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| Title | Puget Sound Characterization - Volume 1: The Water Resource Assessments (Water Flow and Water Quality) |
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Puget Sound Characterization - Volume 1: The Water Resource Assessments (Water Flow and Water Quality) (Number of pages: 75) (Publication Size: 6955KB)
Addendum to Volume 1: Version 2.0 Update of the Puget Sound Characterization Broad-Scale Models (60 pages) (5MB) Appendix A (3 pages) (105KB) Appendix B (59 pages) (1MB) Appendix C (64 pages) (2MB) Appendix D (97 pages) (10MB)
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| Author(s) | Stephen Stanley, Susan Grigsby, Derek Booth, David Hartley, Richard Horner, Tom Hruby, Jennifer Thomas, Pam Bissonnette, Robert Fuerstenberg, Joan Lee, Patricia Olson, and George Wilhere | ||||||
| Description | The Puget Sound Characterization is a set of water and habitat assessments that compare areas within a watershed for restoration and protection value. It is a coarse-scale decision-support tool that provides information for regional, county, and watershed-based planning. The information it provides will allow local and regional governments, as well as NGOs, to base their decisions regarding land use on a systematic analytic framework that prioritizes specific geographic areas on the landscape as focus areas for protection, restoration, and conservation of our region’s natural resources, and that also identifies areas that are likely more suitable for development. Application of this method should result in future land-use patterns that protect the health of Puget Sound’s terrestrial and aquatic resources while also helping to direct limited financial resources to the highest priority areas for restoration and protection. |
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| NOTES | Editor’s Note: This March 2015 revision of the original document, published in April 2012, corrects an equation calculating recharge described in Appendix B. Appendix C remains the same, but the associated water quality maps reflect a correction to the model script regarding the N_SPECT sediment degradation analysis to not apply landscape groups. Appendix D is added October 2016. An addendum to Volume 1 is added in July, 2019. With this addendum Ecology updates the Water Flow models to reflect more recent spatial data, changes to assessment unit boundaries, and testing of model stability which lead to a refined index aggregation formula for the Overall Water Flow assessment. The addendum should not be used as a stand-alone document, but in conjunction with Volume 1. | ||||||
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| Contact | Colin Hume at 425-395-5283 or colin.hume@ecy.wa.gov | ||||||
| Keywords | watershed management, puget sound watershed, water quality, assessment, water resources, watershed, watershed planning, Puget Sound | ||||||
| WEB PAGE | Puget Sound Watershed Characterization Project (includes links to associated GIS data) | ||||||
| RELATED PUBLICATIONS | Title:
Quality Assurance Project Plan for Puget Sound Watershed Characterization Technical Assistance Quality Assurance Project Plan for Puget Sound Watershed Characterization Technical Assistance Puget sound Watershed Characterization, Volume 4: Mid-Scale Assessment of Hydrologic Condition Characterization Results for Springbrook Creek Watershed, Bainbridge Island, Washington Quality Assurance Project Plan Puget Sound Watershed Characterization Development & Testing of Mid-Scale Models & Updates to Broad Scale Assessment Models Watershed Characterization for WRIA 7 The Puget Sound Watershed Characterization Project: Volume 2 (Habitat Assessments) Users Guide for the Puget Sound Watershed Characterization - Draft, June 2013 Puget Sound Watershed Characterization - Introduction to the Water Flow Assessment for Puget Sound Puget Sound Watershed Characterization Project: Description of Methods, Models and Analysis (Draft for Peer Review) Watershed Characterization and Analysis of South Lewis County River Basin Characterization |
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