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Puget Sound Watershed Characterization and Duvall's Watershed Plan

This webinar will explain what the Puget Sound Characterization Project is, how its watershed planning tools work and how they can be applied by users to assist in the management of watershed resources. The characterizations planning tools are useful to planners engaged in the update of comprehensive plans, development of subarea plans and stormwater retrofit plans. Stephen Stanley, one of the original architects of the Characterization tools with Susan Grigsby, will address the tools development, its application and what updates are planned for Characterization tools.

Aaron Booy will address the Puget Sound Watershed Characterization Tools application in Duvall. Specifically, Aaron will present Duvall's Watershed Plan, which relied on the Puget Sound Watershed Characterization results and framework across 17 subbasins. The presentation will touch on Duvalls objectives, assessment approach, watershed management framework, and ongoing implementation efforts (including the Citys current Surface and Stormwater Planning and Retrofit Predesign project).

Between 2013 and 2015, the City of Duvall used EPA's National Estuary Program grant funding to develop and adopt a Watershed Plan to assess existing subbasin conditions across the City, and to support effective comprehensive planning and development standards to achieve community goals for surface water, critical areas, and open space management.