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Pacific Northwest: Value of Stream Health

Dates

Start Date
2015
End Date
2018

Summary

This pilot leverages National Water Quality Assessment (NAWQA) stream health data collected in Oregon’s Willamette River Valley and Washington’s Puget Sound to estimate the economic value of water quality in this region of the Pacific Northwest. The USGS NAWQA Program is currently conducting a regional assessment of water-quality, habitat stressors, and biological communities (including salmon) in the Willamette River Valley and Puget Sound, with the overall goal of evaluating the relative importance of factors affecting stream health throughout the region. Sampling will take place across more than eighty stream sites in the region to analyze gradients of human disturbance, characterize chemical stressors, and characterize the [...]

Contacts

Co-Investigator :
Brian R Quay
(other) :
Daren M Carlisle, Christopher C Huber, James R Meldrum

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Quartzville Creek Wild and Scenic River (Bob Wick, BLM).jpg
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Project Extension

parts
typeFY15 Accomplishments
valueDesigned study plan
typeFY15 Accomplishments
valueIdentified data needs and gaps
typeFY15 Accomplishments
valueEvaluated the use of existing economic resources to value salmon
projectStatusCompleted

Project Extension

parts
typeFY16 Accomplishments & Deliverables
valueCollected housing sales data in both the Pacific Northwest study region and the Southeast proof of concept study region
typeFY16 Accomplishments & Deliverables
valueGathered GIS data to control for environmental attributes in econometric models
projectStatusCompleted

Project Extension

parts
typeFY17 Objectives
valueEstimate hedonic property premium models for both the proof of concept Southeast region and Pacific Northwest study region
typeFY17 Objectives
valueMeet in-person with NAWQA partners to inform management questions and objectives in the study regions
typeFY17 Objectives
valueWork with NAWQA scientists and leadership to identify areas of opportunity in how systematic collection of valuation data can be accomplished and how it might be used
projectStatusProposed

Project Extension

parts
typeFY17 Expected Deliverables
valueConstruct bio-economic model leveraging NAWQA fish population data with economic information on salmon; draft manuscript of results
typeFY17 Expected Deliverables
valueDraft manuscript for hedonic property premium models for both the proof of concept Mid-west region and Pacific Northwest study region
typeFY17 Expected Deliverables
valueDevelop predictive model on the effects of water quality on economic values of ecosystem services
projectStatusProposed

Quartzville Creek Wild and Scenic River (Bob Wick, BLM)
Quartzville Creek Wild and Scenic River (Bob Wick, BLM)

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