Watersheds
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Community Action
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Data
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Education
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Find your Watershed
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Health
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Information
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Management
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Organizations- Non-Gov't
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Reports
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cfpub.epa.gov |
EPA. Surf Your Watershed Page. Find your watershed and once you have found your watershed, you will be able to find citizen based groups that are active in your watershed. |
cfpub.epa.gov |
EPA. Source Water Protection Info. Citizen Involvement, Source Water Assessments, Protection Planning, Protection Practice Bulletins, Land Use Planning and Stewardship, Funding and Partnerships for Protection. |
www.cwp.org |
Center for Watershed Protection. Research, Community Partnerships, Regulatory Updates & Program Reviews, Watershed Assessment and Planning and Training. |
www.cleanwaternetwork.org |
Clean Water Network (CWN) is a coalition of more than 1,200 public interest organizations across the country, representing more than 5 million people, working together to strengthen and implement federal clean water and wetlands policy. It is the largest national coalition working to defend and strengthen the federal Clean Water Act. |
www.interactivewatersheds.net |
Interactive Watersheds. Using interactive 360 degree panorama Virtual Tours and on-line Community Centers- they provide organizations and individuals a place to share restoration techniques and contributions to ecosystem recovery. Also serves as an open communication process where citizens can become engaged in real time interaction with the restoration work. |
| Data: | |
www.epa.gov |
EPA's Watershed Assessment, Tracking & Environmental Results unites water quality information that was previously available only from several independent and unconnected databases. Includes EnviroMapper for Water, Waters services database, etc. *** |
waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/gw |
U.S. Geological Survey. Ground-Water Data for the Nation. The Ground-Water database consists of more than 850,000 records of wells, springs, test holes, tunnels,drains, and excavations in the United States. |
www.worldwildlife.org |
Freshwater Ecoregions of the World (FEOW) project is a collaborative effort between WWF and The Nature Conservancy, FEOW creates the first-ever comprehensive map and database describing the world’s freshwater biodiversity. Encompassing virtually all of the Earth’s freshwater systems, the map and associated species data are vital tools for conservationists working to save the world’s freshwater ecosystems. |
cfpub.epa.gov |
US EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment. Data, Publications. Numerous reports, papers on water quality. |
www.epa.gov |
EPA's Office of Wastewater Management, in partnership with states, territories and the District of Columbia, conducts the Clean Watersheds Needs Survey (CWNS) every four years. |
| Education: | |
www.riverofwords.org |
River of Words, non-profit organization offers training workshops for teachers, park naturalists, grassroots groups, state resource agencies, librarians and others, helping them to incorporate observation-based watershed nature exploration and the arts into their work with young people. Connects Kids to their Watersheds and Imaginations through Poetry & Art. Competitions. |
www.bay.org |
STRAW Project coordinates and sustains a network of teachers, students, restoration specialists, and other community members as they plan and implement watershed studies and restoration projects in Marin and Sonoma counties. |
| Find your Watershed: | |
www.epa.gov/enviro |
EPA's Envirofacts- find your watershed, and pollution in your area by zip code, maps. |
cfpub.epa.gov |
EPA. Surf Your Watershed Page. Find your watershed and once you have found your watershed, you will be able to find citizen based groups that are active in your watershed. |
| Health: | |
www.epa.gov/bioindicators |
EPA. Biological Indicators of Watershed Health. |
water.usgs.gov/wsc |
U.S. Geological Survey's "Science in Your Watershed" The purpose of this site is to help you find scientific information organized on a watershed basis. The information, coupled with observations and measurements made by the watershed groups, provides a foundation for characterizing, assessing, analyzing, and maintaining the status and health of a watershed. |
toxics.usgs.gov |
U.S. Geological Survey's Toxic Substances Hydrology Program provides objective scientific information on environmental contamination to improve characterization and management of contaminated sites, to protect human and environmental health, and to reduce potential future contamination problems. *** |
water.usgs.gov/nawqa |
National Water-Quality Assessment Program provides an understanding of water-quality conditions and how those conditions may vary locally, regionally, and nationally; whether conditions are getting better or worse over time; and how natural features and human activities affect those conditions. |
www.cwp.org |
Center for Watershed Protection. Research, Community Partnerships, Regulatory Updates & Program Reviews, Watershed Assessment and Planning and Training. |
| Information: | |
cfpub.epa.gov/safewater/sourcewater |
EPA. Source Water Protection Info. Basic Information, Frequent Questions, Source Water Pocket Guide, Private Wells, Tools and Training, EPA Publications, Case Studies, Local Ordinances, Non-EPA Websites and Publications,Source Water Bibliography. |
water.usgs.gov |
U.S. Geological Survey- Water Resources of the United States. Lots of info here. *** |
water.usgs.gov/ogw/gwrp |
U.S. Geological Survey- Ground-Water Resources Program provides the objective scientific information and develops the interdisciplinary understanding necessary to assess and quantify the availability of the Nation's ground-water resources. |
www.wef.org |
Water Environment Federation. Watershed Management Knowledge Center. |
| Management: | |
www.epa.gov/owow/watershed |
Watershed Academy is a focal point in EPA's Office of Water for providing training and information on implementing watershed approaches. Offers a variety of self-paced training modules that represent a basic and broad introduction to the watershed management field. |
www.epa.gov |
Environmental Protection Agency. Wetlands and Watersheds. Wetlands protection programs are most effective when coordinated with other surface and ground-water protection programs and with other resource management programs, such as flood control, water supply, protection of fish and wildlife, recreation, control of stormwater, and nonpoint source pollution. This fact sheet discusses the "why" and "how" of integrating these programs. |
| Organizations-Gov't: | |
www.nrcs.usda.gov |
USDA- Natural Resources Conservation Service- Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act authorized NRCS to cooperate with States and local agencies to carry out works of improvement for soil conservation and for other purposes including flood prevention; conservation, development, utilization and disposal of water; and conservation and proper utilization of land. |
www.nrcs.usda.gov |
USDA- Natural Resources Conservation Service- Emergency Watershed Protection program's purpose is to undertake emergency measures, including the purchase of flood plain easements, for runoff retardation and soil erosion prevention to safeguard lives and property from floods, drought, and the products of erosion on any watershed whenever fire, flood or any other natural occurrence is causing or has caused a sudden impairment of the watershed. |
Organizations- Non-Gov't: See Water-Fresh for many more... |
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www.cleanwaternetwork.org |
Clean Water Network (CWN) is a coalition of more than 1,200 public interest organizations across the country, representing more than 5 million people, working together to strengthen and implement federal clean water and wetlands policy. It is the largest national coalition working to defend and strengthen the federal Clean Water Act. |
www.worldwildlife.org |
World Wildlife Fund’s Conservation Science Program draws on powerful insights from biology, hydrology, oceanography and the social sciences to create new and effective approaches for protecting biodiversity. Numerous programs helping to protect our water. |
www.freshwater.org |
Freshwater Society, a nonprofit organization dedicated to conserving, restoring, and protecting freshwater resources and their surrounding watersheds. |
www.groundwater.org |
Groundwater Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and motivating people to care for and about groundwater. |
www.watersheds.com |
Watershed Initiatives, LLC (for Profit) provides procedural, organization and editorial support for local governments, agencies, non- profit organizations, community-based and stakeholder groups working on complex public policy and natural resource issues. |
adopt-a-watershed.org |
Adopt-A-Watershed is a non-profit organization that promotes educational enhancement, environmental stewardship, and community development through Place-Based Learning. AAW works with schools, youth education programs, community groups, and environmental organizations guiding them through The 5-Steps to Leadership in Place-Based Learning. |
| Reports: | |
cfpub.epa.gov |
EPA's National Center for Environmental Assessment. Watershed Data & Publications. |
www.efc.umd.edu |
Growing Successful Watershed Organizations: Six case studies. This paper contains the stories of six watershed organizations considered successful. Success was gauged by their demonstrated accomplishments and by their growth in members and annual budgets. The stories share approaches used by organizational leaders to grow outstanding watershed organizations." University of Maryland. PDF. |
www.ianrpubs.unl.edu |
"Targeting of Watershed Management Practices for Water Quality Protection" Heartland Regional Water Coordination Initiative. University of Nebraska. PDF. |
www.nanotechproject.org |
"Where Does the Nano Go? End-of-Life Regulation of Nanotechnologies" Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies, July 2007. |
| www.riverkeeper.org | "Fractured Communities -- Case Studies of the Environmental Impacts of Industrial Gas Drilling" RiverKeeper -- Federal and state regulators have documented significant environmental impacts resulting from industrial gas drilling operations nationwide. These impacts include contamination to groundwater, drinking water, surface water, air and soil and result from changes in land use, roadbuilding, water withdrawals, improper cementing and casing of wells, over-pressurized wells, gas migration from new and abandoned wells, the inability of wastewater treatment plants to treat flowback and produced water, underground injection of brine wastewater, improper erosion and sediment controls, truck traffic, compressor stations, as well as accidents and spills. 2010. |
Research: See Water-Fresh page... |
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Wetlands- see Oceans/Waterways page... |
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www.fws.gov/wetlands |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service- National Wetlands Inventory. |
| "True goodness is like water, in that it benefits everything and harms nothing. Like water it ever seeks the lowest place, the place that all others avoid. It is closely kin to the Dao." Goddard translation of Chapter 8 in the Tao te Ching. www.yellowbridge.com |
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