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CLIPA White Paper

Monitoring and Management

Regardless of which approach is taken, we have taken a strong position that any plan adopted and funded by the Legislature must include ongoing data collection, scientific study, performance monitoring, and reporting. What the CLAMP study brought to light by its limitations is the need for a more comprehensive, watershed-wide management planning and oversight group.
 
CLIPA recommends the State Legislature begin discussions around either a “coordinating board” or perhaps a Public Facilities Deschutes/Capitol Lake Management District to oversee this monitoring and reporting, and ensure a responsive approach is implemented 6.
 
Our recommendations include:
  1. Establishing a long-term management program that incorporates the protection and enhancement of an environmental and community treasure – the entire Deschutes Watershed – under the direction of a public/private “coordinating board.” The board would include representation of the impacted groups and governmental agencies and, under the authority of the State Legislature, would operate with GA functioning as the coordinating board’s technical staff.
  2. We recommend that a Deschutes Watershed Adaptive Management Plan be developed and implemented (with Legislative review) under the guidance of this newly established “coordinating board.” This board would begin the process of developing a rich and complementary public/private partnership, including a plan for public/private cost sharing. For example, this “coordinating board” could facilitate partnering with the Natural Resource Conservation Service and Washington Department of Transportation among others to develop sediment management plans.
  3. Our recommendations consider the 2011-2015 predesign study and dredging program of the Capitol Lake North basin and lower Budd Inlet/boat basin as an interim step, while the ten and twenty-year management program update is further documented in an update to the 2013 Adaptive Management Plan that will define how much of the Middle and South basins are dredged or converted to a freshwater wetland, using dredge spoils to enhance a recreation and education area.
  4. The updated plan will then be integrated into the more comprehensive sediment management program for the entire Capitol Lake and related Deschutes Watershed Adaptive Management Plan for implementation by the new “coordinating board.”
 
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6 At the time of this White Paper, we had not yet fully researched the options of a “district” designation and intend to do so. This may or may not be a beneficial designation; some other approach may be more viable and effective. We also had not fully researched various models and structures for a “coordinating board.” For example, the Nisqually River watershed plan development and management process may be a useful model for these purposes, to ensure no new level of government, but to establish a new coordinating entity (e.g., the Nisqually River Council). This White Paper is intended as a starting point for such conversations.
 
Complete White Paper PDF
Capitol Lake Improvement & Protection Association ( C.L.I.P.A. )
mail to:  120 State Ave NE  #1006  Olympia, Wa.  98501-8212
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