Conservation Strategies

The SCWCP Conservation Strategies are tools for California's rural coastal communities to use in their efforts to increase summer instream flow for improved aquatic habitat and improve water supply sustainability. Each strategy is designed for use by a water purveyor, community group, or individual to identify and implement specific measures. Eight Conservation Strategies have been developed as part of the SCWCP and target communities have been identified for strategies.

Each strategy includes a brief summary of the topic, discussion of the target community, an assessment of the effect of implementation, a section describing "how to implement," and numerous tools and resources to facilitate implementation.

Feel free to download these and use them in your community.

1. Stream Restoration For Salmonids 4.4 MB pdf
2. Residential Self-Survey for Efficient Water Use 2.0 MB pdf
   Residential Water Use Calculator 44 KB xls
3. Low Water Gardening for Rural Coastal California Communities 2.2 MB pdf
4. Stormwater Management for Coastal California Communities 2.4 MB pdf
5. Roofwater Harvesting for Coastal California Communities 2.2 MB pdf
6. Conservation in the Hospitality Industry 1.5 MB pdf
7. Water Rates for Rural Coastal California Communities 1.4 MB pdf
8. Managing Water Systems in Rural Coastal California Communities 1.4 MB pdf

Portable Document Format (pdf)

Strategies are available in portable document format (pdf), which require that Adobe Acrobat Reader be installed on your computer in order to read them. Visit get.adobe.com/reader to download this free program.

Note: Some of these files are large and may take several minutes to download depending on the speed of your internet connection.