Program Area: Water Quality Protection and Improvement, Ocean Acidification Address negative human and animal impacts to water quality as well as runoff/storm water from all sources; prioritizing lands impacting water bodies on EPA’s 303(d) list in Skagit County. By 2019, water quality in Samish Bay will have been improved sufficiently to allow the Department of Health to upgrade from conditional use to approved status. By 2017, the SCD will have developed and implemented a comprehensive water quality monitoring program. By 2019, monitoring in priority waterbodies will indicate improvement trends. By 2018, complete data analysis and initiate program development on ocean acidification issues. Natural Resource Measurable Result Objective: An additional 10% decrease in fecal coliform levels monitored for 2014 in the Samish basin Programmatic Measurable Result Objective: Sixteen conservation prioritizing regulatory referrals and other landowners in the Samish and Padilla Bay/Bayview Basins developed and implemented Funding Sources: Skagit County, Washington Conservation Commission, City Interlocal Agreements, Puget Sound Partnership, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Program Area: Water Quality Protection and Improvement, Ocean Acidification Address negative human and animal impacts to water quality as well as runoff/storm water from all sources; prioritizing lands impacting water bodies on EPA’s 303(d) list in Skagit County. By 2019, water quality in Samish Bay will have been improved sufficiently to allow the Department of Health to upgrade from conditional use to approved status. By 2017, the SCD will have developed and implemented a comprehensive water quality monitoring program. By 2019, monitoring in priority waterbodies will indicate improvement trends. By 2018, complete data analysis and initiate program development on ocean acidification issues. Natural Resource Measurable Result Objective: An additional 10% decrease in fecal coliform levels monitored for 2014 in the Samish basin Programmatic Measurable Result Objective: Sixteen conservation prioritizing regulatory referrals and other landowners in the Samish and Padilla Bay/Bayview Basins developed and implemented Funding Sources: Skagit County, Washington Conservation Commission, City Interlocal Agreements, Puget Sound Partnership, Natural Resources Conservation Service
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