Program Areas, 2004-2007
The following program and service choices represent the SRWP Board of Directors’ 2004-2007 plan to ensure that current and potential uses of the Sacramento River watershed are sustained, restored, and enhanced while also promoting the long-term social
and economic vitality of the region. The Board approves the implementation of activities supportive of the following program offerings, consistent with approved budgets and other organization policies and procedures.
Strategic Goal: By 2007 SRWP will have the capability to effectively support local and regional public education, monitoring, and watershed management.
SRWP will undertake and encourage the efforts of others to acquire, interpret, and disseminate water quality and watershed health data, statistics, and reports in order to help others monitor watershed improvement and comply with government regulations.
- Sacramento River & major tributary water quality monitoring. SRWP will continue its established policies of data sharing, submitting data to DWR BDAT database, preparing annual monitoring reports, and providing effective information dissemination through
summary reports and presentations targeting decision makers.
- Funding support for tributary monitoring. The SRWP will, as resources allow and where appropriate, fund monitoring efforts of local watershed groups when the monitoring objectives of the SRWP and the local groups coincide.
- Supporting technical forums to address water related issues. The SRWP will continue to support various subcommittees and work groups to meet regularly and discuss high priority water related issues in the watershed. Existing examples include the:
- Monitoring Subcommittee
- Toxics Subcommittee
- Delta Tributaries Mercury Council
The purpose of these subcommittees and workgroups is to promote a comprehensive approach to solving these water quality problems by providing communication between different entities dealing with these issues, sharing expertise, and developing solutions
with all participants’ input.
- Provide monitoring services to watershed groups by request. The SRWP will, as resources allow and as appropriate, provide monitoring services to local watershed groups who request it, where the monitoring objectives of the SRWP and the local group coincide.
Unlike item B above, funding in this circumstance would come from the watershed group.
- Support for monitoring of watershed conditions. SRWP will support monitoring to assess overall watershed health which may be beyond the scope of what local watershed groups can perform. This may include specialized monitoring designed to collect data
on hydrology, precipitation, socioeconomic and demographic indicators, etc.
SRWP will identify audiences with interest in improving watershed health and watershed management practices, and will provide them with ongoing information, educational opportunities, and promotional events and activities in order to encourage active and
balanced support of watershed interests for all stakeholders.
- Conduct general public watershed education. SRWP will conduct a media campaign utilizing approaches such as television promotional spots, brochures, press releases, and exhibits at water-related events. SRWP will, as resources allow, provide support
for community watershed and river interpretive centers.
- Support K-12 watershed-related education. The SRWP will continue its established position to promote watershed-related and environmental K-12 education throughout the Sacramento River watershed by supporting implementation of existing water and/or environment-related
curricula in local schools. The SRWP has established formal partnerships with the GLOBE and River of Words programs within the Sacramento River watershed and the Education Coordinator is the lead in coordinating these activities. Current support for these
programs involves training educators about the programs and curricula, hosting training workshops, and coordinating awards ceremonies.
SRWP will identify watershed group needs and plans and provide information, technical, financial, and human resources to support and assist local efforts in a coordinated and cooperative way.
- Communicate information through both written materials and the SRWP website. Inform stakeholders and local watershed groups about newsworthy events or hot issues occurring in the Sacramento River watershed through the SRWP newsletter, website, press
releases, and fact sheets.
- Help build watershed group capacity. Help local watershed groups build capacity as organizations through workshops, presentations, etc. to address watershed groups’ organizational needs. These needs may vary by region within the Sacramento River watershed.
This includes helping sustain existing watershed groups over the next five years of limited budgets.
