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You are to use your property, or your parents property, or your kids property, or another property you want to use and evaluate how the land is being used currently, how much runoff occurs (which depends upon impervious surfaces, rainfall, and soil type), and what you can do to improve the situation. You are to research all the items mentioned in the syllabus for this assessment and use the eight tools of watershed protection and management to determine how to improve the property. I hope this helps explain what is expected.

Provide an educational power point presentation on how you would use the eight tools of watershed protection and management we discussed in class on your own property or that of an organization you belong to. The organization can be a religious, or any public or private organization. You should provide background on the land for your proposed management, and analysis of the watershed issues, including:

Question (1) Land area, and land use, noting the approximate area that is covered with impervious surfaces, grass, and various landscaping options. (Pictures are helpful for this requirement.) You can use google earth or some other aerial photograph provider to get an aerial image of your property and you can estimate the amount of impervious surfaces from this.

Question (2) Type of soil (explain how you determined this). You can go to the US soil survey to find the soil type in your area.

Question (3) Typical rainfall amounts and volume of stormwater runoff generated by that rainfall (explain how you determined this). You can go to NOAA or some other weather service and find the amount of rainfall for your area or your State.

Question (4) Typical stormwater runoff pattern. (A picture or drawing of this is very helpful!)

Question (5) Calculation of how much water would runoff from that land given its land use and typical rainfall amount. You can use the equations we learned from this class.

Question (6) How you plan to use the tools for watershed protection to manage that site, resulting in effective watershed management, ecologically, socially, and financially.