How healthy is your watershed?
Indicators and Performance Measures for
the North Bay
Kat Ridolfi, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Lisa Micheli, Sonoma Ecology Center
Peter Vorster, Bay Institute
Napa WICC
June 25, 2009
Outline
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Background
Purpose
Previous indicators work
Scope of NBWA Indicators project
Indicator/performance measure selection and
organization
Draft indices
Expected applications
Next Steps
Background
Indicators v. Performance
Measures
Projects Implemented
20
15
10
5
0
Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4
Watershed health (% of target)
100
80
60
40
20
Time
Past work to Build On
• SFEI’s Report on Monitoring Approaches
(2007)
• The Bay Institute’s Scorecard (2003,
2005)
• Bay-Delta and other WAF projects
(ongoing)
• Napa-Sonoma Water Supply Scorecard
Project Partners
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San Francisco Estuary Institute
The Bay Institute
Sonoma Ecology Center
Marin County Public Works
Napa County Planning
Project Schedule
Item #
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4
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Item
Dataset Review
Technical Working Group Meeting #1
Draft glossary submitted to NBWA
Technical Working Group Meeting #2
Presentation to NBWA Board and
progress summary
Outreach to indicator end-users
NBWC Meeting #1
Draft Report to NBWA for comments
Final Report submitted to NBWA
Date
October-November
2008
November 2008
December 2008
February 2009
April 2009
April-July 2009
June 2009
September 2009
November 2009
Framework
• NBWA Categories
– Water Supply
– Water Quality
– Habitat Enhancement
– Recreation and Public Education
– Flood Protection
Goals and
Objectives
What do you strive for in
the system?
Previous
Work
Identify
potential
indicators
Indicator
Choose
indicators
Criteria
Criteria
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Valid?
Understandable?
Available ?
Manageable?
Index
Indicators or
Performance Measures
Metrics
Draft
North Bay Indices
Habitat
Enhancement
Water
Supply
Recreation
and Public
Education
Fish index
Climate
Context
Recreational Support
Bird index
Streamflow
Education Promotion
Riparian Habitat
Habitat Restoration
Storage
Water use
Flood
Protection
Innovative and
integrated
stormwater and
flood
management
Watershed
runoff
Floodplain
protection
Water
Quality
water quality
standards
Pollutant
reduction
Invertebrate
index
Water Supply
Climate context
actual ET, volume
Streamflow
Baseflow, 7-day minimum flow
Storage
Groundwater table elevations at
monitoring stations
Storage
Surface storage, volume
Water Use
Water independence, % imports
Water use
Residential per capita water use
Water use
Water use savings, volume
Water Quality
water quality
standards
Physical water
quality, including
temp, DO, TSS
Invertebrate
index
Stream BMIs
Pollutant
reduction
TMDL
implementation,
measured as
quantity of
pollutant load
reduction
Habitat Enhancement
Index
Indicator
Fish index
Salmonid Population, smolt production
Bird index
Christmas Bird Counts
Riparian Habitat
CRAM (SFEI method)
Habitat Restoration
Uplands, area or % target
Habitat Restoration
Baylands, area or % target
Habitat Restoration
Freshwater Wetlands, area or % target
Habitat Restoration
Stream/Riparian, length or % target
Habitat Restoration
Fish Passage, length or % target
Recreation and Public Education
Index
Education
Promotion
Education
Promotion
Recreational
Indicator
online outreach, measured as
quantity of website hits
community involvement in
watershed mgmt. &
restoration, # of people
Recreational Experience
Floodplain Protection
Index
Indicator
Innovative and integrated
Innovative and
stormwater and flood
integrated
management implementation,
stormwater and
measured as volume of water
flood management
managed via innovative means
Watershed runoff
Impervious area, % impervious
Floodplain
protection
Floodplain protection, area of
FEMA floodplain zoned for
compatible uses
Index
Index
Index
Indicators or
Performance Measures
Indicators or
Performance Measures
Indicators or
Performance Measures
Metrics
Metrics
Metrics
SCORECARD
North Bay Applications
• Watershed Plans
• Stormwater Programs
• Implementation projects in a
watershed(e.g. bank stabilization, flood
control, vegetation)
• Regional planning efforts
Next Steps
Task
Date
Continuing outreach and
accepting comments
North Bay Watershed
Council meeting workshp
Draft Report
June-July
Final Report
November 2009
September?
September 2009
Questions?
Contact Information
Kat Ridolfi
SFEI
kat@sfei.org
(510) 746-7392