Executive Summary

*Organization of the Watershed Management Plan

*Summary of Major Findings and Recommendations

*Existing Practices

*Baseline Conditions

*Watershed Management Recommendations

*Pollution prevention and watershed education

*Implementation Plan

*Funding

*Conclusion

1 Introduction

1.1 Location and Challenges facing the Watershed

1.2 Government requirements

1.3 OCWC Role

1.3.1 Establish Objectives

1.3.2 Develop Watershed Management Plan

1.3.3 Select Management Alternatives

1.3.4 Assemble an Action Plan

1.4 Related Organizations

1.5 Local Municipalities Role(s)

1.6 Components of the Watershed Management Plan

1.7 Scale and Scope of the Watershed Management Plan

2 The Watershed Management Plan

2.1 Watershed Management responsibility
2.2 Existing conditions: water resources and runoff management practices

2.2.1 Sources of storm water runoff and pollution

2.2.2 Best management practices: storm water, retrofits, and maintenance

2.2.3 Storm water infrastructure

2.2.4 Stream and buffer management, restoration, and monitoring

2.2.5 Pollution prevention and watershed education

2.3 Baseline watershed conditions

2.3.1 Oatka Creek and tributaries

2.3.2 Land use

2.4 Future land use changes

2.4.1 Zoning, Development, and General Land Use Plan

2.4.2 "Build-out" estimates and future impervious cover

2.5 Watershed management recommendations

2.5.1 Sources of storm water runoff and dry weather pollution

2.5.2 Storm water best management practices, retrofits and maintenance

2.5.3 Storm water infrastructure

2.5.4 Oatka Creek and buffer management, restoration, and monitoring

2.5.5 Pollution prevention and watershed education

2.6 Watershed Tracking System
2.7 Implementation and Evaluation Plan

2.7.1 Key Recommendations

2.7.2 Resource Implications for Proposed Implementation Plan

2.7.3 Funding

2.7.4 Conclusions

3 References

3.1 The Oatka Creek Watershed Committee: A Historical Overview, March 2002, compiled by Dr. Tim Tatakis

3.2 The Geochemistry of Oatka Creek, New York State, December 2001, compiled by Carolyn B. Dowling, Magdalyn J. Renz, Andrew G. Hunt, and Robert J. Poreda

3.3 The Oatka Creek Watershed State of the Basin Report, December 2002, prepared by Timothy A. Tatakis, Ph. D.

3.4 Oatka Creek Watershed Committee Outreach Program: A Report on Phase I, February 2002, prepared by Timothy A. Tatakis

Tables

1 List of Collaborating Organizations
2 List of Counties signing Intermunicipal Agreements
3 List of Towns and Villages signing Call for Cooperation
4 List of representatives to OCWC from participating Towns and Villages

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