EPA Watershed Planning Tool Available

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released the Watershed Plan Builder, an interactive, Web-based tool designed to help planners, stakeholders, and communities develop watershed management plans. The tool creates an outline of a watershed plan tailored to a specific project based on data entered by the user. This outline walks the user through several steps in the watershed planning process, including setting goals, designing a program, implementing a plan, and gathering feedback. EPA is accepting feedback on the tool; comments should be sent to owow-wpb@epa.gov by September 30, 2007. The tool is online at www.epa.gov/owow/ watershedplanning/.