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Healthy Watersheds Integrated Assessments Workshop Proceedings
Citation:
U.S. EPA. Healthy Watersheds Integrated Assessments Workshop Proceedings. Healthy Watershed Integrated Assessments Workshop, Estes Park, CO, November 02 - 04, 2010. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-11/045, 2011.
Impact/Purpose:
The Healthy Watershed Integrated Assessment Workshop was a coordinated effort between ORD and OW, with input from across ORD, OWOW, EPA Regions and States. The goal of the workshop was to assess and advance the state of the science of healthy watershed integrated assessments in support of EPA’s Healthy Watersheds Initiative. Healthy watershed integrated assessments will strengthen the application of the anti-degradation clauses of the Clean Water Act. The workshop included presentations and discussions of the Healthy Watersheds Initiative, current state healthy watershed assessment approaches, watershed resilience, a conceptual model for healthy watersheds, implementation issues, and applications of healthy watershed assessments at the local to national scales. Workshop outputs are being used to inform the Healthy Watersheds Initiative and will be posted on the OWOW Healthy Watershed Initiative website.
Description:
The Healthy Watershed Integrated Assessment Workshop was held in Estes Park, Colorado in November 2010. Attendees were selected to represent interests and expertise of EPA’s Office of Water, EPA’s Office of Research and Development, EPA Regions, States, other Federal, State, and local agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The goal of the workshop was to assess and advance the state of the science of healthy watershed integrated assessments in support of EPA’s Healthy Watersheds Initiative http://water.epa.gov/polwaste/nps/watershed/index.cfm). EPA’s Healthy Watershed Initiative strengthens the application of the anti-degradation clauses of the Clean Water Act. The workshop included presentations and discussions of the Healthy Watersheds Initiative, current state healthy watershed assessment approaches, watershed resilience, a conceptual model for healthy watersheds, implementation issues, and applications of healthy watershed assessments at the local to national scales.
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HWIA2011PROC.PDF (PDF, NA pp, 1048 KB, about PDF)HWIA2011ATT1.PDF (PDF, NA pp, 30581 KB, about PDF)
HWIA2011ATT2.PDF (PDF, NA pp, 21620 KB, about PDF)