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PrefaceThe San Juan County Watershed Management Action Plan was developed by the Watershed Management Committee, consisting of volunteer citizens, between 1997 and 1999, with adoption by the Board of County Commissioners on June 21, 2000. During the history of this project several key implementation strategies have been established and funded. San Juan County Health and Community Services, Environmental Health Section, has developed an operation and maintenance program for on-site septic systems that has received solid support from professionals and property owners (OS4, OS5, OS6, OS7). The Health Department also received a grant to develop a long-term, septage and sewage management plan, with participation from private and public operations. The San Juan County Conservation District has added two resource specialists to its staffing and received grant funding to conduct surveys in target watersheds in order to develop a plan for riparian and wetland protection and to work with landowners to develop stewardship plans for agricultural and forest lands (WQ6, WQ7, WQ9, AP1, AP2, AP5, FP1, FP2, FP3). The District just recently was awarded full funding through the Natural Resources Conservation Service for a revised soil survey for San Juan County (WQ3).
A long-term monitoring program has been
initiated by the completion of the Institute for Watershed Study's
year-long monitoring and report. Their recommendations for further
monitoring will for the basis for an ongoing program.
San Juan County
Watershed Management Committee
Betty Gilson, chair, Shaw Island
Ed Kempe, past chair, Orcas Island
Gene Richey, Lopez Island
Henning Sehmsdorf, Lopez Island
Susan Bill, Lopez Island
Bob Riggins, 12/98-6/99, Lopez Island
Ted Wixom, vice-chair, Orcas Island
Mark Theaman, 7/97-6/99, Orcas Island
John Ryberg, 6/99- , Orcas Island
Brent Snow, San Juan Island
Mark Billington, San Juan Island
Karen Matsumoto-Grah, 7/97-2/99, San Juan Island
Oliver Grah, 2/99-12/99, San Juan Island
Susan Key, 7/97-2/99, San Juan Island
Staff
Mark Tompkins, San Juan County
Vicki Heater, San Juan County
Karen Matsumoto-Grah, SJC Conservation District (2/99-1/00)
David Pater, Department of Ecology
Stuart Glasoe/Tom Cowan, Puget Sound Action Team
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