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MASTER PLAN - PROCESS
Watershed
Concept Process
Sub-basin Evaluation
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PROCESS:
1) Define Watershed Wide Stakeholders
2) Define Watershed Wide Objectives
3) Define Critical Elements (watershed
integrity)
4) Identify Information Needed to
Define Critical Elements
5) Map Critical Elements & Construct
Critical Element Framework
6) Translate Critical Element Framework
& Planning Objectives to Sub-basin Scale
KEY STAKEHOLDERS:
Atlanta Regional Commission
City of Atlanta
Fulton County
Cobb County
Forsyth County
Gwinnett County
Dekalb County
Douglas County
Environmental Protection Agency
Natural Resource Conservation Service
USDA Forest Service
National Park Service
Army Corps of Engineers
Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper |
Georgia Environmental Organization
Georgia State Natural Resource Agency
Georgia State Tourism Department
State Parks of Georgia
Neighborhood Associations
Recreational User Groups
Historic Society/Associations
Trust for Public Lands
University of Georgia
Environmental Organizations
Business Community (local Chambers)
Private Sector Partners
Sub-basin monitoring groups |
Meet with stakeholders to define key planning
objectives common to entire watershed. This process would allow for definition
of key objectives (i.e. recharge areas, critical habitat, point source
pollution, etc.). List of "Navigator Crew" responsibilities would include:
1) Finalizing the Planning
Process (Watershed wide)
2) Evaluating Key
Stakeholder Participants (the Navigator Crew)
3) Defining Goals
and Objectives for watershed-wide
framework plan
4) Guide public input
process
5) Define Critical
Elements & Critical Element Framework
6) Facilitate Sub-basin
Planning efforts and supervise critical
element translation to next scale of planning and design (when
concurrent with their agency/jurisdiction - i.e. City of Atlanta,
Fulton County and Cobb County to supervise Riverway
development).
PLANNING OBJECTIVES:
A set of broad / flexible water
resource objectives are defined at the watershed scale. These objectives
may include: enhanced water quality, improved water supply, erosion and
sediment control, stormwater detention, floodplain management. This set
of objectives begins to define the information requirements for the watershed.
Watershed Scale:
CRITICAL ELEMENT FRAMEWORK
- Define watershed
- Wide objectives
Data Base to Address Watershed
Planning Objectives |
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CRITICAL ELEMENTS:
CRITICAL ELEMENTS
Define Elements that are
Critical to ensuring the long-term water resource value of the entire watershed. |
CRITICAL ELEMENTS FRAMEWORK
As a strategy to maintain
and improve watershed resource integrity, the critical elements are linked
together into a system of reserves and corridors. |
* Spatial identification of critical elements
(vegetation types, habitat, wetlands, surface hydrology, etc. and combine
to form the Critical element framework.
* Development of management objectives
for critical element areas, i.e. protect / enhance wetlands, reduce pollution
from point source, etc.
* Develop indices to monitor the condition
over-time of the critical element framework.
PROCESS DIAGRAM:
Watershed
Concept Process
Sub-basin Evaluation
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1997 Landscape Architecture
Foundation Demonstration Project
Sponsored by Urban Resources
Partnership
Last updated on 13 February
1998
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