Monitoring Area Description Sample Clauses
Monitoring Area Description. The monitoring areas associated with this Agreement occur within a larger Area of Interest that includes the Upper Great Salt Lake Desert Flow System (GSLDFS). Within this Area of Interest, two specific areas have been delineated in which biological, hydrologic, and air-quality monitoring will be conducted. These areas are named “Tier I” and “Tier II” Monitoring Areas, respectively, and are depicted on Figure 1. Within the Tier I and Tier II Monitoring Areas are Key Areas of Biological Concern (KABCs), also depicted on Figure 1. These KABCs were identified to focus the monitoring approach, and were based on the presence of groundwater- influenced ecosystems inhabited by Species of Greatest Conservation Need identified in the Utah Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (CWCS 2005) or contain phreatophytic vegetation susceptible to effects resulting from groundwater development.
Monitoring Area Description. The monitoring areas associated with this Agreement occur within a larger Area of Interest that includes the Upper Great Salt Lake Desert Flow System (GSLDFS). Within this Area of Interest, two specific areas have been delineated in which biological, hydrologic, and air-quality monitoring will be conducted. These areas are named “Tier I” and “Tier II” Monitoring Areas, respectively, and are depicted on Figure 1. Within the Tier I and Tier II Monitoring Areas are Key Areas of Biological Concern (KABCs), also depicted on Figure 1. These KABCs were identified to focus the monitoring approach, and were based on the presence of groundwater-influenced ecosystems inhabited by Species of Greatest Conservation Need identified in the Utah Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy (CWCS 2005) or contain phreatophytic vegetation susceptible to effects resulting from groundwater development. The Tier I Monitoring Area includes a large part of the Snake Valley hydrographic area, extending from ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Spring at the northern end of Snake Valley to the southern boundary of the Snake Valley hydrographic area. The Tier I Monitoring Area includes parts of Nevada and Utah adjacent to the SNWA proposed points of diversion, areas of current agricultural use, and KABCs. The Parties anticipate that effects to groundwater levels and groundwater-influenced ecosystems that may result from groundwater pumping by SNWA will first occur within the Tier I Monitoring Area. Therefore, monitoring efforts will be greatest in the Tier I Monitoring Area and will include a higher density of monitoring sites, and greater scope and frequency of data collection to ensure early detection of effects resulting from SNWA groundwater withdrawals in Snake Valley. Biologic, hydrologic, and air-quality monitoring requirements for the Tier I Monitoring Area are specified in this Appendixes 1, 2 and 3. Specific biologic, hydrologic, and air-quality parameters were selected for monitoring based on their susceptibility to be influenced by changing groundwater conditions. The Tier II Monitoring Area extends to the east, north and south from the Tier I Monitoring Area, to adjacent areas including the northern part of Snake Valley (north of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Spring) and the hydrographic areas of Fish Springs Flat, Tule Valley, Pine Valley, and Wah Wah Valley. Because virtually no groundwater development has occurred in these areas and they are distant from the proposed SNWA points of diversion, monitoring in the Tier II ...