How healthy is your watershed?Indicators and Performance Measures for

the North Bay

Kat Ridolfi, San Francisco Estuary InstituteLisa Micheli, Sonoma Ecology Center

Peter Vorster, Bay Institute

Napa WICCJune 25, 2009

Outline

• Background• Purpose• Previous indicators work • Scope of NBWA Indicators project• Indicator/performance measure selection and

organization• Draft indices • Expected applications• Next Steps

Background

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Past work to Build On

• SFEI’s Report on Monitoring Approaches (2007)

• The Bay Institute’s Scorecard (2003, 2005)

• Bay-Delta and other WAF projects (ongoing)

• Napa-Sonoma Water Supply Scorecard

Project Partners

• San Francisco Estuary Institute

• The Bay Institute

• Sonoma Ecology Center

• Marin County Public Works

• Napa County Planning

Project Schedule

Item # Item Date 1 Dataset Review October-November

2008 2 Technical Working Group Meeting #1 November 2008 3 Draft glossary submitted to NBWA December 2008 4 Technical Working Group Meeting #2 February 2009 5 Presentation to NBWA Board and

progress summary April 2009

6 Outreach to indicator end-users April-J uly 2009 7 NBWC Meeting #1 J une 2009 8 Draft Report to NBWA for comments September 2009 9 Final Report submitted to NBWA November 2009

Framework

• NBWA Categories– Water Supply– Water Quality– Habitat Enhancement– Recreation and Public Education– Flood Protection

Identifypotential

indicators

Choose indicators

Goals and Objectives

What do you strive for in the system?

Indicator Criteria

Previous Work

Criteria• Valid?• Understandable?• Available ?• Manageable?

Index

Indicators or Performance Measures

Metrics

Draft North Bay Indices

Habitat Enhancement

Water Supply

Recreation and Public Education

Flood Protection

Water Quality

Fish indexClimate Context

Recreational Support

Innovative and integrated stormwater and flood management

water quality standards

Bird index Streamflow Education PromotionWatershed runoff

Pollutant reduction

Riparian Habitat Storage

Floodplain protection

Invertebrate index

Habitat Restoration Water use

Water Supply

Climate context actual ET, volume

Streamflow Baseflow, 7-day minimum flow

StorageGroundwater table elevations at monitoring stations

Storage Surface storage, volume

Water Use Water independence, % imports

Water use Residential per capita water use

Water use Water use savings, volume

Water Quality

water quality standards

Physical water quality, including temp, DO, TSS

Invertebrate index

Stream BMIs

Pollutant reduction

TMDL implementation, measured as quantity of pollutant load reduction

Habitat EnhancementIndex Indicator

Fish index Salmonid Population, smolt production

Bird index Christmas Bird Counts

Riparian Habitat CRAM (SFEI method)

Habitat Restoration Uplands, area or % target

Habitat Restoration Baylands, area or % target

Habitat Restoration Freshwater Wetlands, area or % target

Habitat Restoration Stream/Riparian, length or % target

Habitat Restoration Fish Passage, length or % target

Recreation and Public EducationIndex Indicator

Education Promotion

online outreach, measured as quantity of website hits

Education Promotion

community involvement in watershed mgmt. & restoration, # of people

Recreational Recreational Experience

Floodplain ProtectionIndex Indicator

Innovative and integrated stormwater and flood management

Innovative and integrated stormwater and flood management implementation, measured as volume of water managed via innovative means

Watershed runoff Impervious area, % impervious

Floodplain protection

Floodplain protection, area of FEMA floodplain zoned for compatible uses

SCORECARD

Index

Indicators or Performance Measures

Metrics

Index

Indicators or Performance Measures

Metrics

Index

Indicators orPerformance Measures

Metrics

North Bay Applications

• Watershed Plans

• Stormwater Programs

• Implementation projects in a watershed(e.g. bank stabilization, flood control, vegetation)

• Regional planning efforts

Next StepsTask Date

Continuing outreach and accepting comments

June-July

North Bay Watershed Council meeting workshp

September?

Draft Report September 2009

Final Report November 2009

Questions?

Contact Information

Kat Ridolfi

SFEI

kat@sfei.org

(510) 746-7392