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Grand Valley State University

City of Portland

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Lower Grand River Watershed Management Plan, Fishbeck, Thompson, Car & Huber, Inc. Sep 2004

Lower Grand River Watershed Management Plan, Fishbeck, Thompson, Car & Huber, Inc.

Watershed Management Plans and Reports

A Watershed Management Plan (WMP) considers many aspects of water usage and functions, and coordinates them into a comprehensive plan for managing the activities that govern how our natural resources are utilized or viewed. A WMP is developed to provide direction and prioritize how resources are used for the management, protection, or restoration of a watershed. A watershed approach is ideal for managing water resources since they cross jurisdictions and political boundaries. Often this fluid nature of water is overlooked or taken for granted. Water flows over the ground and picks up pollutants before reaching a lake, stream, wetland, or …