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Rapid Watershed Assessments (RWA)

 

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Rapid Watershed Assessments (RWA) provide initial estimates of where conservation investments would best address the concerns of landowners, conservation districts, and other community organizations and stakeholders within a watershed. These assessments help landowners and local leaders set priorities and determine the best actions to achieve their conservation goals.

Information Included in RWAs

RWAs contain summaries of resource concerns and opportunities that are useful for a number of activities. They provide information that can be used in conservation district annual and long range plans or provide a foundation for watershed, area-wide, or site-specific planning.

RWAs contain two components, namely a Watershed Resource Profile and an Assessment Matrix.
 

Watershed Resource Profile

The watershed resource profile compiles the best publicly available data, that includes:

• A general description of the location, size, and political units associated with the watershed.

• Physical description including land use/land cover, precipitation/climate, common resource areas, stream flow data, land capability class, etc.

• Known resource concerns and opportunities related to soils, water, plants and animals (domestic and wild), and some economic and social data.

• Status and history of resource conservation in the watershed.

• References and data sources.
 

Assessment Matrix

The Assessment Matrix summarizes, in tabular form, current resource conditions and related maintenance costs. It also summarizes desired resource conditions, conservation opportunities and related installation and maintenance costs, qualitative effects on primary resource concerns, and potential funding sources for conservation implementation.

Status

South Carolina NRCS now has all 36 watershed resource profiles completed for download by local offices. There are plans underway to start the next phase, namely completion of the complementary assessment matrices.

The following documents requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Hydrologic 
Unit Code
(HUC) 		Water Resource Profiles
03040201     Middle Pee Dee  (2.9 MB)
03040202   Lynches  (2.6 MB)
03040203   Lumber  (1.9 MB)
03040204   Little Pee Dee  (2.4 MB)
03040205   Black  (3 MB)
03040206   Waccamaw  (2.3 MB)
03040207   Lower Pee Dee  (2.3 MB)
03040208   Coastal Carolina  (1.9 MB)
03050101   Upper Catawba  (1.9 MB)
03050103   Lower Catawba  (2.5 MB)
03050104   Wateree  (2.8 MB)
03050105   Upper Broad  (2.3 MB)
03050106   Lower Broad  (2.5 MB)
03050107   Tyger  (1.4 MB)
03050108   Enoree  (2.3 MB)
03050109   Saluda  (2.8 MB)
03050110   Congaree  (2.6 MB)
03050111   Lake Marion  (2.4 MB)
03050112   Santee  (2.5 MB)
03050201   Cooper  (2.9 MB)
03050202   Stono  (2.7 MB)
03050203   North Fork Edisto  (2.5 MB)
03050204   South Fork Edisto  (2.5 MB)
03050205   Four Hole Swamp  (2.6 MB)
03050206   Edisto  (2.7 MB)
03050207   Salkehatchie/Combahee  (3 MB)
03050208   Broad   (2.7 MB)
03050209   Bulls Bay  (2.3 MB)
03050210   St. Helena Island  (2.5 MB)
0306101   Seneca  (3 MB)
0306102   Tugaloo  (2.2 MB)
0306103   Upper Savannah  (2.5 MB)
0306106   Middle Savannah  (2.4 MB)
0306107   Stevens  (2.5 MB)
0306109   Lower Savannah  (2.2 MB)
0306110   Calibogue Sound/Wright River  (2.5 MB)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Natural Resources in South Carolina Publication

This publication is a summary of natural resource concerns in South Carolina, mainly, but not exclusively, in relation to agricultural activities in the state.  To learn more, please click on image below.

 

 

Please note:

These documents are dynamic and we have the technology to make changes to a document literally within minutes of any error/change reported. Please contact Mark Evans at 777-2918 or e-mail mevans@esri.sc.edu to report any errors or concerns you may have regarding the resource profiles in your area. In addition, there is space in each resource profile to add local information that may not be known outside the local area. If you have information that you think may contribute to the value of a resource profile, please also contact Mark Evans in this regard.

 



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