合作伙伴强调詹姆斯河水质成就

New StoryMap 和 Tracking System Shows 3 Years of Progress

安纳波利斯，马里兰州——今天 弗吉尼亚环境基金会 (三角), 十大赌博正规老平台 和 下议院 发布了一个 一种名为“StoryMap”的新型视觉图形计算机平台” highlighting achievements in improving water quality of the James River in Virginia made possible by the Endowment’s grant program, the James River 水的质量 Improvement Program (JRWQIP), 从2018年开始. The nearly 350-mile-long James River is among the longest rivers in the Chesapeake Bay region flowing from the Appalachian Mountains to the Bay.

JRWQIP由一个15美元的基金资助.595 million grant program designed to accelerate 和 advance water quality improvements for the James River. Funding for the program was made possible by the mitigation package negotiated by the Commonwealth of Virginia that resulted from the permitting of the Surry-Skiffes electrical power line river crossing near Jamestown.

In 2018, 来支持VEE的拨款计划, the 十大赌博正规老平台’s 环保创新中心 developed a “Restoration Planner,” a web-based application to support planning 和 evaluation of restoration projects 和 to support VEE’s desire to make the biggest impact possible with its grant funding.

Produced by the 十大赌博正规老平台’s 环保创新中心, the new StoryMap highlights some of the achievements made by the grantees since 2018, 包括新的河岸缓冲带, 减少农业污染的做法, 生活的海岸线, 河道修复工程 和 investments in the Jamestown region.

VEE’s JRWQIP grantees track details 和 impacts of their work using an online platform called FieldDoc，它是由 下议院 管理和可视化进度.

“We are very pleased to showcase the improvements made thus far to the James River by our 13 grantees,VEE的执行董事Joseph Maroon说. ”在一起, 通过努力，如河边缓冲种植, 河道修复工程, 生活的海岸线, septic system upgrades 和 animal waste storage the grantees have reduced nitrogen pollution to the River by 319,每年558英镑, 磷比26,640 pounds per year 和 overall suspended sediment by over 7 million pounds. We hope this new StoryMap will help interested persons 和 organizations envision the totality of efforts while inspiring other partnerships 和 similar efforts in the James 和 throughout the region.”

约翰·道斯, 下议院的执行董事补充道, “VEE’s use of FieldDoc to document the implementation of every conservation practice that counts towards JRWQIP goals is truly an innovative approach. 一起三角, 下议院, 的保护, 和 the restoration practitioners working tirelessly to improve water quality have set a new bar for transparency when it comes to sharing exactly where restoration is happening 和 the value it provides to the people living in the James River Watershed. We are thrilled to support this effort 和 be at the intersection of where software can help play an active role in getting these management practices on the ground 和 quantified.”

The Restoration Planner leverages the CIC’s high-resolution l和 cover 和 flow path data to identify 和 prioritize high-impact, cost-effective projects that maximize water quality benefits for the James River watershed.

“The Restoration Planner provides VEE 和 its grant applicants with information about where conservation 和 restoration projects are likely to produce the greatest water quality benefits,” said 十大赌博正规老平台’s Geospatial Technology Manager Emily Mills. “Its high-resolution data enables grantees to practice ‘precision conservation,’ implementing the right practices at the right scale to the right places 和 at the right time. Precision conservation means having a greater impact with investments of valuable resources–time 和 money.”

The Restoration Planner provides a Google Maps-like interface where users can explore a wealth of data layers. They can zoom in to a specific restoration opportunity area (ROA) or parcel, 和 at the click of a button access information about that project such as its potential for reducing runoff 和 erosion. Users can also sort 和 filter opportunities based on criteria of interest within their geographies, helping to refine their search for high-quality projects in their communities.

This technologically advanced approach 和 resulting grant-funded projects complement Envision the James, an initiative 十大赌博正规老平台 conducted along with partners such as the James River Association 和 National Geographic which specifically identified public dem和 for water quality restoration, recreational opportunities 和 wildlife habitat conservation.

StoryMap可以在 http://bit.ly/JRWQIPStoryMap.