Guidance for Developing Watershed Action Plans in Illinois

 

Published in June 2007, the CMAP report Guidance for Developing Watershed Action Plans in Illinois (4MB PDF) represents a thorough update to the previous version published by Illinois Environmental Protection Agency in 1998.  The new guide incorporates current U.S. Environmental Protection Agency guidelines for taking a watershed approach to addressing nonpoint-source pollution.  These guidelines can be used to develop a watershed action plan that makes planning participants and their recommendations eligible for funding under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act.

The Illinois Guide will be useful to anyone interested in starting a locally-led watershed planning initiative or anyone else interested in strengthening an existing plan.

To support the new Illinois Guide and all those who are interested in watershed planning, two workshops are offered this summer. These workshops aim to animate the Illinois Guide and otherwise provide useful information to both planning novices and more experienced practitioners alike. The workshop schedule is as follows:

Agenda
Attendees List
Presentations:
Loftus
Loftus - Map
Curtis
Werner
Wiedel
Cook
Price
Edstrom
Hammer
Doohaluk
Thursday, June 28
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
233 South Wacker Drive, Suite 800
Chicago, IL 60606

Agenda
Attendees List
Presentations:
Loftus
Boeckler
Nelson
Patchett
Edstrom
Eaton
Thursday, July 12
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
University of Illinois, Extension
2501 N. 8th Street
(Illinois State Fairgrounds)
Springfield, IL
 

Workshop participation is free and open to the general public. You may come for the whole day or just the parts that are of particular interest to you. We are currently developing agendas for both workshops and will post them when they are complete.

If you have questions regarding the Illinois Guide or the upcoming workshops, please contact Amy Talbot at info@cmap.illinois.gov or 312.866.8646.