sediment transport out of balance

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sediment transport out of balance

• too much sediment filling our bays and harbors
• erosion damaging stream courses, roads, water
  pipes
• from poor land management practices
• from changes to hydrology

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loss of habitat
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what you can do

• Best Management Practices
• behavioral
• structural

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resources!

• www.epa.gov/owow
• EPA Office of Water Watersheds
• watersheds weather
• WS information network (address, data, maps, WS
  health, get involved, laws, training)
• Adopt Your Watershed
• WS Academy (live online training)
• www.ocwatersheds.com
• County of Orange Watershed Division

• www.coastal.ca.gov/publiced/pendx.html
• Coastal Commission Waves, Wetlands Watersheds
  Program
• www.earth911.org
• Earth911 activities, lesson plans, links
• www.nationalgeographic.com/
• National Geographic pages for kids, parents,
  students, teachers

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