Strategies for Protecting and Restoring Rhode Island's Watersheds on Multiple Scales
| Autor: | Walter Galloway, Henry A. Walker, Robert Adler, Suzanne M. Lussier, Michael A. Charpentier, Gerald G. Pesch, Jane Copeland, Randy Comeleo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
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Clean Water Act
Geographic information system business.industry Process (engineering) Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis Ecological Modeling media_common.quotation_subject Environmental resource management Pollution Natural resource Human health New england Geography Quality (business) Ecosystem business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal. 7:1483-1491 |
| ISSN: | 1549-7860 1080-7039 |
| Popis: | The Clean Water Act has traditionally preserved the quality and quantity of a region's water by focusing resources on areas with known or anticipated problems. USEPA Region 1 is taking the supplemental, longer-range approach of protecting areas of New England where natural resources are still healthy. As part of Region 1 's “New England Resource Protection” approach, stakeholders participate in an open process that identifies healthy ecosystems and characterizes how well they support aquatic life and human health. Since the concerns of stakeholders are usually local, the process also displays areas of nonattainment within individual watersheds and determines their likely causes. One of the most powerful ways to display these types of information on multiple scales is to use a geographic information system (GIS). The case of phosphorus in southern Rhode Island's Tucker Pond illustrates how a GIS can help integrate concerns from the public, data from Clean Water Act monitoring, and information from the New ... |
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