Asset: Water - Surface Water
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Water Quality also collaborates with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on fish surveys, evaluating fish biodiversity and abundance.
The Environmental Protection Department also has a Nonpoint Source Program that has one full-time employee. The focus of this program...
Establish a wetland program to help protect and restore wetlands and riparian areas.
Increase stream meandering to decrease erosive floods.
Plant trees to shade water and reduce water temperatures.
Plant trees in areas upstream of infrastructure to help reduce the damage from flooding.
Develop a land management plan and water management plan with a focus on wells and reservoirs.
Stabilize the situation through natural solutions such as establishing more beavers and dams in the headwater streams of the mountains...
Find a way to catch and hold flood waters, for example, by building reservoirs.
Restore/create a wetland outside of Hays to divert water to when it floods.
Manage grazing to prevent degradation of streams and wetlands.
Restore impacted streams that used to flow and have fish and were for ceremonial purposes.
