Watershed Planning includes the development of 9 Initial Watershed Plans. These Plans will outline clear regionwide and Watershed Area-specific targets and needs, efforts to date, and highlight strategies and opportunities to guide the SCW Program’s future investments. The Plans will be adaptive and will continue to be updated as new learnings arise. The Initial Watershed Plans and their companion online Planning Tool will be launched in early 2026.

Draft Initial Watershed Plans for all 9 SCW Program Watershed Areas are now available for review and public comment – Click the links to the left to see the Draft Plans and related documents for each Watershed Area.

The following draft items are available for review:

• Executive Summaries for each Initial Watershed Plan
• Draft Initial Watershed Plans and Appendices
• Online Watershed Planning Tool (beta-version)

Additionally, Public Notice is being provided about a proposed Addendum to the SCW Program’s Feasibility Study Guidelines (FSG). This Addendum adds a 20^th requirement to the existing 19 FSG requirements, which will require that Infrastructure Program applicants describe how their proposed projects align with the Initial Watershed Plans once the final versions of the Plans are released.

All stakeholders and the public are invited to submit comments on the Draft Initial Watershed Plans and the FSG Addendum using this Public Comment Form during the open public comment period from August 14 to September 28, 2025.

As part of Watershed Planning, the Community Strengths and Needs Assessment (CSNA) Survey was created to give residents the opportunity to share what matters most in their neighborhoods, outlining their communities’ strengths, key needs, and opportunities. Results are displayed in the interactive CSNA Dashboard, an online GIS-based tool that shows survey findings and tracks changes over time.