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==Watershed scale==
==Watershed scale==
These tools might assist in proposing policies and management programs focusing on conservation and preservation; effect of land use on environmental resources.
These tools might assist in proposing policies and management programs focusing on conservation and preservation; effect of land use on environmental resources.
===Municipal stormwater risk management framework===
As part of the Peel Climate Change Partnership initiative to build flood resiliency, this project seeks to support member municipalities in building stormwater system resilience by assessing existing standards for applicability to stormwater and their ability to integrate climate change solutions. Using the Town of Caledon as a case study, this project draws on best practices in standards development and risk analysis to suggest elements for a Municipal Stormwater Risk Management Framework (MSW RMF).
===Sourcewater protection water quality risk assessment for climate change===
===Sourcewater protection water quality risk assessment for climate change===
This project is to develop a science-based handbook for the assessment of source water quality vulnerabilities to climate change. The handbook will assist Source Water Protection Committees with the preparation of Climate Change adaptation policies to address the relevant climate change impacts associated with their source protection areas. The handbook will include guidance and worksheets for carrying out climate change vulnerability assessment in order to incorporate relevant broad scale indicators into the drinking source water vulnerability scoring assessment.
This project is to develop a science-based handbook for the assessment of source water quality vulnerabilities to climate change. The handbook will assist Source Water Protection Committees with the preparation of Climate Change adaptation policies to address the relevant climate change impacts associated with their source protection areas. The handbook will include guidance and worksheets for carrying out climate change vulnerability assessment in order to incorporate relevant broad scale indicators into the drinking source water vulnerability scoring assessment.
===[https://trca.ca/conservation/greenspace-management/water-balance/wetland-hydroperiod-analysis-tool-2/download Wetland hydrologic analysis tool]===
===[https://trca.ca/conservation/greenspace-management/water-balance/wetland-hydroperiod-analysis-tool-2/download Wetland hydrologic analysis tool]===
The Wetland Hydroperiod Analysis Tool (WHAT) was designed to analyze wetland hydrology time series data to concisely describe the annual statistical distribution of water level depths. The statistical distribution of water levels in a wetland is referred to as the hydroperiod, and is an important determinant of a wetland’s ecological structure and function. WHAT is based on The Nature Conservancy’s Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) software (TNC, 2009) but is designed to facilitate analysis of wetland data rather than streamflow data and uses a somewhat different set of metrics. The metrics produced by WHAT can be used to determine the hydroperiod of a wetland in a natural reference condition, to compare the hydroperiods of different wetlands, or to compare the pre-development hydroperiod to the modeled or monitored post-development hydroperiod for the purposes of a feature-based water balance analysis.
The Wetland Hydroperiod Analysis Tool (WHAT) was designed to analyze wetland hydrology time series data to concisely describe the annual statistical distribution of water level depths. The statistical distribution of water levels in a wetland is referred to as the hydroperiod, and is an important determinant of a wetland’s ecological structure and function. WHAT is based on The Nature Conservancy’s Indicators of Hydrologic Alteration (IHA) software (TNC, 2009) but is designed to facilitate analysis of wetland data rather than streamflow data and uses a somewhat different set of metrics. The metrics produced by WHAT can be used to determine the hydroperiod of a wetland in a natural reference condition, to compare the hydroperiods of different wetlands, or to compare the pre-development hydroperiod to the modeled or monitored post-development hydroperiod for the purposes of a feature-based water balance analysis.