USEPA Targeted Watersheds 2004
Nomination of the Tri-State Bear River Basin for the U.S. EPA Watershed
Initiative Program
 A collaborative team at
Utah State University, the Utah Water Reserach Laboratory, Utah Division of
Water Quality, the Bear River Comission, and others participated in nominating
the Bear River as a Targeted Watershed for EPA's Targeted Watersheds Grants
Program. This study, which will be funded for three years starting Fall of
2004, will implement studies in the tri-state Bear River basin to develop and
demonstrate: 1) an integrated Watershed Information System to facilitate data
collection, data analysis, information transfer, and public outreach; 2) a
water quality trading program to allow point and nonpoint pollutant sources to
trade water quality credits; and 3) dynamic water quality modeling to support
water quality trading and analysis of potential water quality management
scenarios. The research team believes that water quality will be improved
through an integrative holistic perspective on the watershed facilitated by the
integrated Watershed Information System, and that trading will promote the most
economically beneficial solutions to water quality problems within the
geographic constraints and physical connectivity of the river basin and stream
network.
Targeted Watersheds 2004 links:
Full text of the collaborative proposal:
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