Track: Water Resources
Identifying the Need To Protect Southeast Michigan's Headwaters - How GIS Can Be One of Many Tools Utilized in Outreach Education Efforts
Steve PerryAmy Hamann
Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) and the Areawide Water Quality Board established a Headwaters Task Force to ensure the long-term coordination and implementation of headwaters protection efforts in southeast Michigan. Educating local government officials about headwaters protection is an essential part of watershed protection and the sustainability of southeast Michigan. The Headwaters Task Force will assist local communities in protecting headwaters by providing tools and data to support local efforts. One tool that will be utilized is identifying current and future imperviousness of specific communities and subwatersheds and drawing the comparison between increasing imperviousness and increasing degradation of water quality. This process will use both ArcInfo and ArcView GIS to map imperviousness by subwatershed using established impervious percentages and regional land use data developed by SEMCOG.
Steve Perry
Southeast Michigan Council of Governments
660 Plaza Drive
Detroit, MI 48226
USA
Telephone: (313) 961-4266 ext.304
Fax: (313) 961-3869
E-mail: perry@semcog.org