Watershed Application of the Sustainable Installations Regional Resource Assessment Tool

摘要

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recognizes the need for a system- wide approach to ecosystem management in its efforts to provide environmental sustainability in the stewardship of the Nation's water resources. As the Corps increased activities in sustainable watershed and water resources management will require, there will be expanded use of new and existing tools. The System-Wide Water Resources Program (SWWRP) is designed to build and deliver these tools for effective system-wide applications. One major product of this program will be a Web-based decision support framework that will allow access to information, databases, numerical models, index models, habitat models, and socio-economic models. Characterization of the Nation's watersheds using an existing approach that has been applied to military installations will leverage existing research for a new application. This work characterized the nation's watersheds using a sub-set of indicators from Sustainable Installations Regional Resource Assessment (SIRRA), and developed a methodology to identify watersheds with potential sustainment problems, and to rank the watersheds by their relative vulnerability to such problems.