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Table 8-1 Benefits of Goals No Goal Benefit 1 Educate the Public about the Importance of Protecting and Managing the Watershed To increase public knowledge and awareness in order to facilitate the paradigm shift needed to change adverse behavior affecting our watersheds 2 Provide a Sustainable and Equitable Funding Source To fund implementation and ensure long term institutionalization of the plan 3 Encourage Water Quality Friendly Development 4 Restore and Enhance Recreational Uses through Development of a Watershed Recreation Plan 5 Protect and Enhance Habitat for Wildlife and Aquatic Animals through Development of a Watershed Habitat Plan 6 Protect and Increase Wetlands through Development of a Watershed Habitat Plan 7 Provide Pollution Prevention/Good Housekeeping Practices for Municipal Operations 8 Strive to Eliminate Pathogens to Meet Total and Partial Body Contact for Recreational Uses 9 Encourage Water Quality Friendly Agricultural Practices To prevent or minimize the effects of urbanization on water quality through ordinances, planning and long-term operation and maintenance requirements To reconnect the public to their local water resources thus fostering a stewardship ethic To protect our natural resources that provide economic and social benefits To protect wetlands that provide water quality improvements, reduced flow rates, increased groundwater infiltration and natural habitat To minimize the impacts of municipal operations on receiving waterbodies, whereby improving water quality To protect public health and foster increased recreational uses of our water resources To minimize impacts of agricultural operations on the receiving waterbodies , whereby improving water quality When establishing the implementation schedule, the economic, social, political and watershed cost and benefit of each action were taken into account. The municipalities and stakeholders entered into an iterative consensus building process that melded together these various considerations. The process of establishing the schedule resulted in a product that effectively “ranks” each action based upon the perceived benefit and cost associated with that action relative to all other actions. Evaluation Mechanisms are further discussed in Section 9 Action Plan Table The remainder of this section is composed primarily of the action plan table. There are nine goals and a number of objectives and actions to assist in fulfilling each goal. The Action Plan contains a number of new committees that have been developed to assist in implementation of the WMP. These committees are discussed in detail in Section 10, Plan Sustainability Section 8: Action Plan 8-3
Abbreviations BMP Best Management Practices Central Bus Sustain BF Central Business Sustainable Business Forum Civic Organizations Civic Organizations (e.g. environ groups, master/local gardeners, scouts, 4H etc.) Conserv Districts Conservation Districts CREP Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program CRP Conservation Reserve Program FSA Farm Service Agency Fund Com Funding Committee GLA Greater Lansing Area GLRC Greater Lansing Regional Committee GLRC Crd Greater Lansing Regional Committee Coordinator GLRC Exec Comm GLRC Executive Committee Hab-Rec Com Habitat and Recreation Committee Health Dept Health Department IDEP Illicit Discharge Elimination Program LID Low Impact Development MDA Michigan Department of Agriculture MDEQ Michigan Department of Environmental Quality MDNR Michigan Department of Natural Resources MTA Michigan Township Association NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System NRCS Natural Resource Conservation Service O&M Operations and Maintenance Ord/BMP Com Ordinance and BMP Committee PEP Public Education Plan PEP Com Public Education Committee Permittees Individual NDPES Municipal Separate Stormwater System Phase II permittees PIPP Pollution Incident Prevention plan SOP Standard Operating Procedures TCRPC Tri-County Regional Planning Commission WMP Watershed Management Plan References Basetree. “Starting line photo.” via http://www.basetree.com/photos/bayto-breakers/the-race.html. Last accessed May 24, 2005. Michigan Land Use Leadership Council, (August, 2003). Michigan's Land, Michigan's Future (2003). Accessed July 26, 2005 at http://www.smartgrowth.org/pdf/gettosg.pdf. 8-4 Looking Glass River Watershed April 2007
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Organization of the Plan This plan
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References Centers for Disease Cont
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3. Water Quality Conditions People
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