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WRIA 43 Phase 3 Plan Development

WRIA 43 Phase 3 Plan Development. Building a Watershed Plan with the Functions and Values of the WRIA 43 Planning Unit. TIME SCHEDULE. WRIA 43 Watershed Plan due to County Commissioners (Lincoln, Adams, Grant, and Spokane) by November 2006 .

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WRIA 43 Phase 3 Plan Development

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  1. WRIA 43Phase 3 Plan Development Building a Watershed Plan with the Functions and Values of the WRIA 43 Planning Unit

  2. TIME SCHEDULE • WRIA 43 Watershed Plan due to County Commissioners (Lincoln, Adams, Grant, and Spokane) by November 2006. • All County Commissioners must approve Watershed Plan for process to move forward. • WRIA 43 started in January 2000 • Started Phase 3 in October 2005

  3. TIME SCHEDULE • Most Watersheds take 12 to 24 months to write their Watershed Plan • WRIA 43: Looking to get draft Watershed Plan submitted to Planning Unit by June 1, 2006 (grant requires by July 17, 2006) so have time to review during summer.

  4. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN! YOU WILL BE GETTING LOTS OF INFORMATION PRESENTED TO YOU OVER A 6 MONTH TIME PERIOD. Steering Committee is developing and reviewing the contents of the Plan But you will have plenty of time to review and comment on information....We need your input for success

  5. Development of Plan 1) Issue = comprehensive problem statement of what the Planning Unit would like to address in the plan 2) Goal = what specific result the Planning Unit would like to accomplish in the issue statement 3) Objective = how to approach goal and what you want to accomplish (cause of problem and trends) 4) Alternative Solution = action proposed (recommendations for studies, actions and policies w/ obligated party identified)

  6. Issues and Goals: These are the general statements of what you want in the plan More of a philosophical or comprehensive statement Objectives and Alternatives These are the more specific actions you want to accomplish Focus on specific recommendations for studies, actions and policies An Easy Way to Lookat the Issue-Goal-Objective-Alternative Contents

  7. Example: WRIA 59

  8. Example: WRIA 62

  9. Example: WRIA 56

  10. WRIA 43 Issue Development

  11. We Need Your Input • February 20 Working Draft of Alternative Table is available for your review • Look through the 5 Issues and the Goals and Objectives being developed • If you want to add things that are a concern to you.....contact us!!! • The tables are the foundation of the Watershed Plan

  12. OPEN DISCUSSION ISSUE • Looking to the future – Implementing the Plan: Who-How-When • Forming a Watershed Implementation Team (WIT) to oversee and implement Plan • Forward looking to setup a partnership to assist in the water resource decision making in the watershed • State law deems Ecology as the sole managers for water resources

  13. OPEN DISCUSSION ISSUE • Solution – MOA w/ Ecology for shared governance as outlined in the POLICY we set in the Plan • To have support of the law in shared governance, and as outlined in HB 1336, we need to have strong policy statements in the Watershed Plan

  14. NEXT MEETING MARCH 21st ODESSA OLD TOWN HALL

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