Program Overview (pdf file)

Description - The goal for C-SAW is to transfer knowledge and skills to watershed groups or local sponsors thereby helping to build their capacity to plan and conduct watershed assessments, and conduct post-implementation monitoring. C-SAW can provide:

• Specialists who can help identify solutions and assist your group in the development of monitoring programs, restoration projects, and plans for protection.
  
  
• Training or conducting assessments and developing restoration projects and protection plans.

C-SAW can also provide watershed organizations with assistance in watershed assessments and science related to:

• Surface- and groundwater resources
• Sediment
• Ambient and event monitoring
• Biological and habitat assessment
• Microbiology
• Surface water and groundwater interactions
• Atmospheric deposition
• Agricultural and urban impact issues
• Lake monitoring
• Soils evaluations
• Abandoned mine discharge and treatment
• Wetlands
• Geographic information system derived data and spatial data analysis
• Quality assurance and quality control

In addition, C-SAW can point eligible organizations to assistance provided by other technical experts through Growing Greener.

C-SAW is not designed to conduct monitoring or assessments for watershed organizations. Rather, C-SAW hopes to help watershed organizations do a better job in their own monitoring and assessment.