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Liquid Assets 2000: Watershed Partnerships:
Frameworks for Success
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Federal, state, and local agencies are uniting with locally led partnerships
and using technical tools like the TMDL cleanup program to address the nation's
remaining challenges. Watershed restoration programs nationwide have
demonstrated that partnerships promoting voluntary stewardship can protect
America's water resources andrestore even
badly degraded conditions by using innovation, creative problem solving and
cooperative action.
Watershed partnerships are active in every state, attacking pollution
problems with newly energized initiatives to clean up America's waters and
restore wildlife habitat. Voluntary stewardship programs help channel resources
and time toward constructive restoration projects.
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Watershed Partnerships Help Restore Shellfish Beds
Efforts of the multi-partner Puget Sound Water
Quality Action Team, one of the 28 National Estuary Programs, have restored
more than 10,000 acres of commercial shellfish beds despite significant
population growth and development. The public-private efforts made by another
National Estuary Program, the Sarasota Bay Project, have resulted in a 20
percent increase in seagrass habitat in Sarasota Bay since 1988, as well as the
return of the bay scallop to the northern Bay.
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Lititz Run Watershed Restoration
The Lititz Run Watershed Alliance, composed of 15 to 20 community residents, has initiated more than 15 individual projects to
restore habitat, create wetlands, plant forest buffers, and reduce polluted
runoff from farms and urban areas. Faculty and students from the local high
school were thrilled at one tangible result of their actions--the sighting of a
black crowned night heron at a wetland constructed at the regional water
quality facility.
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