Future Forum Topics Suggested by Basin Stakeholders:

April 10, 2003

·         Monitoring.

·         Water quality – non-point source issues, floodplain land use issues, etc.

·         Habitat/Flow seminar.

·         Habitat creation and enhancement, giving examples.

·         Comprehensive river basin planning.

·         Cultural Resource Protection.

·         Economics of the river – current, future, potential, etc.

·         Presentations on competing economic interests in the basin.

·         Channel degradation and what can be done about it.

·         Bank stabilization.

·         Water allocations.

·         How MRBA can create a stakeholder committee.

·         Comprehensive land use planning for the entire basin to better deal with flood control, creation         of backwater habitat, and overall enhancement of the riverine system. 

·         Permitting compliance issues, impacts of effluent discharges, monitoring benthic macroinvertabrate species on the river and its tributaries using volunteer monitoring efforts.

·         Nuisance species, such as zebra mussels (monitoring, control and impacts on native species)