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Watershed Central has been designed to assist users to develop and implement effective watershed management programs. The site includes guidance, tools, case studies, and data sets to help you share information, analyze data, and identify opportunities to initiate or strengthen your watershed efforts.

Watershed Central's stakeholders and data providers include:

Local watershed management groups
Regulated entities subject to EPA's various clean water act provisions
EPA Headquarters and the Office of Water
EPA regional water and water management offices
Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service on issues related to electronic access to data submitted
States
Tribes
Public

Watershed Central includes a feature called a wiki, which is web site that allows the user to submit and edit content so that the information is constantly updated by the watershed community (just like Wikipedia). The wiki includes case studies, information on watershed organizations and various watershed management tools.

Please submit content (case studies, watershed management plans, best management practices, tools, lessons learned, and success stories) via email: watershedcentral@epa.gov.

Also please join our wiki to see what others have contributed and submit content that way yourself: WATERSHED CENTRAL WIKI.

Submitted content will be reviewed every two weeks and key items will be published to the public-facing Watershed Central website on a regular basis.

The wiki contains the following information:

Tools & Models! For every step in the watershed management process
Partners! Articles on other watershed organizations & their lessons learned
Maps! A map view into watershed activities & experts around the country
Spatial Data! Land use, impaired streams, water quality monitoring station locations and information, permitted facility locations, watershed boundaries, and much more
Events Calendar for workshops and training around the country
Information resources on regulations, guidance, funding sources

Info on what's coming soon (rating functionality on website, RSS feeds, etc.)

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