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James Klang, PE, has joined K&A as Senior Project Scientist. Mr Klang was the lead Engineer at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) TMDL program and he has over 20 years experience in water quality and watershed management. Jamie McCarthy, M.S., has joined K&A as Project Scientist. Ms McCarthy was previously involved in water chemistry research and watershed management in the River Raisin Watershed.
KIESER &
ASSOCIATES is a unique team of scientists, engineers and economists
who find creative solutions for environmental problems.
Our Innovations page highlights
several of our unique approaches.
Our Projects pages provides a glimpse at the diversity of
projects K&A conducts.
- Mark Kieser was invited by the Environmental Law Institute as a panel participant at ELI's annual 2007 Policy Forum. The debate focused on "Ecosystem Services: Is there a business case for environmental protection? (pdf)
- On April 17, 2007, Mark Kieser presented "Market-based Incentives
to Improve Water Quality: Trading Program Examples" to the State of MN Water Quality Trading Advisory Committee.
- Mark Kieser was invited to speak at Duke University's March 1, 2007 conference on "The Future of Water in North Carolina". He presented on, "Ecosystem Service Markets: Strategies for Sustaining Clean & Abundant Water".
- As an invited speaker, Mark Kieser presented on, "Market-based Incentives to Improve Water Quality; Water Quality Credit Trading for Michigan Agriculture" at the 2007 "Agriculture's Conference on the Environment: Managing Today for Tomorrow" in Lansing, MI.
- K&A is partnering with Shaw Environmental, Inc. (Bothell, WA) and Dennis King & Associates (Solomons Islnad, MD) on a project for "Designing a Water Quality Trading Pilot" for the Electric Power Research Institute (Palo Alto, CA).
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- Mark Kieser was quoted in the Water Environment Federation Newsletter (July 2007 - scroll down to the section "Water Quality Trading Moves Forward).
- Mark Kieser is a Co-author of the first published text on trading:
Water-Quality Trading: A Guide for the Wastewater Community, 2005. (With Cy Jones, Lisa Bacon and David Sheridan). McGraw-Hill, ISBN: 0071464182, 250 pages.
- USDA Conservation Innovation
Grant: "Improving Conservation and Ag. Economics with Water Quality Trading and the BMP Challenge"
This project will build capacity by creating broad awareness and teaching in-state personnel to support CD, crop advisory professionals and others who work with farmers to meet conservation goals using new, innovative strategies. We will highlight, teach and implement point-nonpoint water quality credit trading in MN and PA
- The
Gun Lake Tribe (Allegan County, MI) and Kieser & Associates
have been nominated by EPA to receive a prestigious 2004 Targeted
Watershed Grant to test and implement water quality trading
registry tools in the Kalamazoo River Watershed.
Read
a summary or check out the Kalamazoo River Targeted Watershed
Grant website.
- Mark Kieser
led the Environmental Trading Network's Training Workshop on
Water Quality Trading
Cincinnati, OH - Aug. 22-24, 2006
Presentations and speakers bios are now available.
- The
U.S. EPA released the Final
Water Quality Trading Policy in January 2003. It was
based on many of the Kalamazoo River Water Quality Trading
Demonstration project experiences, which helped shape Michigan's
Trading Rules, the first of their kind.
- Find
out more about water quality trading at the Environmental
Trading Network website.
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Paw Paw River Watershed
- Kieser &
Associates is providing technical and modeling services to the
Southwestern Michigan Commission for the development of the Paw
Paw River Watershed Management Plan.
K&A will use the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) to estimate current sediment and phosphorus loadings, and will develop several agricultural best management practices scenarios. In addition, K&A will develop a "buildout tool" to assess the impact of urban development on runoff and pollutant load.
Cedar
Lake, Alcona County, MI
- In
the summer of 2005, K&A completed the first phase of a three-phased
effort to identify the causes of significant water level losses
in summer months in this 1,075 acre, 5-foot deep lake. Phase I project
findings (see Phase I final report)
revealed that 75% of the lake shoreline was losing water. Storm
sewers directing runoff away from the lake and high volume groundwater
withdrawals were the other significant causes of the >2 foot annual
water level drop. Phase II will involve more detailed lake level
monitoring and groundwater modeling. These efforts are being coupled
with the development of a watershed management plan.
Kalamazoo
River Watershed, MI
- Kalamazooriver.net is the spot for everything water in the Kalamazoo River Watershed.
Here you can find information on the Lake Allegan Phosphorus TMDL
Implementation, the Portage-Arcadia Creek Watershed Management Plan, the
Lake Allegan Carp Derby and the Maple Street School Rain Garden
Project.
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K&A
served as the technical consultant and website designer
to the Friends of the St. Joseph River for a bistate Watershed
Management Plan. The St. Joseph River Watershed drains 4,685
square miles from 15 counties in Michigan and Indiana and
discharges into Lake Michigan in St. Joseph, Michigan. Learn
more at the project
website. Among other technical work done by K&A
for the project, we:
Adjacent
to the St. Joseph River Watershed, lies the Portage-Arcadia
(PA) Creek Watershed, a subwatershed of the Kalamazoo
River Watershed. A Watershed Management Plan has been
developed for the Arcadia, Portage and Axtell Creek Subwatersheds.
Currently, K&A is working on a transition grant
to update
the plan to meet the new USEPA 9 Elements. The
plan was created and is being updated with a diverse steering
committee of watershed stakeholders. Research for the plan
included a creek corridor scoring component, the use of satellite
data to calculate stormwater loading to the creeks, robust
sampling, review of historic reports and a natural features
inventory. The Plan is unique in the fact that it was a completely
electronic document, allowing several viewers to access
it.
The
PA Watershed will also be the setting for a Clean Michigan
Initiative grant to identify purple loosestrife patches. K&A
is teaming with the Kalamazoo
Nature Center and ITRES to conduct low-altitute flyovers of the area. The images
collected will be analyzed to identify critical areas. Read
the project summary.
The
Axtell Creek Subwatershed of the PA Watershed was the setting
of a rain
garden installed at the Maple Street Magnet School for
the Arts to infiltrate roof top runoff. The garden serves
as a living laboratory for science and art students and diverts
70,000 cubic feet of stormwater annually from the heavily
storm-sewered Axtell Creek Subwatershed.
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