A Watershed Approach to Improve Water Quality: Case Study of Clean Water Services’ Tualatin River Program1 |
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| Authors: | Bobby Cochran Charles Logue |
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| Institution: | 1. Respectively, Analyst (Cochran), Watershed Management Department, Clean Water Services, 2550 SW Hillsboro Hwy., Hillsboro, Oregon 97123;2. Director (Logue), Regulatory Affairs Department, Clean Water Services, Hillsboro, Oregon [Logue is currently the Director of Technical Services, Renewable Water Resources, Greenville, South Carolina 29607] |
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| Abstract: | Cochran, Bobby and Charles Logue, 2011. A Watershed Approach to Improve Water Quality: Case Study of Clean Water Services’ Tualatin River Program. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 47(1):29‐38. DOI: 10.1111/j.1752‐1688.2010.00491.x Abstract: Over the last five years, Clean Water Services developed and implemented a program to offset thermal load discharged from its wastewater facilities to the Tualatin River by planting trees to shade streams and augmenting summertime instream flows. The program has overcome challenges facing many of the nation’s water quality trading programs to not only gain consensus on the frameworks needed to authorize trading, but also provide a broad range of ecosystem services. This paper compares the Tualatin case study with some of the commonly cited factors of successful trading programs. |
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| Keywords: | ecosystem services water quality trading temperature watershed‐based permitting watershed management water policy |
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