Watershed Protection

Watershed Protection

 

 

Meaning of Watershed Protection

Watershed Protection The treatment of watershed lands in accordance with such predetermined objectives as the control of erosion, stream flow, silting floods, and water, forage, or timber yield. Also see Watershed Planning. Watershed Protection Approach (WPA) A type of pollution management program supported by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as being the most effective mechanism for achieving clean water and healthy, sustainable ecosystems throughout the United States. The WPA is a “placed-based” strategy that integrates water quality management activities within hydrologically defined drainage basins or watersheds as opposed to using conventional, politically-defined boundaries. The WPA allows stakeholders to tailor corrective actions to local concerns within the coordinated framework of a state, Tribal, and national water program. In addition, an emphasis on public participation provides the opportunity to incorporate environmental justice issues into watershed management. Six basic objectives form the general foundations of EPA’s watershed protection process: 1 identifying critical watersheds with EPA and state participation, 2 clearly defining the problems, general causes, and specific sources of risks and impairments to the watershed, 3 developing potential pollution prevention and control strategies, 4 implementing point and nonpoint source controls, 5 developing scientifically valid and practical indicators for gauging and reducing the risks in the watershed, and 6 developing ecological criteria that states may use in formulating future watershed protection standards.

 

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