Andrew DeGraves Friends of the St. Joe River Mark Kieser & Nicole Ott Kieser & Associates

1. Update on the Friends of the St. Joe River Association Section 319 Basin-wide Watershed Planning Activities Andrew DeGraves Friends of the St. Joe River Mark Kieser & Nicole Ott Kieser & Associates

2. Work Plan Objectives • Watershed-wide stakeholder participation (bi-state) • Assessment of watershed concerns • Building upon ongoing efforts • Compile available data for effective watershed planning • Develop solutions on a watershed basis • An approvable watershed management plan • A flexible, working watershed plan framework accessible to all • Creation of a web-based approach to communicate all key project elements

5. ….and avoid getting flooded in data? How do you analyze a large watershed…

6. Find major sources of data GIS/Modeling Interviews of Stakeholders Electronic Data Collection

7. Nonpoint Source Modeling Subwatershed Scoring PRIORITIZATION Use GIS Tools for Analysis of Spatial Data

8. Green Belt Brown Belt Identification of Regional Patterns

9. Major Watershed Scoring Combine 217 subwatersheds of tributaries to main stem to form 42 major units.

10. Major Watershed Scoring Average Preservation Scores

11. Major Watershed Scoring Average Mitigation Scores

12. Major Watershed Scoring Average Percent Total Impervious Area

13. What’s Next for the Project? • Confirming final goals for the WMP • Analyzing existing land use policies • Identifying model ordinances • Drafting the WMP • Organizing data for access by various means

14. Benefits of the Basin-wide WMP • Defining critical issues and workable solutions • Coordination/cooperation to move larger planning efforts forward • Share successes and resources • Clearinghouse for watershed information • Platform for new initiatives (avoid “reinventing the wheel”) • Gateway for leveraging implementation funding • Cost-sharing (avoid duplication of efforts) • A healthy river requires overlapping (political and subwatershed) approaches

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