Wenatchee River Wenatchee River Watershed Land Use Watershed Land Use

Mapping and Potential Mapping and Potential Non-Point Source Non-Point Source

Pollutant IdentificationPollutant Identification

Wenatchee Watershed Wenatchee Watershed Identification GroupIdentification Group

Andrew LeonAndrew Leon

Deena EwinsDeena Ewins

Cascadia Conservation Cascadia Conservation DistrictDistrict

Cascdia Conservation District’s mission is Cascdia Conservation District’s mission is to encourage wise stewardship and to encourage wise stewardship and conservation of all natural resources for conservation of all natural resources for current and future residents of Chelan current and future residents of Chelan County. County.

Cascadia asks, “What are the land uses Cascadia asks, “What are the land uses and potential sources of non-point and potential sources of non-point pollution in the Wenatchee River pollution in the Wenatchee River watershed?”watershed?”

Need To Know QuestionsNeed To Know Questions

What is Each Parcel in the Wenatchee What is Each Parcel in the Wenatchee River Watershed Used For?River Watershed Used For?

Which parcels are most likely to Which parcels are most likely to input pollution into the Wenatchee input pollution into the Wenatchee River?River?

What are the locations and types of What are the locations and types of farms?farms?

Data SourcesData Sources

Chelan CountyChelan County United States Department of United States Department of

Agriculture Agriculture Washington State Department of Washington State Department of

Agriculture Agriculture Pacific States Marine Fisheries Pacific States Marine Fisheries

CommissionCommission

What is Each Parcel in the What is Each Parcel in the Wenatchee River Watershed Used Wenatchee River Watershed Used

For?For?Central

Washington Watersheds

SelectWenatchee

RiverWatershed

WenatcheeRiver

Watershed

Land Parcels(With Land

Uses)

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Land Parcels inWatershed (With

Land Uses)

Which parcels are most likely to Which parcels are most likely to input pollution into the Wenatchee input pollution into the Wenatchee

River?River?Wenatchee River

Watershed

Rivers

Clip Rivers toWenatchee Watershed

Rivers in Watershed

BufferRivers

River Buffer

Find Intersection of Buffer and Agricultural

Parcels

Agricultural Parcels Most Likely to

Pollute

AgriculturalParcels

Select by Attribute To Find

AgriculturalLand Use

Land Parcelsin Watershed

(With Land Uses)

What are the locations and types What are the locations and types of farms?of farms?

Farm Types

WenatcheeRiver

Watershed

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Farm Types inThe WenatcheeRiver Watershed

Agricultural parcels within Agricultural parcels within 1,000 ft. of rivers and streams 1,000 ft. of rivers and streams

Agricultural parcels within 500 Agricultural parcels within 500 ft. of rivers and streamsft. of rivers and streams

ConclusionsConclusions

Agriculture exists mainly along the Agriculture exists mainly along the Wenatchee RiverWenatchee River

Agriculture contributes a great deal Agriculture contributes a great deal of non-point pollutionof non-point pollution

Pollutants from different types of Pollutants from different types of farms can flow into the Wenatchee farms can flow into the Wenatchee and other riversand other rivers

RecommendationsRecommendations

We were asked to get data on septic We were asked to get data on septic and irrigation systemsand irrigation systems

However we were unable to because However we were unable to because the data was not readily availablethe data was not readily available

Once this data is available, it will be Once this data is available, it will be useful for future investigations of useful for future investigations of non-point source pollution in the non-point source pollution in the regionregion