Environmental Planning
Overview
The Regional Commission has been involved with natural resources and water quality planning since its inception in 1970. The Commission is the federally designated area-wide water quality management planning agency for the region, as provided for under the Clean Water Act.
Click here to download a map of watersheds located in the WMSRDC region (Lake, Mason, Muskegon, Newaygo, and Oceana Counties).
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Services
The Regional Commisssion provides a number of services to local governments, which include:
- Maintenance of the region's Area-wide Water Quality Management Plan.
- Review and comment of wastewater expansion and other public noticed water quality improvement projects, for consistency with regional plans and programs.
- Preparation of specialized water resource and watershed projects. (Special Note: A Commission prepared non-point source water quality
report was nationally acclaimed and cited on the front page of USA Today.)
- Liason to local governments and watershed and conservation partners in the region.
- West Michigan Regional Watershed Conference in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Lake Michigan Lakewide Management Plan (LaMP).
Products and Publications
Click here to go to the a full list of recent downloadable WMSRDC publications and products.
The Regional Commission also maintains an extensive library of natural resource reports. Some examples are:
For a catalogue of publications, please use the contact information below.
Contacts
For more information concerning Environmental Planning, please call (231) 722-7878 ext. 17 or contact:
| Kathy Evans | kevans@wmsrdc.org |
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