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OREGON ECOLOGICAL REGIONS AND SUBREGIONS FOR WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT
Citation:
Clarke, S., D. White, AND A. Schaedel. OREGON ECOLOGICAL REGIONS AND SUBREGIONS FOR WATER QUALITY MANAGEMENT. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/J-92/169.
Description:
To aid the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) in producing a State Clean Water Strategy and in managing water resources, scientists working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have defined an initial set of regions and subregions of the state with potentially different water quality issues. e delineated and mapped these subregions using existing maps of ecological regions, maps of selected environmental characteristics, remote sensing imagery, and descriptive literature. o help in interpreting the map, we describe the relatives widths of regional boundaries and we rank the components used in determining them. he DEQ intends to apply these subregions as an organizational framework for data display and reporting, prioritizing monitoring and pollution control strategies, developing biological criteria for water quality standards, and developing other regional water quality management approaches.