We have plans! 

The Kalamazoo River watershed has no shortage of developing plans, existing plans, and planning updates.

• Community Action
• Ecosystem
  
• Contamination Cleanup
• Pollution Reduction and Prevention
• Preservation
• Access/Use

Community Action Plan 

A) Kalamazoo River Watershed Community Action Plan.  2008.  This website, and these community action tables (coming soon).  Kalamazoo River Watershed Council.

• The community action plan will bring together an overview of all critical watershed issues in one place, but primarily serves as a resource to encourage the watershed community to be engaged. 

Ecosystem Plans

A) Remedial Action Plan.  1998, reprinted 2000.  Kalamazoo River Watershed Council.

• The remedial action plan was an early ecosystem/watershed management plan developed as a guide to fix and remove impairments and eventually delist the Kalamazoo River Watershed Area of Concern, a Great Lakes "Toxic Hotspot".  Broad critical actions identified in this plan are being taken by the watershed community.  Many plans followed the remedial action plan and identified subwatershed and site specific actions needed to cleanup and prevent pollution.

C) Remedial Action Plan Update.  2007.  Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.  Draft 2009 Remedial Action Plan Update under MDEQ review as of June 2009.

• The Area of Concern will no longer be considered an Area of Concern once listed problems (impairments) are addressed.  Impairments will be removed from the list over time depending on current and future cleanup and pollution prevention processes.
  
• Beach Closings- DRAFT impairment removal analysis and request.  This impairment is under review by the MDEQ.  A impairment removal request is being generated for consideration by the EPA.
  
• Dredging- the MDEQ is developing a plan for removing this impairment
  
• Aesthetics- the MDEQ is considering a statewide effort which would likely lead toward removal of this local listed impairment
  
• Fish and Wildlife Habitat and Populations- approved by MDEQ
  

A) Superfund - federal lead, removing polychlorinated biphenyl contaminated materials from the river environment

1. Natural Resource Damage Assessment - a parallel process, trustees perspective
   
2. MDEQ - state perspective
3. Responsible parties website and perspective

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Subwatershed nonpoint and stormwater efforts

Phosphorus reduction efforts

Municipal outreach

• Battle Creek Clean Water Partners
  

• Kalamazoo