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Show Salt Lake City Watershed Management Plan ' 99 quality impacts. As new development issues are raised, it is important for Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County to work together to continually monitor the effectiveness of the Sensitive Lands Protection Ordinance. If amendments to the regulations need to be made, Salt Lake City supports changes that will prevent additional water quality impacts. 4. Watershed protection/ enforcement. Recommendation: Continue to support Salt Lake County Sheriff's enforcement of watershed regulations. Implementation: Ongoing. Explanation: The Salt Lake County Sheriff patrols several of the canyons in the watershed. They are responsible for law enforcement and watershed regulations enforcement. Recommendation: Provide Sheriffs Deputies with adequate watershed education materials to educate users about the watershed. Implementation: Salt Lake City will provide the Sheriff's Deputies with watershed education materials by June 1, 2000. i i Explanation: Sheriff's Deputies issue hundreds of warnings and citations each year concerning watershed violations. If Sheriff's Deputies are equipped with education materials, they may assist in the overall watershed education efforts as well as prevent future watershed violations. The Watershed Fact Book, mentioned in the Watershed Education section of the recommendations, may be handed out to users by Sheriff's Deputies with each user contact. It is important for the Sheriff's Deputies to distribute educational materials due to the agency's regularity of encounters with the public. Recommendation: Assess the specific causes of riparian zone degradation in Big Cottonwood and Little Cottonwood Canyons, then develop cooperative solutions to better manage the activities that contribute to those impacts. Page 89 |