Stream Corridor Management Plans

Plan Overview

• Goals
• Enhance stream corridor stewardship on local level
• Create future visions for local streamside communities
• Objectives
• Identify information gaps pertinent to future planning efforts
• Develop research strategy for obtaining needed data
• Assess trends impacting water quality and quantity
• Provide guidance to communities/stakeholders on management practices that are environmentally, socially and economically sustainable
• Provide assistance to them in adoption of these practices
• Provide a list of actions that can be implemented to protect and improve the watershed
• Local ownership desired to ensure effective research and implementation

Sponsorship

• Coordinated by Delaware County SWCD in partnership with Delaware County Planning Department
• Funding and support provided by NYC DEP Stream Management Program

What a Plan is

• What a Plan is
• Voluntary program
• Locally developed plan that defines stream stewardship for an entire community
• Means of creating a road map to coordinate activities of:
• Government
• Private sector
• Individuals
As they live and work near streams
• Identification of problems and issues to address:
  • Stream stability
  • Property protection
  • Flooding
  • Aesthetic, recreation and ecology
• Opportunity for government and local groups to work together
• Identification of funding sources for locally sponsored projects
• What a Plan is not
• Construction program to:
• Fix all erosion
• Remove all stream gravel
• Flood prevention program
• Sole source of implementation funding
• Regulatory program