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Arkansas Watershed Planning Guide
Produced by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Environmental Preservation Division Water Division
Second Edition February 2006 First Edition September 2003
	Cover Page (pdf file) Acknowledgements (pdf file) Table of Contents (pdf file) Chapter 1 - Using the Watershed Approach to Manage Natural Resources (pdf file) Chapter 2 - Forming a Watershed Partnership (pdf file) Chapter 3 - Watershed Characteristics and Water Resource Quality (3.2 Mb) (pdf file) Chapter 4 - Determining the Cause and Source of Watershed Problems (pdf file) Chapter 5 - Setting Goals and Developing Solutions (pdf file) Chapter 6 - Implementing the Watershed Management Plan (pdf file) Chapter 7 - Resources for Watershed Groups (pdf file) Appendix (5.6 Mb) (pdf file)   Complete Guide (12.3 Mb) (pdf file)
A limited number of Arkansas Watershed Planning Guides have been printed. Electronic versions of the guide are also available on CD. Please contact Cyndi Porter at porterc_at_adeq.state.ar.us or (501) 682-0028 to request a copy. Printed Copies are Limited to Arkansas Residents Only.
Arkansas Watersheds
by Dr. Mike Daniels, Dr. Brian Haggard, Dr. Andrew Sharpley U of A Cooperative Extension Service Arkansas Watersheds (800 Kb) (pdf file)
Arkansas Water: Why Wait for the Crisis?
by Jeanne L. Jackson and Dr. Leslie E. Mack Published in 1982 by the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
	Chapter 1 - Introduction and Physical Facts (1.9 Mb) (pdf file) Chapter 2 - Water Uses (2.0 Mb) (pdf file) Chapter 3 - Problems (2.4 Mb) (pdf file) Chapter 4 - Alternatives and Conclusion (3.5 Mb) (pdf file) Complete Publication (9.8 Mb) (pdf file)
Electronically reproduced and made available with permission from the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation

EPA Watershed Publications
Handbook for Developing Watershed Plans to Restore and Protect Our Waters EPA released a document to help communities, watershed organizations, and local, state, tribal, and federal environmental agencies develop and implement watershed plans to meet water quality standards and protect water resources. This handbook is designed to help anyone undertaking a watershed planning effort, but should be particularly useful to persons working with impaired or threatened waters.
Protecting and Restoring America's Watersheds (pdf file)
Getting In Step: A Guide to Effective Outreach in Your Watershed (pdf file)
Getting In Step: Engaging and Involving Stakeholders in Your Watershed (pdf file)
For other publications and resources available FREE from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency please visit the National Service Center for Environmental Publications website.

Urban Subwatershed Restoration Manual (USRM)
The Series is now available from the Center for Watershed Protection!

FREE downloadable copies are available for some of the manuals! Check them out on the Center for Watershed Protection's website: http://www.cwp.org/USRM_verify.htm

A large number of communities are turning to urban watershed restoration to help repair stream habitat, reduce pollutant inputs, and improve the quality of the urban environment. In some cases, these restoration efforts are prompted by state and federal regulations such as TMDLs, municipal NPDES stormwater regulations, and source water protection. In other cases, restoration is driven by local concerns about water resource quality. Little information, however, is available to guide local governments and watershed organizations as they enter this relatively new and technically challenging arena.

Never fear, the Center for Watershed Protection is here! They have spent the better part of the last year developing the Urban Subwatershed Restoration Manual (USRM), a practitioner's guide to restoring urban watersheds. Presented in a series of 11 manuals, the USRM presents practical and useful information on the actual techniques of watershed restoration that can be conveniently accessed and used by planners, engineers, stream biologists and municipal officials. Each manual is profusely illustrated and presents detailed field methods, practice specifications, costs, applicability and tips on implementation. Together, the USRM manuals introduce an integrated framework for urban watershed restoration, outline effective techniques for assessing urban watersheds, and provide a comprehensive review of watershed restoration techniques.

While work on the USRM manuals continues to progress, they're delighted to announce that four of the manuals have been completed. Even better, thanks to a grant from the EPA Office of Water Management, you can download these manuals in .PDF format for FREE from the CWP website!

Manual 1: An Integrated Framework to Restore Small Urban Watersheds The first manual introduces the basic concepts and techniques of urban watershed restoration, and sets forth the overall framework we use to evaluate subwatershed restoration potential. The manual emphasizes how past subwatershed alterations must be understood in order to set realistic expectations for future restoration. Toward this end, the manual presents a simple subwatershed classification system to define expected stream impacts and restoration potential. Next, the manual defines seven broad groups of restoration practices, and describes where to look in the subwatershed to implement them. The manual concludes by presenting a condensed summary of a planning approach to craft effective subwatershed restoration plans.

Manual 4: Urban Stream Repair Practices
This stream repair manual concentrates on practices used to enhance the appearance, stability, structure, or function of urban streams. The manual offers guidance on three broad approaches to urban stream repair - stream cleanups, simple repairs, and more sophisticated comprehensive repair applications. The manual emphasizes the powerful and relentless forces at work in urban streams, which must always be carefully evaluated in design. The manual also presents guidance on how to set appropriate restoration goals for your stream, and how to choose the best combination of stream repair practices to meet them. It also outlines methods to assess stream repair potential at the subwatershed level, including basic stream reach analysis, more detailed project investigations, and priority screenings. Finally, the manual offers practical advice to help design, permit, construct and maintain stream repair practices in a series of more than 30 profile sheets.

Manual 8: Pollution Source Control Practices
Pollution source control practices reduce or prevent pollution from residential neighborhoods or storm water hotspots. Thus, the topic of the eighth manual is a wide range of stewardship and pollution prevention practices that can be employed in subwatersheds. The manual presents several methods to assess subwatershed pollution sources in order to develop and target education and/or enforcement efforts that can prevent or reduce polluting behaviors and operations. The manual outlines more than 100 different “carrot” and “stick” options that can be used for this purpose. Lastly, the manual presents profile sheets that describe 21 specific stewardship practices for residential neighborhoods, and 15 pollution prevention techniques for control of storm water hotspots.

Manual 10: The Unified Stream Assessment: A Users Manual The Unified Stream Assessment (USA) is a rapid technique to locate and evaluate problems and restoration opportunities within the urban stream corridor. The tenth manual is a users guide that describes how to perform the USA and interpret the data collected to determine the stream corridor restoration potential for your subwatershed.

Manual 11: The Unified Subwatershed and Site Reconnaissance: A Users Manual The last manual examines pollution sources and restoration potential within upland areas of urban subwatersheds. The manual provides detailed guidance on how to perform each of its four components the Neighborhood Source Assessment (NSA), Hotspot Source Investigation (HSI), Pervious Area Assessment (PAA) and the analysis of Streets and Storm Drains (SSD). Together, these rapid surveys help identify upland restoration projects and source control opportunities to consider when devising subwatershed restoration plans.

Each of these five manuals can be ordered in color hard copies from the Center for a nominal charge through their website: http://www.cwp.org/USRM_verify.htm. Expect the remaining USRM manuals to be completed throughout the year.

Courtesy of the CWP's 14th edition of the Runoff Rundown