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Watershed Planning Services

Mission

The mission of Watershed Planning Services is to assist decision-makers in identifying and evaluating the impacts of their decisions at the watershed level.

Staff List

What we do

Our main area of responsibility are Watershed Projects (including PL-566).  We provide assistance to:

  • Clarify local objectives
  • Inventory and assess resources
  • Analyze resource problems
  • Identify opportunities to prevent resource problems
  • Formulate alternatives to solve or prevent resource problems
  • Evaluate alternatives
  • Recommend specific actions
  • Review and summarize studies and reports
  • Develop procedures/methods (e.g. planning procedures)
  • Plan projects (including planning scope, quality, cost, schedule, staff, risk, procurement, and contracting)
  • Monitor results

PL83-566 and PL78-534 Program Administration

  • Deliver PL83-566 & PL78-534 national programs
  • Manage WF-06, WF-03 and WF-08 work products
  • Manage PL83-566 program backlog
  • Rehabilitate WF-08 structures
  • Develop national reports and databases
  • Implement NEPA

Other Natural Resource Activities

  • California Association of Resource Conservation Districts
  • Drinking Water Source Assessment Program
  • Field Office Technical Guide
  • Volunteer Monitoring Technical Advisory Committee
  • Hydrologic assistance
  • Miscellaneous assistance
  • Other Natural Resource Activities

How we do it

  • Interagency Partnerships

  • Technology Development and Transfer

Our products and services

Our planning products are primarily information and analyses designed to help achieve watershed management objectives. We work with local service centers, partners and other private land owners, providing natural resources to help them achieve locally led watershed management objectives, and in some cases obtain financial resources for implementation.

Section Program Responsibilities

  • PL-566/534 Small Watershed Program

  • CalWater statewide watershed delineation

  • Areawide planning for other NRCS programs and partnerships.

We work with local field offices, service centers and other clients, providing natural resources information and analysis products designed to help achieve locally led watershed management objectives. This work sometimes leads to the commitment of financial resources for project implementation.

Watershed Planning Services Staff
Name Title Phone Number Email Address
Luana Kiger Special Assistant to State Conservationist
Director, Watershed Planning Services		 (530) 792-5661 Luana.Kiger@ca.usda.gov
Elizabeth Hilkert Agricultural Engineer (SCEP) (530) 792-5664 Liz.Hilkert@ca.usda.gov
Steve Hill Natural Resource Manager (530) 792-5642 Steve.Hill@ca.usda.gov
Greg Norris Hydraulic Engineer (530) 792-5651 Greg.Norris@ca.usda.gov
Tom Share Civil Engineering Technician (530) 792-5671 Tom.Share@ca.usda.gov

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