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October 17, 2008
October 8, 2008
- Watershed News - October 2008
1) FY2009 Community-based Marine Debris Prevention and Removal Project Grants
2) FY2009 Open Rivers Initiative
3) NOAA General Coral Reef Conservation Grants Program
4) FY09 Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund and Cleanup Grants
5) Final Determination - Yazoo Backwater Area Pumps Project
6) EPA Releases Multi-Sector General Permit for Industrial Stormwater Discharges
7) Center for Watershed Protection releases its Municipal Pollution Prevention/Good Housekeeping Manual
8) Federal Agencies Map Plans to Address Marine Debris
9) River Network's River Rally - Call for Workshop Proposals
10) Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup on September 20th a Success
11) EPA's Watershed Academy to sponsor free December 3rd Webcast on Implementing a Rain Garden Program to Improve Stormwater Management
12) Green Infrastructure Models and Calculators
13) Lake Icaria, Iowa - Restoration Efforts Repair a Drinking Water Source and Recreational Area
14) Southeast Stormwater Institute
15) WEFTEC.08 Conference
16) EPA's "Getting in Step with Phase II: A Workshop for Stormwater Program Managers"
17) Legal Tools for Pennsylvania Advocates to Clean up the Chesapeake Bay
September 4, 2008
- Watershed News - September 2008
1) Water Quality Trading Funding: Proposals due September 9, 2008
2) California and Chesapeake Bay Watershed Education and Training (B-WET) Program Funding Available
3) Climate Ready Estuaries Coastal Toolkit
4) Gilbert Stuart Stream, Rhode Island: Outhouse Removal Eliminates Source of Bacteria
5) New "One-Stop Shopping" Web Site for Tribes in Search of Clean Water Act Training
6) EPA Launches new Climate Ready Estuaries website
7) Center for Watershed Protection Releases Stormwater Monitoring Guidance
8) New Find Your Watershed" Widget Connects to EPA's Surf Your Watershed
9) 3rd National Conference on Ecosystem Restoration--Call for Special Sessions
10) World Water Monitoring Day Starts September 18th
11) Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup - September 20, 2008
12) Wetlands 2008: Wetlands and Global Climate Change
13) Getting in Step with Phase II: A Workshop for Stormwater Program Managers and Regulators
14) 2008 Chesapeake Watershed Forum
15) FLOW 2008: Interdisciplinary Solutions to Instream Flow Problems
16) Southeast Stormwater Institute
17) WEFTEC.08 Conference
18) 2008 AWRA Annual Water Resources Conference
19) 2009 AWRA Spring Specialty Conference
August 14, 2008
- New online Watershed Academy Web "Stepping Stone" training module on Key Concepts of Water Quality Standards posted on EPA's Watershed Academy Web.
July 29, 2008
July 8, 2008
- Watershed News - July 2008
1) Water Quality Trading Funding: Proposals due September 9, 2008
2) $5 Million Available for West Coast Estuaries Initiative for the California Coast
3) $5 Million Available for San Francisco Bay Area Water Quality Improvement Fund
4) EPA's Watershed Academy to sponsor free July 16th Webcast on the Clean Water Act State Revolving Fund: What's in it for Watersheds?
5) EPA's Watershed Academy to sponsor free July 23rd Webcast on Green Streets: Stormwater Runoff through Low Impact Development
6) Action Plan to Reduce Nutrients to Mississippi River from 31 States Released
7) New "Impaired Waters and Total Maximum Daily Loads" Web Site
8) Final Rule on Water Transfers
9) Estuaries Preparing to be Climate Ready
10) Announcing the 15th Annual Secchi Dip-In - June 28th - July 20th
11) EPA Issues Training Materials on Financing for Watersheds
12) Draft WaterSense New Homes Specification Released
13) "Conserving America's Wetlands" 2008 Report Available
14) Proposed Vessel Discharge Permits
15) Water Quality Standards Academy: Basic Course in DC area
16) Southeast Watershed Forum /Regional Dialogue
17) Wetlands 2008: Wetlands and Global Climate Change
18) FLOW 2008: Interdisciplinary Solutions to Instream Flow Problems
19) SAVE THE DATE: Southeast Stormwater Institute
20) WEFTEC.08 Conference
June 6, 2008
June 3, 2008
- Watershed News - June 2008
1) National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program
2) CARE Program (Community Action for a Renewed Environment) RFP expected in late 2008 or early 2009
3) EPA's Watershed Academy to Sponsor June 18th Webcast on EPA's New Database for Water Quality Assessment and TMDL information (ATTAINS)
4) OWOW Posts First Podcast about Green Streets-- From Gray Funnels to Green Sponges Podcast
5) US FWS National Wetlands Maps Available on Google Earth
6) 2008 Farm Bill
7) Public Comment Period Open for EPA Proposed Construction General Permit
8) EPA's Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds 2007 Annual Report Released
9) Whole Effluent Toxicity Testing Video Series
10) FY 2009 EPA's National Water Program Guidance Released
11) Water Quality Standards Academy: New On-line Training Course
12) The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) releases Synthesis and Assessment
13) U.S. Botanic Garden's Summer Exhibit, One Planet - Ours!, Focuses on Sustainability for the 22nd Century
14) University of New Hampshire Stormwater Center 2007 Annual Report available online
15) Connecticut LID Regulations Website
16) New Sustainable Stormwater Best Management Practices Website
17) Water Quality Standards Academy: Basic Course in DC area
18) Wetlands 2008: Wetlands and Global Climate Change
19) FLOW 2008: Interdisciplinary Solutions to Instream Flow Problems
20) SAVE THE DATE: Southeast Stormwater Institute
21) WEFTEC.08 Conference
May 6, 2008
May 2, 2008
- Watershed News - May 2008
1) EPA Seeks Nominations for Clean Water Innovation Awards
2) National Coastal Wetlands Conservation Grant Program
3) Watershed Tool of the Month: New On-Line Watershed Academy Training Module on Developing a Sustainable Finance Plan
4) Spotlight: Watersheds at Work: Raritan River Basin (New Jersey)
5) Free May 8 Webcast on EPA's Draft Water Climate Change Strategy
6) EPA’s Watershed Academy to sponsor free May 13th Webcast on Wetlands and Climate Change
7) EPA's Watershed Planning Handbook Released
8) Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan 2008 Approved
9) May is American Wetlands Month
10) Giving Small Water Systems a Free Check Up
11) River Network's River Rally 2008River Network's River Rally 2008
12) Sustainable Infrastructure Forum for Water and Wastewater
13) Monitoring: Key to Understanding Our Waters
14) Water Quality Standards Academy: Basic Course in DC area
15) Enhancing the States' Lake Management Programs
16) Wetlands 2008: Wetlands and Global Climate Change
17) FLOW 2008: Interdisciplinary Solutions to Instream Flow Problems
18) SAVE THE DATE: Southeast Stormwater Institute
19) WEFTEC.08 Conference
April 29, 2008
April 23, 2008
April 1, 2008
- Watershed News - April 2008
1) YSI Foundation Minding the Planet 60th Anniversary Grant
2) EPA Regions Solicit Wetland Program Development Grant Proposals
3) Gulf Program Seeks Entries for 2008 Gulf Guardian Awards
4) Schafer Announces Conservation Security Program Sign-up
5) Grants Available from the Hydrologic Sciences Program
6) Army Corps and EPA Improve Wetland and Stream Mitigation
7) Watershed Tool of the Month: Fifteen Things You Can Do to Make A Difference in Your Watershed
8) Spotlight: Watersheds at Work, Illinois: Governor Bond Lake
9) EPA's Watershed Academy to sponsor free April 10th Webcast on Monitoring Watershed Program Efficiency
10) Nexus Between Energy Use and Water Infrastructure
11) EPA Signs Agreement with Federal Highway Administration for Water Liaison
12) Seven Wetland Stewards Win 2008 National Wetlands Awards
13) May is American Wetlands Month
14) EPA Announces Release of Indicator Development for Estuaries manual
15) EPA Releases New Tools to Improve Drinking Water Monitoring and Reporting
16) Water: H2O = Life Exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History; Featured on Colbert Report on Comedy Central
17) Sustainable Infrastructure Forum for Water and Wastewater
18) Monitoring: Key to Understanding Our Waters
19) GIS Tools for Strategic Conservation Planning
20) AWRA 2008 Summer Specialty Conference
21) Wetlands 2008: Wetlands and Global Climate Change
22) Enhancing the States' Lake Management Programs Building Partnerships for Improved Fisheries and Lake Water Quality
23) FLOW 2008: Interdisciplinary Solutions to Instream Flow Problems
24) WEFTEC.08 Conference
25) 44th AWRA Annual Water Resources Conference
February 28, 2008
March 6, 2007
- Watershed News - March 2007
1) Journal of the American Waters Resources Association – Special Issue on Connectivity of Headwater Streams to Downstream Waters
2) Emphasis on Conservation and Water Quality in Farm Bill Proposal
3) Smart Growth Implementation Assistance
4) Five-Star Restoration Matching Grants Program
5) Targeted Watersheds Grant Program Now Accepting Proposals
6) 2007 Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants Program Request for Proposals
7) $2.7 Million Available to Local Communities to Reduce Toxic Exposure
8) Growing Greener Grant Announcement
9) Watershed Tool of the Month: Enviromapper for Water
10) Five-Mile Creek Greenways Project is Turning Idle Brownfields into Recreational Resources
11) March 7th Webcast on Stormwater MS4 Permit Program
12) EPA's Watershed Academy to sponsor March 28th Webcast on Key EPA Internet Tools for Watershed Management
13) March 21st NALGEP Webcast on Low Impact Development and Watershed Management
14) American Wetlands Month is Just Around the Corner —Start Now to Plan a Wetlands Event
15) Alien Invaders: Invasive Species and Wetlands
16) LEED for Neighborhood Development (LEED-ND) Pilot Rating System Available
17) Utah Department of Agriculture and Food: Getting Your Feet Wet with Social Marketing
18) National Environmental Education Week is April 15-22, 2007
19) Upcoming Conferences and Workshops
Setember 7, 2006
December 20, 2005
July 25, 2005
June 23, 2005
June 6, 2005
Updated Watershed Academy course schedule available
- If you would like us to publicize a watershed-related training course not listed on the calendar, please send info on course to: wacademy@epa.gov.
November 10, 2004
- New EPA Water Quality Trading Assessment Handbook published.
November 9, 2004
- Spotlight: Watersheds at Work - EPA's Targeted Watershed Grants Program: Upper Susquehanna River (link no longer available)
July 19, 2004
May 19, 2004
- Summary information on current trading efforts in the U.S. (link no longer available)
April 22, 2004
- Updated Watershed Academy course schedule available - If you would like us to publicize a watershed-related training course not listed on the calendar, please send info on course to: wacademy@epa.gov.
April 20, 2004
- TMDL 2005 -- Call for Abstracts from the Water Environment Federation (WEF). "TMDL 2005" will be held in Philadelphia, PA on June 26-29, 2005. WEF has issued a call for abstracts; the deadline for abstracts is July 26, 2004.
February 26, 2004
-
Getting In Step: A Guide for Conducting Watershed Outreach Campaigns (PDF, 3.3MB)
This guidebook provides some of the tools that watershed practitioners need to develop and implement an effective watershed outreach plan.
December 1, 2003
- EPA's Trading web site has been revised to add some frequently asked questions about trading and the 2003 Trading Policy, and some new links to trading information.
November 19, 2003
- Florida Department of Environmental Protection recently released a report on the
Mercury TMDL Pilot Project includes data showing mercury levels have declined in
Everglades fish and wildlife.
November 6, 2003
August 15, 2003
- Water Quality Trading Assessment Handbook: EPA Region 10's Guide to Analyzing Your Watershed, EPA 910-B-03-003, July 2003, 100 pgs.
(link no longer available, new manual available)
This new Water Quality Trading Assessment Handbook is now available online. EPA's Trading Policy encourages water quality trading as a business-like way of focusing on cost-effective, local solutions to pollution problems. This handbook can help you investigate whether this tool is right for your watershed. The handbook guides you through a structured assessment of trading opportunities. It looks at the environmental, economic, and technical factors that influence your ability to create a water quality trading market.
May 15, 2003
- A detailed agenda and registration form for the National Forum on Water Quality Trading to be held in Chicago on July 22 and 23, 2003 is now available.
March 10, 2003
- The Great Lakes Trading Network (GLTN) officially changed its name to the Environmental Trading Network (ETN)
February 5, 2003
- The National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) published a new report in Dec. 2002 called
Understanding What States Need to Protect Water Quality
,
which helps support the case for more resources for water quality monitoring and state water quality programs in general. The NAPA study
confirms the reliabiliy of an earlier estimate on how much states spend and what resources they need to adequately manage water quality programs.
In 1998, a joint state-EPA effort, called the Water Quality Management Resource Analysis, estimated that state water quality programs are facing
an annual nationwide shortfall of $735 million to $960 million. In Aug., 2002, EPA and state leaders asked NAPA to conduct an independent review
of this analysis to determine whether the national estimate of the resource gap is reasonable and to recommend ways to increase the reliability
of future estimates of resource needs. After a detailed review, the Academy's Panel concluded that this estimate is "reasonable and
defensible." The Panel also observed that this process has been a valuable source of shared learning among the states and EPA, and is worth
repeating in the future. The Panel noted that these analyses provide more reliable estimates of state workloads for implementing water programs
and their associated costs. Better information on funding needs for state water quality programs -- and on the condition of the water -- will build
a beter case for filling these gaps. To view their report, please click here
.
January 29, 2003
EPA recently published a new document called Community Culture and the Environment: A Guide to Understanding a Sense of Place, EPA 842-B-01-003. (PDF, 30KB)
The Guide explores the concepts of community and culture and provides tools for identifying, assessing, and working cooperatively within the social dynamics and local values connected to environmental protection. These tools will help you define your community, identify stakeholders, enhance education and outreach, build partnerships and consensus, identify resources, plan and set goals, and integrate local realities with ecological issues. The Guide is designed for people involved in community-based initiatives, including those affiliated with community and watershed-based organizations, universities, and federal, state, tribal, and local agencies.
January 23, 2003
- On Jan. 7, EPA's Assistant Administrator, G. Tracy Mehan, III, signed the Watershed-Based National Pollutant Discharges Elimination System Permitting (NPDES) Policy. The Policy describes the benefits of watershed-based permitting, the implementing mechanisms for this component of the watershed approach, and how EPA will be encouraging an increase in the use of watershed-based NPDES permits. The Policy can be seen at: http://www.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/watershed-permitting-policy.pdf (PDF, 27KB).
December 9, 2002
New EPA Policy Memo on Committing EPA's Water Program to Advancing the Watershed Approach
-- Tracy Mehan, Assistant Administrator for Water, issued this policy memo on Dec. 3, 2002, calling for the creation of a "Watershed Management Council," comprised of EPA Headquarters and Regional Senior Executive Service managers. The memo calls for the Council to implement a number of specific actions listed in the memo and to generally explore ways to encourage the widespread adoption of watershed approaches to better address water quality problems.
October 18, 2002
Happy Birthday Clean Water Act! Yes, Oct. 18, 2002 is the 30th anniversary of the Clean Water Act.
EPA is pleased to mark the 30th anniversary of the Clean Water Act by announcing completion of the 44th Watershed Academy web-based training module called Introduction to the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States and this web-based training module provides an introduction to the major CWA programs in the following sequence: 1) water quality standards, 2) antidegradation policy, 3) waterbody monitoring and assessment, 4) reports on condition of the nation's waters, 5) total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), 6) NPDES permit program for point sources, 7) Section 319 program for nonpoint sources, 8) Section 404 program regulating filling of wetlands and other waters; 9) Section 401 state water quality certification; 10) state revolving loan fund (SRF). Users may go through the entire 65 slide module on the CWA in sequence or jump to the particular CWA program of interest by going to the CWA Big Picture that is on at the top of each slide.
For more information about the Watershed Academy Web-Based Training and Watershed Management Certificate program go to http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/.
For more information about Year of Clean Water activities, National Monitoring Day and other events go to: http://www.epa.gov/water/yearofcleanwater/. (link no longer available)
- EPA Administrator Christie Whitman spoke on June 26, 2002 to meteorologists from around the nation about the important role they can play in bringing environmental information to their audience. Whitman spoke as part of the "Eyes on the Environment" workshop being presented to weathercasters as part of the American Meteorological Society's 31st Conference on Broadcast Meteorology. Visit the new TV Broadcasters Share Watershed Info to see the Administrator's remarks, learn more about the workshop and see examples of how TV broadcasters are sharing watershed information.
- Over the past year, EPA conducted an assessment of state experiences in implementing statewide watershed management approaches. The findings
of this assessment are summarizd in a report called A Review of State Watershed
Management Approaches. (PDF Format, 173KB) The objectives of the review were threefold:
(1) identify and describe the different statewide watershed management approaches; (2) characterize and assess the experiences of selected states using different watershed approaches; and (3) develop recommendations to improve EPA's support and states' implementation of statewide watershed management. The study assessed the watershed experiences of the following states: Kentucky, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, and Washington.
June 28, 2002
EPA's Proposed Water Quality Trading Policy -- Public comment period extended until July 15, 2002 (comments must be received or post-marked by midnight on July 15, 2002).
May 15, 2002
- EPA annouced the availability of a new Proposed Water Quality Trading Policy for pubic comment in the Federal Register today. A copy of the proposed policy, Federal Register notice and fact sheet are posted on EPA's Trading web site.
May 10, 2002
- Federal Register notice announcing Public Listening Sessions on EPA's Watershed Initiative
(HTML,
PDF 38KB
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May 9, 2002
- EPA's Watershed website has a new look, including new pages on Watershed Projects, Regulations, Publications, and Watershed Links.