Planning for a Thriving, Healthy
Chignik Regional Watershed!
Save the Date for the Chignik Regional Resiliency Symposium!
June 6-8, 2024
What is the project purpose?
Through an Alaska Clean Water Action grant from the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, the Chignik Bay Tribal Council is preparing a subregional watershed plan for the Chignik subregion. The plan will summarize information about the watershed, identify and prioritize projects to support watershed health, and empower local management in protecting and promoting water resources in the subregion.
What are we trying to learn?
Summarize what we know about the watershed:
- Issues and opportunities.
- Known/suspected pollution sources.
- What residents most value about the watershed.
Based on the initial findings, we will identify and prioritize options for reducing pollution and promoting water quality, while supporting economic development opportunities such as commercial fishing, subsistence, and ecotourism.
FAQs.
What is a watershed?
A watershed is a land area that drains to a common waterway, such as a stream, lake, estuary, wetland, or ultimately the ocean.
What is watershed plannning?
Watershed planning provides a framework for assessing and managing water quality within a watershed.
Adopted from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Handbook for Developing Watershed Plans.
What are the watershed boundaries?
What is the timeline?
June-August 2023
- Launch project
- Identify stakeholders
- Attend Chignik Climate Resiliency Symposium
August - October 2023
- Inventory information, including traditional ecological knowledge
- Identify sources of known, historical, and suspected water quality threats
September 2023 - June 2024
- Prepare watershed issues assessment with all findings to date
- Visit Chignik communities; host conversations
July 2024 - February 2025
- Prepare draft and final plan
- Develop funding and implementation recommendations
- Present plan
Project documents.
- Chignik Subregional Watershed Plan Flyer, September 2023
- Potential Water Quality Threats and Pollution Sources in the Chignik Watershed, September 2023
- Bristol Bay Leadership Forum: Project Presentation, December 7, 2023
- Chignik Subregional Watershed Plan Watershed Characterization Summary, November 2023
Other relevant resources.
- Chignik Regional Climate Resiliency Symposium, June 4-5, 2023
Download the Symposium Summary - UAF’s Arctic Coastal Geoscience Lab and the Alaska Coastal Cooperative: Introductory Presentation at the 2nd Chignik Regional Climate Resiliency Symposium (Chris Maio)
Download the Presentation Slides - UAF’s Arctic Coastal Geoscience Lab and the Alaska Coastal Cooperative: Ongoing and Future Work (Matthew Balazs)
Download the Presentation Slides - UAF’s Arctic Coastal Geoscience Lab and the Alaska Coastal Cooperative: Very High-Resolution Mapping of Anadromous Streams and Salmon Habitat in the Chignik Watershed (Mike Willis, Matthew Balazs, Chris Maio)
Download the Presentation Slides - UAF’s Arctic Coastal Geoscience Lab and the Alaska Coastal Cooperative: Chignik Bay Coastal Hazard Assessment (Jessica Christian, Reyce Bogardus, Harper Baldwin, Richard Buzard, Roberta Glenn, Ed Krauss, Jeanette Carlson, Deb Carlson, Chris Maio)
Download the Report - Chignik Intertribal Coalition (George Anderson/CIC President
Download the Preliminary Climate Risk Assessment Summary - Chignik Subregion Map Project (Marcus Geist/Artesian Knowledge LCC)
Download the Presentation Slides - Green Star Program Assessment of Chignik Bay (Joy Britt/Alaska Forum on Environment, Environmental Programs Director)
Download the Presentation Slides - Native Village of Chignik Indian Environmental General Assistance Program (IGAP)
Download the Chignik Solid and Hazardous Waste and Marine Debris Collection Work Plan - Chignik Bay Climate Resiliency Action Plan Final Draft (Isaac Pearson/Bristol Engineering Services Corporation, LLC Senior Civil Engineer)
Download the Presentation Slides
Downlaod the Action Plan - Community-Based Monitoring: Shoreline Change in Southwest Alaska (Jessie Ellen Christian)
Download the UAF Master Thesis