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Watershed Planning Watershed planning centers on the basic idea that planning is most efficiently implemented on a watershed level. Planning at the watershed level makes ecological sense, as outside influences are less complex than planning across watershed boundaries. Planning can include developing plans for just about anything, from land use to air quality to traffic circulation to conserving natural resources to maintaining water quality and supply. Planners have learned that applying land use policies uniformly over a political jurisdiction, such as a city or county often does not make sense, as natural conditions between even adjacent watersheds may be significantly different. Government agencies have come to realize this and now many resource and land use policies now recognize watersheds as logical units. The most common type of watershed plans focus on maintaining or improving water quality within a watershed, often driven by regulatory requirements to protect water quality for both human use and utilization by wildlife. The California State Water Quality Control Board, through regional boards, has been a driving force behind many watershed plans in California, particularly in watersheds with waterbodies determined as impaired, having poor water quality. For example, the watershed plan near completion in eastern Ventura County, the Calleguas Creek Watershed, is driving by the need to improve water quality for beneficial uses, including for drinking water and habitat for aquatic wildlife. The Calleguas Creek Watershed Management Plan Committee, which David Magney Environmental Consulting (DMEC) has participated in since its inception in 1996, primarily through serving on the Habitat and Recreation Subcommittee. DMEC prepared the wetlands restoration plan for the Calleguas Creek Watershed, as well as identifying sensitive plant communities at risk within the watershed. These plans were used to help identify baseline conditions and guide the committee in developing specific goals and objectives to protect and improve watershed conditions in the future. DMEC also prepared a detailed assessment and characterization of Ojai City streams (second item), and made recommendations to improve water quality and habitat conditions within and downstream of the city. DMEC has the expertise and experience to gather disparate types of data and use them to create a detailed and comprehensive watershed plan. DMEC understands the rational for examining a variety of issues within a watershed and developing a suite actions to achieve specific goals and objective designed to solve multiple problems. Descriptions of watershed planning projects DMEC has worked on are described on DMEC's Projects webpage. |
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services with integrity that protect and enhance
the human and natural environment.
