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Thus far we have briefly discussed several methods of weed or algae removal which is essentially dealing with the symptoms of a water body in trouble.
The subject of Watershed Management deals with the prevention of, or retardation of, these symptons, known as eutrophication. First, it involves the creation and execution of a plan to monitor by quantitative and qualitative measurements of the chemical health of a body of water: its nutrient and pollutant inflow, and its nutrient and pollutant outflow. These measurements are the core of any Watershed Management Plan.
To determine the trend of adverse (or positive) water chemistry in a body of water is to determine its fundamental health - and future - of that body.
We have three Websites for you to visit:
- http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/news/sep97/watersheds.html
- is an excellent overview of the importance of understanding “from
50,000 feet” what Watershed Management is.
Visit this website because it gives you an understandable, non technical, but very rational explanation of Watershed Management and what it means in layman’s language by Donald Anderson, Director of Natural Resources for the State of Ohio
- Following this visit you should take a step up in your preparation
for a Watershed Management plan and understand all of the issues involved.
This presentation is very comprehensive and all of the issues mentioned
therein may not apply but, comprehensive it is, and you will be prompted
to leave out nothing that is pertinent. It is a very rigorous outline
but not necessarily everything you need to follow
http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/KYW/Brochures/PutTogether.html
- And finally we take you to a website that offers the outline of a
working Watershed Management plan. This plan covers the clean-up of
Fanno-Tryon Creek in Portland, Oregon. Notice that it presents an action
plan to achieve a set of agreed upon goals. In all probability, the
impractical and the theoretical have been expunged to leave a reasonably
practical and achievable objective
http://www.cleanrivers-pdx.org/clean_rivers/fanno_watershed_plan.htm
Within our own area of New England we have Lake Singletary in Sutton, Mass. who have created, over time, a working lake Watershed Management Plan. It has been in effect for several years and enjoys the support and co-operation of the Conservation Commissions, Boards of Selectmen, and Lake Associations of two contiguous towns.
