Agriculture Water Quality Alliance AWQA

Contact Information

Website: http://www.awqa.org/

Lisa Lurie
Agriculture Water Quality Coordinator
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
299 Foam St.
Monterey, CA 93940
Phone: 831-647-4219

Overview

The Agriculture Water Quality Alliance is a regional collaboration of agriculture industry groups, federal, state, and local agencies, technical experts, environmental organizations and university researchers working to carry out the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary’s Agriculture and Rural Lands Plan. Working to protect water quality within the watersheds that drain to the Sanctuary, farmers and ranchers are using management practices on their properties to reduce runoff in the form of sediments, nutrients and pesticides.

The Agriculture and Rural Lands Plan lays out voluntary strategies to reduce agricultural runoff through increasing technical assistance and education, identifying funding for conservation projects, coordinating and streamlining the existing permitting system as it relates to implementing erosion control practices, supporting research and monitoring, and improving maintenance practices for rural roadways and public lands.

With a mix of federal, state, and private funding, AWQA is coordinating efforts to protect regional water quality, working in many watersheds throughout the six-county area. The effort is guided by a Steering Committee based on input from farmers, ranchers and agriculture industry groups.

Mission

Vision: “Together we will protect and enhance water in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary and the adjacent watersheds while sustaining a world class production agriculture region through voluntary collaboration with managers of agricultural and rural lands.”

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