Puget Sound – Watershed Protection and Restoration -Lead Organization Overview

Urbanization and Forest Changes 1995 – 2002

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Watershed Protection Lead Organization

• Ecology with Commerce State co-leads

• Builds on ongoing Watershed Characterization to inform protection and restoration priorities

• Integrates Stormwater into watershed scale management approaches

• Addresses Land Use, Working Lands, and restoration/protection of priority watershed systems

Uses Watershed Protection Framework

Prescribe Solutions

Take Action

Monitor Results

Adaptive Management

Characterize Watersheds

Thurston County

Squaxin Island Tribe

King Co. Reg Effectiveness

King Co. Snoqualmie

King Co. QMH

Whatcom Co. Birch Bay Clallam County

PSGOG Skagit Alternative

Futures

Kitsap County Alternative Futures Kitsap County PIC Program

Kitsap County Shoreline

Watershed Characterization Results – Prioritizing Water Flow Processes

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jSeattle

Mt. Vernon

Bellingham

Tacoma

WRIA 11 Characterization Results – Restoration & Protection Categories for Sediment

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TMDL for dissolved oxygen & fecal coliform

FY '10 & '11 Funding Summary

• 30 projects/activities were funded totaling $8,867,560

• 7 Directed awards totaled: $2,398,858 (27%)

• 23 Competitive awards totaled: $6,468,702 (73%)

Watershed LO Funding Emphasis in FY’10 & ’11

• (3) Channel migration zone and floodplain restoration and planning projects ($925,000)

• (8) Market-based incentive programs for enhanced environmental protection including TDR’s and payments for ecosystem services ($1,836,482)

• (4) Forest Land and riparian zone protection and restoration projects ($570,000)

• (5) Growth management and critical areas update planning projects ($1,022,913)

• (8) Stormwater management and retrofit plans ($2,016,107)

FY ‘10 & ’11 Investments

Watershed Characterization

9%

Stormwater Management

23%

Watershed Protection/Rest

oration Strategies

35%

Improve Land Use and Protect Rural

Lands 26%

Program Management

8%

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Watershed LO Funding Emphasis

for FY ‘12 • Grants to develop watershed-based protection

planning and regulatory tools (via RFP)

• Watershed Characterization Technical Assistance Team (WCTAT) Support to Local Governments and Other Entities

• Improve Land Use and Protect Rural Working Lands

• Help Implement Watershed Protection & Restoration Strategies – floodplain and riparian area emphasis

• Improve Stormwater Management

FY ‘12 Investments

Watershed Characterization

9%

Stormwater Management

37% Watershed

Protection/Restoration

Strategies 35%

Improve Land Use and Protect

Rural Lands 10%

Program Management

9%

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Funding Projection for FY’12

• Total funding available is ~$5.4 million (which includes the $1.8 million for stormwater retrofit assessment).

• Of the $5.4 m, $3.3m (60%) is likely to be competitively awarded and $2.1 million (40%) directed.

• Across the first 3 funding years $14.267 m total - $9.76 m (~70%) of funds will have been competitively awarded and $4.5m (~30%) will have been directed.