Watershed Committee Update 12/01

Update from Hydrologic and Habitat Modification Working Group. Attached is the Agenda from the November meeting.
Some interesting work going on for those interested in non-point source pollution, watershed management and stream restoration.

Some new grant opportunities for Great Lakes Coastal Watershed Restoration Grant Program at http://www.dos.state.ny.us/cstl/cstlwww.html and http://www.dec.state.ny.us some information was going to the printers when I was at the meeting. Details should be out by now.

If anything on the Agenda looks interesting give me a call.
Check out this web site from NYS Soil & Water Conservation Committee - go to Current News and look at Down to Earth Brief 13 November http://www.nys-soilandwater.org
You can access the New NY State Stormwater Manual.
The Center for Watershed Protection is pleased to announce the completion of the "New York State Stormwater Management Design Manual." The Manual provides designers with a general overview on how to size, design, select, and locate stormwater management practices at a development site to comply with NY State stormwater performance standards. This manual is a key component of the Phase II State Pollution Discharge Elimination
System(SPDES) general permit for stormwater runoff from construction
activities from all sizes of disturbance. The manual can be found at
http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dow/swmanual/swmanual.html and can be downloaded for free.
The manual was prepared by the Center for Watershed Protection for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and made available to the Empire State Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society for distribution. .

Dan

Daniel D.O'Brien, P.E.
Senior Engineer
Geovation Consultants, Inc.
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P.O. Box 293
Florida, NY 10921
Phone: (845) 651-4141
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