Implementation

Implementing a watershed plan often involves a whole range of residents, landowners, businesses, government agencies and institutions, conservation groups and environmental organizations and volunteers.

Each watershed is different, and areas within a watershed vary, from soil types and water bodies to topography, land use and even climate. Strategies and practices that work to improve water quality in one watershed may not be effective in another. This is even true from one location within the watershed to another, field to field, farm to farm. 

ISA EPS works with partners from the public and private sectors to help identify the suite of solutions most suited for implementation in a given watershed. This might include seeking out and demonstrating innovative new practices, such as denitrifying bioreactors, to address specific resource concerns. Part of sound implementation is also designing and implementing ways to evaluate the solutions employed to measure their effectiveness over time. 

This implementation may be costly. ISA EPS and our collaborators bring what resources we can to priority watersheds. This may include grants we've received from private foundations, corporate donations, or state and federal agencies. We also may be able to provide technical assistance to watershed groups seeking to apply for their own funding.