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Understanding Your Watershed: Tools and Resources for Effective Water Management

Explore the importance of watersheds in water resources management through data and mapping tools. This comprehensive overview by Carmen Masó and Lucy Stanfield from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency introduces EPA's My Environment, Enviromapper for Water, Google Earth, and other essential mapping services. Learn about Hydrologic Unit Codes and watershed boundaries using the Salt Fork Watershed as a case study. This workshop provides a training manual, detailed mapping tools, worksheets, and relevant website links to enhance your watershed understanding and management skills.

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Understanding Your Watershed: Tools and Resources for Effective Water Management

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  1. Understand your watershed through data & maps Carmen Masó & Lucy Stanfield U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

  2. Tools • EPA’s My Environment • Enviromapper for Water • Google Earth • Illinois Resource Management Mapping Service

  3. What is a Watershed Boundary? A base layer of drainage boundaries and watershed information used in a wide variety of applications by those involved in water-resources management

  4. Hydrologic Unit Codes Example: 071200040404 (12-digit HUC) for Salt Fork Watershed 05 12 01 09 06 05 Region Sub-watershed Subregion Watershed Basin Sub-basin Boundaries are delineated from 1:24,000 scale USGS topographic maps, digital elevation models, and digital raster graphic files.

  5. Sample quick presentation

  6. Watershed overview: Salt Fork, Illinois

  7. Land Cover - 2001 Population Density - 2000

  8. Materials for today’s workshop • Training Manual • Overview of Watershed • Mapping tools with step-by-step instructions • Watershed Worksheet to fill out • Website links • Google Earth tips • On your desktop • Folder named Watershed Training

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