Tools for Linking Management Measures to Water Quality

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Tools for Linking Management Measures to Water
Quality

• Information Center for the Environment
• Mike Byrne
• March 6, 2001

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Outline

• Background
• NRPI
• Management Measures Management Practices Data
• RWQCB TMDL support

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Background

• ICE is
• A Team of Analysts, Specialists, and Programmers
• Researching and developing methods for
  integrating spatial data and multiple databases
• In order to provide better resource decision
  making tools

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Background

• Cooperative Facility (interdepartmental) within
  the Dept. of Environmental Science and Policy
• GIS, database and modeling support
• Public access to data, maps, models and reports
• Maintains one of the most extensive on-line
  environmental bibliographies
• Website is accessed over 14,000 times per week

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Natural Resource Projects Inventory (NRPI)

• A Cooperative Effort Between

UC Davis Information Center for the Environment
(ICE)
California Biodiversity Council
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Natural Resource Projects Inventory (NRPI)
http//endeavor.des.ucdavis.edu/nrpi/
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Natural Resource Projects Inventory (NRPI)

• A searchable on-line database with nearly 2000
  watershed management and on-the-ground
  restoration projects in California
• A decision support tool and tracking device for
  resource managers and the public, receiving over
  1200 hits daily
• Contains over 2400 cooperators, funders, and
  landowners 1600 contacts and 1200 species
• Over 1600 projects are spatially referenced

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NRPI Overview
Internet

California Rivers Assessment (CARA)
Watershed Groups Database
ICEMaps2 On-line Mapping
CORE DATA
CA Noxious Weed Control Projects
Inventory (CalWeed)
CA Ecological Restoration Projects Inventory
(CERPI)
Watershed Projects Inventory (WPI)
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Components of NRPI Database

• WPI (Watershed Projects Inventory)
• Started with funds from CBC to UC Davis in 1993,
  with primary direction and support from CDFG and
  SWRCB
• Additional support from BLM, CDF and USEPA
• Focus is on projects with 3 or more cooperators
• Can be a watershed plan that is yet to be
  implemented
• Contains contacts, purpose, location, habitat,
  species, cooperators, methods and more
• http//endeavor.des.ucdavis.edu/wpi/

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Components of NRPI Database

• CERPI (Ecological Restoration Projects)
• Funded in 1996 through grant from USEPA, plus
  matching funds from CA Department of Conservation
  and CA Chapter of the Society for Ecological
  Restoration (SERCAL)
• On-the-ground restoration projects
• Can be single group or multi-group effort
• Same data fields as WPI
• http//endeavor.des.ucdavis.edu/cerpi/

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Components of NRPI Database

• CalWeed (California Noxious Weed Control Projects
  Inventory)
• Group formed by the Signing of a Memorandum of
  Understanding (1995 1997) by sixteen State and
  Federal Agencies
• An Inventory of Noxious Weed Projects in
  California Searchable by Species, Controls,
  Location, etc.
• An On-line Encyclopedia of Weed biology and
  Control Data with additional links
• http//endeavor.des.ucdavis.edu/cerpi/

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Other Projects

• EPAs California Water Quality Planning Projects
• http//www.epa.gov/region09/water/projects/
• Includes all 319(h) and 205(j) projects
• CALFED Ecosystem Restoration Projects
• Spatial and text searches for projects including
  CALFED Ecological Management Unit Boundaries,
  Watershed Boundaries, Political Boundaries (in
  development)

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Web-based Interfaces in Progress

• My Watershed Page (in development)
• Accessible on the Sacramento River Watershed
  Program Homepage http//sacriver.org
• Will query NRPI database by Sacramento River
  watershed map
• San Francisco Bay Fund Inventory Project (in
  development)
• Will provide access to NRPI data through
  clickable map

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Management Measures - Management Practices

• For SWRCB
• Track the effectiveness of Management Measures
• Tag to Authorities
• Issues
• No standardization (between agencies) of BMPs
• No clear idea of effectiveness

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Management Measures - Management Practices

• Strategy
• Tag projects (TMDL watersheds) with measures and
  practices
• GPS the site
• Photo Document the site

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Management Measures - Management Practices

• Create a Database for
• Tracking
• Initiation
• Implementation
• Effectiveness
• Enter projects into NRPI
• Digital Photographic evidence
• Register to Authorities Database

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Management Measures - Management Practices

• Outcome
• GIS ready
• Simple documentation of management measures and
  practices
• Return potential to examine effectiveness
• Database, searchable, on-line
• Standards
• Pilot additional in depth work

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Region 5 TMDL Support

• TMDL on the Sacramento River for Diazinon
• Spray for dormant orchards
• Grouping of Management Practices to reduce
• Runoff reduction
• Selection of pest management strategies
• Application methods
• Voluntary - Survey

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Region 5 TMDL Support

• Create a survey to assess the amount of voluntary
  management practices
• Compile survey into a database
• Spatially Reference the survey
• Create GIS tools to view CA Dept. Pesticide
  Regulation Data and survey data in one framework

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Region 5 TMDL Support

• Amount of pesticide applied per 1 square mile
• Land Use (Orchard)
• Almond, Prune, Peaches, Walnuts
• Amount of pesticide applied per orchard
• Types and amount of BMPs per orchard
• Identify trends in pesticide reduction

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Diazinon Use in the Sacramento Valley
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Region 5 TMDL Support

• Provide mechanism in ArcView to see where
  Management Practices are reducing the amount of
  Diazinon run-off
• Over time

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Information Center for the Environment

• http//www.ice.ucdavis.edu
• Mike Byrne msbyrne_at_ucdavis.edu
• Kevin Ward kcward_at_ucdavis.edu

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Coming Soon for NRPI

• On-line NRPI Data Entry Form
• Tracking system for Authorities, Management
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• Photo documentation of implemented BMPs
• Boolean Query system for NRPI database

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How to Participate

• Download NRPI form at
• http//endeavor.des.ucdavis.edu/nrpi/
• Obtain form included in RFP for Calfeds
  Ecosystem Restoration Projects, EPAs 319(h) and
  205(j) Grants, Prop 13s three new RFPs, and
  DWRs Urban Stream Restoration Project
• Contact Kevin Ward at (ph) 530-752-2378, (fax)
  530-752-3350 or email at kcward_at_ucdavis.edu