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Show Chapter 5 Recommendations Various partnerships, both formal and informal, have been effective in achieving the goal of providing excellent water quality to approximately 400,000 water users in the Salt Lake Valley. The partnerships include a Memorandum of Understanding between the Forest Service and Salt Lake City outlining management responsibilities in the canyons. Salt Lake City and County share watershed and development- related items on an ongoing basis. All agencies involved in watershed management rely on water quality and health concerns from the Salt Lake City- County Health Department. In an effort to proactively manage the watershed, annual or more frequent coordination meetings involving all watershed partners would provide a forum to discuss current watershed management issues and concerns. These meetings would serve as an opportunity to devise solutions to problems or issues that may arise outside of the watershed management plan. Partners may also use these meetings as opportunities to discuss new program or management ideas and establish support for implementation. • Recommendation: Salt Lake City will review and update all Memorandums of Understanding every two years. Implementation: The first bi- annual meetings for review and update all Memorandums of Understanding will commence by September 1, 2000. Explanation: Information and ideas shared at the annual watershed meetings will be used to review and update all currently active Memorandums of Understanding. 2. Form new partnerships. • Recommendation: The Department of Public Utilities will, within 90 days of the adoption of the 1999 Watershed Management Plan by the City Council, form a partnership with interested stakeholders in the canyons, including community councils. Page 82 |