiversity goals at the catchment scale.
(IWRM). The presentation has the following flow:
1. The relevance of IWRM for a number of key development issues
2. The key characteristics of the concept
3. The global status of IWRM
4. Practical implementation – the challenges
5. Practical implementation – case studies showing successful
applications to problematic management scenarios
6. How IWRM programmes are being linked with the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) and adaptation to climate change by the setting of achievement milestones
Presentation by Beria Leimona, Rachman Pasha, Tony Setiawan, Suyanto, and Bruno Verbist. This is a case study of a RUPES Project at Sumberjaya Watershed, Lampung Province, Indonesia.
Donal Daly, EPA Catchment Science and Management Unit outlines a possible approach to integrating Water Framework Directive and Biodiversity goals at the catchment scale.
(IWRM). The presentation has the following flow:
1. The relevance of IWRM for a number of key development issues
2. The key characteristics of the concept
3. The global status of IWRM
4. Practical implementation – the challenges
5. Practical implementation – case studies showing successful
applications to problematic management scenarios
6. How IWRM programmes are being linked with the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs) and adaptation to climate change by the setting of achievement milestones
Presentation by Beria Leimona, Rachman Pasha, Tony Setiawan, Suyanto, and Bruno Verbist. This is a case study of a RUPES Project at Sumberjaya Watershed, Lampung Province, Indonesia.
Presentation by Alaine Clarke MIPI Physical Planner
Objectives:
Appreciate existing linkages between catchment management and the planning system
Recognise that the planning system is a key tool to implementation of River Basin Management Plans
Understand what is needed to deliver a water-friendly planning system
Structure of presentation:
Policy Context
Legislative context as it relates to planning & RBMPs
What guidance is out there?
Existing RBMPs + interaction with planning system
Developing appropriate & measurable policies
Next cycle of RBMPs
Please Read and then contact me mapesanestory@yahoo.com/ kabaganga@gmail.com/ mapesanestory@outlook.com or +255752997756/+255684248202 For more readings
2012 status report on the application of integrated approaches to water resou...Christina Parmionova
UNEP-DHI Centre -
http://www.unepdhi.org/Publications.aspx
2012 Status Report on the Application of Integrated Approaches to Water Resources Management in Africa [English]
Irrigation futures - Regional Partnerships address water security in wester...Christina Parmionova
Regional partnerships address water security in Western Sydney
This article by Basant Maheshwari and Bruce Simmons featured in the Irrigation Australia Journal, Spring 2009, Volume 24, No. 3.
The Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures System Harmonisation program has developed a project titled Water and Irrigation Strategy Enhancement through Regional Partnerships (WISER) to establish a system harmonisation process in Western Sydney, NSW. The project is about working with regional irrigation partners to increase profitability and reduce the environmental footprint of irrigation systems. Here we provide an overview of the System Harmonisation Program and a case study of the WISER project in Western Sydney.
Irrigation futures - Role of community participation and partnershipsChristina Parmionova
Role of community participation and partnerships: the Virginia pipeline scheme
This article was written by Ganesh Keremane and Jennifer McKay. It was published in the AWA Water Journal in November 2006.
www.awa.asn.au
Water sharing plans: not just about economics
This article was written by by G. Kuehne, CRC for Irrigation Futures, University of SA and H. Bjornlund, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. It was published in Irrigation Australia Journal in May 2007.
www.irrigation.org.au
Presentation by Alaine Clarke MIPI Physical Planner
Objectives:
Appreciate existing linkages between catchment management and the planning system
Recognise that the planning system is a key tool to implementation of River Basin Management Plans
Understand what is needed to deliver a water-friendly planning system
Structure of presentation:
Policy Context
Legislative context as it relates to planning & RBMPs
What guidance is out there?
Existing RBMPs + interaction with planning system
Developing appropriate & measurable policies
Next cycle of RBMPs
Please Read and then contact me mapesanestory@yahoo.com/ kabaganga@gmail.com/ mapesanestory@outlook.com or +255752997756/+255684248202 For more readings
2012 status report on the application of integrated approaches to water resou...Christina Parmionova
UNEP-DHI Centre -
http://www.unepdhi.org/Publications.aspx
2012 Status Report on the Application of Integrated Approaches to Water Resources Management in Africa [English]
Irrigation futures - Regional Partnerships address water security in wester...Christina Parmionova
Regional partnerships address water security in Western Sydney
This article by Basant Maheshwari and Bruce Simmons featured in the Irrigation Australia Journal, Spring 2009, Volume 24, No. 3.
The Cooperative Research Centre for Irrigation Futures System Harmonisation program has developed a project titled Water and Irrigation Strategy Enhancement through Regional Partnerships (WISER) to establish a system harmonisation process in Western Sydney, NSW. The project is about working with regional irrigation partners to increase profitability and reduce the environmental footprint of irrigation systems. Here we provide an overview of the System Harmonisation Program and a case study of the WISER project in Western Sydney.
Irrigation futures - Role of community participation and partnershipsChristina Parmionova
Role of community participation and partnerships: the Virginia pipeline scheme
This article was written by Ganesh Keremane and Jennifer McKay. It was published in the AWA Water Journal in November 2006.
www.awa.asn.au
Water sharing plans: not just about economics
This article was written by by G. Kuehne, CRC for Irrigation Futures, University of SA and H. Bjornlund, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. It was published in Irrigation Australia Journal in May 2007.
www.irrigation.org.au
Aligning Watershed and Habitat Protection for Conservation Success in the Rac...rshimoda2014
Lindsay Gardner - Southeast Aquatics Resources Partnershp
Nothing is more important than water for human health and the health of our fish and wildlife resources. Clean water and abundant habitat are critical to functional aquatic ecosystems with healthy populations of fish and wildlife. Successful aquatic resource conservation at the watershed level requires a multipronged approach working with local communities to restore ecologically impacted or impaired streams and put land use/habitat protections in place. The collaborative efforts of the Southeast Watershed Forum (SEWF), Southeast Aquatic Resources Partnership (SARP), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS), Georgia Wildlife Resources Division (GWRD), and other key partners in the Raccoon Creek area of the Etowah River Watershed, Georgia, an EPA priority watershed, provide a positive example of this holistic approach to watershed management. Building on the conservation planning, land protection and restoration efforts by TNC on Raccoon Creek, this partnership is successfully working with Paulding County stakeholders to identify conservation priorities and align watershed and conservation planning with county land use planning to ensure long-term benefits for prime habitat and water quality. This work encourages conservation-oriented growth practices and habitat protections to benefit fish and wildlife, like the Cherokee darter, and supports the regional habitat objectives of the SARP-directed Southeast Aquatic Habitat Plan, addressing threats to aquatic resources and key habitat protections. An outstanding example of how on-the-ground restoration of aquatic resources at the local level, the project also addresses national conservation priorities and demonstrates how through community-supported land use quality growth planning it is possible to develop a strategy and stewardship ethic to maintain these resources for generations to come. Contributors: Christine Olsenius, Jane Fowler (SEWF); Scott Robinson, Lindsay Gardner (SARP); Kathleen Owens (TNC).
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The Ocean Watch open data platform delivers science to policy makers developing sustainable ocean economies and operationalizing integrated ocean management.
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The Clean Water America Alliance has released Water Sustainability Principles for a National Policy Framework available at www.CWAA.US. The principles were developed through several 2010 national dialogues and refined further by a recent meeting of 50 water leaders representing water associations from drinking water, wastewater, stormwater, energy, research, and other interests. “Shrinking budgets and increasing demands are putting pressures on the water sector overall to embrace innovation, integration and collaboration like never before. Engaging Water Association leaders to discuss and revise the draft framework was a step toward unifying the voice for water,” explains Alliance President Ben Grumbles. “We will continue to take comments on the water sustainability principles and broaden the scope of its collaboration to all interested sectors and citizens from coast to coast.” The Clean Water America Alliance’s goal is to collaborate on a flexible framework that highlights the value of water and the need for specific and sustainable actions.
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This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
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Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
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Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
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The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
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https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
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2. Objectives
— Introduce the Southeast Alaska Watershed
Coalition and what we do
— Compensatory Mitigation for Losses of Aquatic
Resources- 2008 Final Rule
— Our work to support Wetland Management on the
local level
— Watershed Assessments and Planning for
Mitigation
3. Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition
(SAWC)
• Focuses on the watershed
We advocate on the
local, state and
• Uses science, local
federal level for knowledge and research
Community-based to inform decision-making
Watershed
• Emphasizes collaborative
Management problem solving, and
(CBWM)
• Local citizens, institutions
and organizations are the
primary stakeholders
4. Why Community-Based Watershed
Management?
— The health of our
communities and economies
depend on the health of our
watersheds.
— The concerns of the
community and the benefits
derived from the
opportunities within our
watersheds should be central
to natural resources and land
management planning and
decision making.
5. How SAWC Supports CBWM in SEAK
— Sharing knowledge
and resources
— Building economies of
scale
— Building a regional
voice for Community
Based Watershed
Management
6. Why is wetland mitigation management on
the local, state and federal level
important to us?
— Watershed practitioners on the local level are
mitigators.
— The majority of the projects these groups
develop and carry-out support the development
of community-based mitigation priorities and/or
are forms of mitigation
7. Mitigation is Defined as:
— The act of
restoring,
enhancing,
creating,
stewarding/
preserving
prioritized and/or
critical habitat in
a watershed.
8. Compensatory Mitigation-2008
Federal Rule
— Mitigation projects were not
achieving functional lift of habitat
and the nation was failing to reach
its goal of “no net loss”
— State to state and within states there
were vast discrepancies in how
wetland mitigation was being carried
out
9. What is the Intention of the New Rule?
— Provided a standard “outlined” process for
federal, state and local agencies to utilize in
developing management strategies for wetland
mitigation
— Use of best available science
— Predictability and efficient
— Improves the planning, implementation and
management of compensatory mitigation
projects
— Clarifies the Watershed Approach
10. SAWC’S Role in Locally Based Wetland
Planning and Management
Coordinating trainings on
wetland mitigation
processes for community
professionals:
— Wetland delineations
— Watershed Planning
— Developing a third-party
mitigation program
— Mitigation Banks
— In-lieu Fee Programs
— Ad hoc
11. SAWC’S Role in Locally Based Wetland
Planning and Management
— Working with communities to identify mitigation
opportunities
— Mitigation Programs
— Mitigation Projects
— Working with state and federal agencies to shape
policy strategies that respond to the unique
characteristics of SE communities
12. Who/What Benefits from Wetland Mitigation
Management and Programs
Community Economy
— Jobs
— Developers
— Less money, resources, time wasted
— Landowners during permitting and constructing
— Improve recreational/tourist sites
— Local citizens
— Mitigate important habitat for
— Local governments commercial species
— Flood prevention
— Tribes
— Water quality
— Subsistence users — Subsistence
13. Who/What benefits from wetland mitigation
management and programs
Watersheds
— Sustainable development:
strategically planned
development
— Conservation and
restoration
— Water quality
— Water quantity
— Subsistence resources
15. Juneau Watershed Partnership
— Formed in 1998, local
citizen and agency
stakeholder group
— Non-profit organization
that works to promote
sustainable use and
community stewardship of
Juneau’s watersheds
— Raised over $1 million in
grant and individual
donations since 1998
16. Objectives
— Community Based Wetland Mitigation and
Watershed Planning in Juneau
— Benefits of Community Based Watershed Planning
— Case Study: Auke Lake Watershed Assessment
— Identifying and Prioritizing Restoration and
Enhancement Activities for Mitigation
17. Juneau’s Community Based Wetland
Mitigation and Watershed Management
— Watershed Assessments and Management Plans
— Community Events and Community Meetings
— Support Local Restoration, Enhancement and
Mitigation Trainings
— Evaluating Past Restoration, Enhancement and
Mitigation Projects (REM Report)
— Prioritizing and Digitizing Restoration, Enhancement
and Mitigation Opportunities. (REM Part 2)
— Partnering with SAWC on regional efforts
18. Benefits of Watershed Assessments
— Engaging Community/ Stakeholders Proactively
— Participation and Collaboration
— Ecological/ Landscape Approach
— Baseline “Snapshot of Time” = Documenting
Existing Conditions
— Framework for grant opportunities, planning
priorities, mitigation
19. Case Study- Auke Lake
— Identified Problem
— Recommendations for
Sustainable Use and
Development, Restoration
and Enhancement
— Agency, Landowners and
Community Collaboration
— Compile Existing Data to
Inform Development
20. First Steps
— Identified Goals and — Assembled an Advisory
Objectives Group
— Key Stakeholders — Hosted meeting, - GIS
maps, Outline, Past
— Project Scope Research
— Baseline Maps
21. Project Partners
— Municipalities — Non-Profits
— US Forest Service — University of
Alaska
— AK Fish and Game
— Wetland Review
— AK DEC Board
— NRCS — User Groups
— Tribal Governments — Neighbors
22. Components of a Watershed Assessment
Watershed Delineation Hydrology/ Hydrological
and Description Function
— Land Ownership — Contributing Water
Sources
— Land Use Planning
— Rivers, Stream, Tribs,
Lakes, Wetlands
23. Components of a Watershed Assessment
(Cont.)
Water Quality Landforms/ Geology
Habitat Conditions
— Water Use
Designations — Channel Alterations
— Water Rights — Bank/Riparian
Disturbances
— Known Pollutants-
Point Source — Fish Passage
— Other Pollutants-
Non-Point Source
24. Components of a Watershed Assessment
(Cont.)
Fish and Fish Habitat Geology, Plants,
Wildlife
— Species Present
— Invasive Plants
— Seasonal Distribution
— Wildlife Corridors and
— Studies, Counts, Habitat
Hatchery Stocking
25. Components of a Watershed Assessment
(Cont.)
Cultural, Historical and Management, Recovery,
Current Human Use Stewardship
— Land Use/ — Goals and Action
Development Items
— Recreational/ — Restoration,
Commercial Use Enhancement
26. Community Involvement
Neighborhood Survey
— Activities (Use), Values, Concerns, Suggestions
for Change
Community Meeting
— Feedback on draft plan and maps
— Concerns, Uses (Past and Present), Values
27. Project Outcomes
— Distributed to municipality, local agencies,
community groups
— Posted online on our Electronic Watershed
Resource Library
— Auke Lake Action Plan
— Mitigation Planning
28. Other Forms of Watershed Plans
— Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs)
— Watershed Assessments
— Watershed Management Plans
— Watershed Conservation Plans
— Watershed Action Plans
— Wetland Function and Values Analysis
— Comprehensive Plans
29. Documenting and Prioritizing Potential
Restoration and Enhancement Projects
— Geographic Footprint
— Identifying Problems by
Watershed
— Landownership
— Land Use Designations
— Impacted/ Impaired Function
— Expected Outcomes
— Recommended Action
30. Documenting and Prioritizing Potential
Restoration and Enhancement Projects
— Agency, Landowner,
Stakeholder, Tribal Entity,
and Native Corporation
Collaboration Opportunities
— Constraints/ Complications
— Budgets
— Permits
— Potential Partners
31. Questions or
Comments?
alaskawatershedcoalition.org Thank you!