KAPA May 2003 Marc F. Hult Banklick Watershed Council

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Licking River Watershed Watch Annual Conference
2003 Blue Licks State Park

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Banklick Watershed Council
Marc F. HultExecutive Directorhult_at_hydrologist.
com www.banklick.orginfo_at_banklick.org
Daniel Carter Beard Environmental
CenterCovington KY 41011
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Banklick Council Organization

• April - 2002 Incorporated as Kentucky non-profit
  (501 (c)(3) pending)
• Board of Directors
• Sherry Carran Assoc. Director
• Larisa Hughes N. Ky. Area Planning
• Dr. William Bryant Thomas More College
• Don Girton N. Ky. Urban Community Forestry
  Council
• John Vissman Rotary Club

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Banklick Watershed Council - Founding
Organizations

• Licking River Watershed Watch
• Kentucky Waterways Alliance
• Kentucky Division of Water
• Kenton County Conservation District
• Northern Kentucky Area Planning Commission

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Banklick Watershed Charateristics

• Covers more than two thirds of Kenton County
• In the headwaters is a small area of Boone
  County
• Poster example of stressed urbanizing watershed
• Discharges to Licking River in Covington
• Highly erosive, poorly permeable (clayey)
  soils

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BWCs Mission

• To Restore, Protect and Promote Banklick  Creek
  and its watershed
• Water Quantity (flooding)
• Water Quality (sediment, pathogens)
• Stream Health (aquatic life)
• Sediment and Erosion Control
• GreenSpace /River Corridors

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Sediment and Erosion Control

• New subdivision
• regulations under
• development for N. Kentucky by SD1
• Training and educationKenton County
  Conservation District, N, Ky Homebuilders Assoc.,
  Tetratech

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Silt Fencing
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Native Grasses Natural Landscaping
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Pathogens

• Monitoring -
• Licking River
• Watershed
• Watch

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River Corridors
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Local Land Trust Group
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• Farm Dump Clean-Ups
• - Ky. Ag. Water Quality

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Doe Run Lake Clean-Up
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BWC - Field Trip
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Photo Mike StrohmTwin Falls Fowler Creek
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Fowler Creek
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Stormwater Management
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Storm Water Forestry
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• Watersheds,
• areas defined by natural
• hydrology, represent the most logical basis for
• managing water resources

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National Urban Community Forestry Advisory
Council Grantwww.facilitykeeperonline.com/banklic
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• Watershed Analysis and Issue Characterization for
  Education and Outreach
• One of only 15 grants given nationally
• 83,600 project
• Applicant N. Ky. Area Planning Commission
• Partners Davey Resource Group
• Banklick Watershed Council
• N. Ky. Urban Community Forestry Council
• Kenton County Conservaton District

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Smart Growth Coalition Forum
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• Riverfront West Project
• In Covington

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Bank Lick Creek - 1849