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Watershed-based approaches to pollution prevention and environmental
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UC Center for Water
Resources
The mission of the Center for Water Resources is to stimulate and
support water and water-related research both within and among the
various academic departments and research organizations of the University.
The broad research focus includes the conservation, development,
management, distribution, and utilization of water resources with
a view to the optimum present and future use.
California Regional Water
Quality Control Board, San Diego Region (9)
:Basin Plan, Berkeley Digital Library Copy (October 12, 1995)
Water
Quality Control Plan for the San Diego Basin Region (9)
Basin Plan (RWQCB zip file copy, March 1998): http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/rwqcb9/misc/
State Water Resources Control
Board, Regional Water Quality Control Boards
Strategic
Plan (November 2001)
EPA
Watershed Tools Directory
This directory describes several hundred methods, models, data sources
and other approaches that States and communities can use in managing
watersheds to improve or maintain water quality for human health
and ecological purposes. The Directory was prepared under the guidance
of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Assistant Administrator
for Water to promote the Watershed Approach by facilitating the
exchange of information on technical protection measures.
Watershed Planning Guide:
Link to list of publications, including the Watershed Planning
Guide
http://www.coastalconservancy.ca.gov/Publications/pubs.htm
Link directly to pdf of the Watershed Planning Guide
http://www.coastalconservancy.ca.gov/Publications/ws_planning_guide.pdf
Putting Together a Watershed Management Plan
http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/KYW/Brochures/PutTogether.html
Rapid Watershed Planning Handbook
http://www.cwp.org/watershed_planning.htm
Coordinated Resource Management and Planning Handbook
http://www.cacrmp.org/resources/handbook.htm
WATERSHED RESTORATION: A Guide for Citizen Involvement in California
http://ceres.ca.gov/watershed/restoration/Kier95.PDF
Top 10 Watershed Lessons Learned
http://www.epa.gov/owow/lessons/top10.pdf
EPA Watershed Resources
http://www.epa.gov/adopt/resources/watersheds.html
Addressing the Need to Protect California’s Watersheds:
Working in Partnerships
http://resources.ca.gov/watershedtaskforce/AB2117LegReport_041102.pdf
SAN DIEGO RIVER CONSERVANCY
http://www.sandiegoriver.org/SD_River_Conservancy.htm
http://www.projectcleanwater.org/html/wurmp_san_diego_river.html
San Diego Bay Project of The Interagency Water Quality Panel and
SDSC
http://sdbay.sdsc.edu/
http://www.projectcleanwater.org/html/wurmp_san_diego_bay.html
Tijuana River
http://www.american.edu/ted/TIJUANA.HTM
http://www.ocrm.nos.noaa.gov/nerr/reserves/nerrtijuana.html
http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=669
http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/TJWATER/
http://typhoon.sdsu.edu/twrp/tijuana.html
http://ceres.ca.gov/wetlands/geo_info/so_cal/tijuana_index.html
http://inlet.geol.sc.edu/TJR/sitedescription.html
http://ceres.ca.gov/wetlands/geo_info/so_cal/tijuana_estuary.html
http://www.sdearthtimes.com/et0694/et0694s1.html
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/pagis/html/tijuana.htm
http://www.cleanwater.gov/success/tijuana.html
http://hurricane.sdsu.edu/tj/metadata/wshdbnd.htm
http://www.projectcleanwater.org/html/wurmp_tijuana_river.html
PRESENTATIONS
County of San Diego's Clean Water Summit, June 21, 2002, Presentation
by Keith Pezzoli
http://www.projectcleanwater.org/html/clean_water_summit-plan.html
RESEARCH PROJECTS
GIS and on-line interactive mapping of
toxics data for watershed management
Principal Researchers
Keith Pezzoli (Urban Studies
and Planning; SBRP Outreach Core PI), Ilya
Zaslavsky (Spatial Information Systems Lab, San Diego Supercomputer
Center), Richard Marciano
(Knowledge-Based Information Systems Lab, San Diego Supercomputer
Center), Dan Henderson
(UCSD Library, GIS Lab), Shane
DeGross (TELESIS), Alejandro
Hinojosa (CICESE).
Purpose
Develop the Superfund Basic Research Program's on-line interactive
mapping and 3D visualization of toxics data in relationship to water
quality, land use and environmental health in the San Diego-Tijuana
crossborder city-region.
Background
UCSD’s SBRP Outreach Core has been making steady progress
since the program began two years ago. Several experimental GIS-based
mapping demos are now available on the SBRP Web site (see the “interactive
mapping” link at http://superfund.ucsd.edu).
These demos have been shown at public sector agencies and events
throughout the San Diego-Tijuana crossborder region (e.g., County
of San Diego’s Clean Water Summit, San
Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board, San
Diego Association of Governments, Municipal Institute of Planning
in Tijuana, CICESE/Ensenda).
Project Description
This project will generate a series of watershed-based maps and
new analytic methods for relating toxics data to critical issues
involving water quality, land use and environmental health. The
research design will compare 3 of the 11 hydrologic units that constitute
the San
Diego Hydrologic Region (Sweetwater, Santa Margarita, Tijuana).
The Tijuana
Watershed is divided by the U.S.-Mexican border. All three watersheds
drain west into the Pacific Ocean. The region’s rapid urbanization
has led to an unfortunate situation where many of the SDHR’s
water bodies are classified as impaired on the California
303(d) list. Factors contributing to declining water quality
include elevated coliform bacteria and trace metals, aquatic and
sediment toxicity, nutrient enrichment, and sedimentation. Several
water bodies are impaired for multiple stressors including the Tijuana
River (Project
Clean Water, 2001).
This pilot study will identify the available water quality data
for each of the three selected watersheds, provide a framework for
data collection and metadata creation, and produce maps both static
and interactive depicting existing data and data gaps. This kind
of data asset mapping will shed much needed light on a number of
daunting science-based policy and planning challenges, in particular
public sector efforts to develop TMDLs. A TMDL refers to the “total
maximum daily load” of a pollutant that can enter a water
body before said water body becomes impaired from an environmental
health standpoint. The TMDL program has been the subject of much
national and regional discussion. A recent report by the National
Research Council (2001), titled “Assessing
the TMDL Approach to Water Quality Management,” notes
how difficult it has been to utilize rigorous scientific methods
in the TMDL process. The watershed approach has gained prominence
nationally as a coordinating framework for TMDLs and environmental
management. It helps public and private sector interests determine
the highest priority problems within hydrologically-defined geographic
areas, taking into consideration both ground and surface water flow.
The research proposed here aims to help the San Diego Regional Water
Quality Control Board deal with the kinds of data collection and
data georeferencing/mapping challenges it faces in the development
of TMDLs. This lays a crucial foundation for ultimately linking
Superfund science to policy and planning. In the case of UCSD’s
SBRP, scientists are studying many of the toxics that contribute
to the impairment of the San Diego-Tijuana region’s water
bodies.
Specific tasks to be completed are noted below:
• Map data quality monitoring stations, displaying continuous
(real time) data quality values (where possible) on the map
• Explore the monitoring station coverage by different
watersheds, compare areas of higher industrial and population
pressure, and identify locations where additional monitoring stations
would be most useful; build GIS models for identifying new station
sites
• Characterize and compare watersheds from the perspective
of land use, population density, industrial pressure, and present
the aggregate information on dynamic watershed maps on the Internet
• Define interfaces for spatially integrating watershed
data with quality of life and health data stored in the San Diego
Quality of Life
(QoL) data warehouse built and hosted by TELESIS
(TELESIS is a non-profit research and consulting agency based
in San Diego; UCSD and TELESIS have jointly signed a formal MOU
to work together on regional data integration projects).
• Develop attractive user interfaces for the general public
where interactive maps of pollution will be intertwined with stories,
multimedia (audio, video, animations), links to relevant resources,
and information about selected Regional Workbench projects.
• Share results and lessons learned via a Workshop for
select SBRP Outreach Core leaders nationally
• Write up the results in a report for posting on the
SBRP Web site
Other Projects
Digital River Basins
Summary: Through a major, three-year grant from the National Science
Foundation, NCSA and three Midwest museums are developing museum-based
"digital river basins" in which individuals or groups
can visualize physical, biological, and cultural facets of the
river and its floodplain. Large, horizontal displays linked to
consoles will provide distinct views into digital stretches of
river and floodplain. Virtual tools will allow users to navigate
on or under the surface or across the landscape and sample flow,
depth, turbidity, sediment, and species abundances. An accompanying
website will support Internet access to simulations and data resources,
as well as other exploratory or learning activities. http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/TechFocus/Projects/NCSA/RiverWeb.html
Modular architecture and exhibit space
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/RiverWeb/Projects/RWMuseum/products.html
NSF grant project summary
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/RiverWeb/Proposals/RiverWeb.Mus.narrative.htm
Technical components
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Cyberia/RiverWeb/Proposals/NSCA.Mus.tech.appdx.htm
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