Monday, November 14, 2011

Blog Post #11


Quality Management

Water Quality Management plans are developed in the US Forest Service to preserve water quality in areas that have low quality water or low access to water. When water is in short supply, managers need to make sure that what is there is of the highest quality for both people and the fish, and animals that need it to survive. This plan is created in the National Forest of California. The State Water Resources Control Board has got to work with the USDA Forest Service and affected Regional Water Quality Control Boards to update the statewide Water Quality Management Plan (WQMP). The WQMP identifies a wide spectrum of activities that are on NFS land that cause point and non-point source pollution, especially sediment and thermal pollution, that all affect the quality of water. There is a staff level working group that works on revising the WQMP, and a policy-level group that works on the policy direction. The staff level working group seeks input from a broad range of stakeholders.

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