WRIA 62 WMP 032305 - Washington State Department of Ecology

March, 2005 -115- 023-1289-003.3040
4. The Watershed Planning Unit recommends that the Implementing
Body implement the water quality monitoring plan developed in the
Phase II Level 2 report. The recommendations of this plan are:
WRIA 62 WMP 032305
1. Coordinated TMDL development and implementation in WA
and ID;
2. Conduct biological and baseline monitoring in WRIA 62 subbasins
that drain from WA into ID;
3. Conduct temperature studies on the Pend Oreille River between
Box Canyon and Canada;
4. Develop water quality datasets that are comparable between
WRIA 62 waterbodies;
5. Conduct water quality monitoring in sub-basins where
population growth is predicted;
6. Develop and implement a stormwater program for urban areas;
7. Recommend that Ecology upgrade the Metaline Falls
monitoring site to a core monitoring location;
8. Increase the use of coordinated and comparable biological
monitoring;
9. Require the use of water quality monitoring plans, QAPPs and
comparable protocols;
10. Develop a WRIA 62 data management system; and,
11. Install freeze protection on automated equipment in WRIA 62
tributaries.
5. Recommend that Pend Oreille County Planning consider any
ordinances that may help reduce the impacts of population growth on
water quality.
WP 35, WP 37,
Study
WP 38, Other
SEPA