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UNRBA has set up this blog to facilitate stakeholder review of Focus Areas for strategies recommended in the Upper Neuse Watershed Management Plan as part of its Implementation Planning Process.
The Focus Areas analyses will tell us WHERE we need to focus our efforts by looking at growth patterns and environmental characteristics such as soils, hydrology, and impervious cover. For example, it may be more important to have a local Sediment and Erosion control program in a fast-growing area with highly erosive soils.
The goal of this process and the blog is to get input on these characteristics and their relative importance so that we can determine which areas should be “Focus Areas.” UNRBA has started to create maps of Focus Areas for each strategy but we would prefer to have input on the criteria and environmental characteristics that should be considered.
Maps of all Focus Area characteristics are available for all completed Recommendation Sheets. There is a blog page with each map, along with a link to a PDF file (for ease of printing) and a link to the Recommendation Sheet for each strategy, which explains the strategy and how it can be implemented at the local level. The map graphic on the page is a little small, but if you click on it, a new window will open with a separate graphic that you can zoom in on.
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Strategy #1 (Nutrient Reduction) Focus Area
Stragegy #2 (Riparian Buffers for New Development) Focus Area
Stragegy #3 (Peak Flow Controls) Focus Area
Stragegy #4 (Stormwater Control Inspections) Focus Area
Stragegy #5 (Long-Term Water Quality Monitoring Program) Focus Area
Stragegy #6 (Septic System Maintenance & Inspections) Focus Area
Stragegy #7 (Construction Site Inspections & Enforcement) Focus Area
Stragegy #8&9 (Sewer Maintenance and Illicit Connection Enforcement) Focus Area
Stragegy #10 (Animal Operations Management) Focus Area
Stragegy #11 (Low-Impact Development Education) Focus Area
Stragegy #12 (Targeted Lands Acquisition and Conservation Easements) Focus Area
Stragegy #13 (Watershed Education Programs) Focus Area
Stragegy #14 (Forestry Education & Outreach) Focus Area
Stragegy #15 (Agricultural Education & Outreach) Focus Area
Stragegies #16&17 (Watershed Restoration) Focus Area
Stragegy #18 (NPDES Point Source Requirements) Focus Area: Coming Soon
Stragegy #19 (Advanced Tertiary Wastewater Treatment) Focus Area: Coming Soon
July 9, 2008 at 7:13 pm
The maps only show future urban growth for Durham county. I have seen future urban growth maps for Wake County. Do you have that data? Hillsboro and Butner-Creedmore will also have growth in the future.
Jim McManus