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Ohio River Basin Trading Program:Quarterly Update

August 19th, 2009Public Webcast

Jessica FoxProject [email protected]

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1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Purpose of Webcast

• Quarterly Project Update• Continue Collaborative Framework• Invite Comments and Questions


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Highlights Last Quarter

• Funding• WQT to Broader Program in Ohio River Basin• ORSANCO & EPRI to Collaborate on WARMF• Linking Nutrient Trading Tool (USDA) to WARMF• Project Website Active


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Project Collaboration

Electric Power Research Institute

American Electric Power

American Farmland Trust

Hoosier Energy

Hunton & Williams

Kieser & Associates

Miami Conservancy District

ORSANCO

Tennessee Valley Authority


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 PBS Special Report - April 2009


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Highlights: Poisoned Waters

• More than three decades after the Clean Water Act, iconic American waterways like the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound are in perilous condition and facing new sources of contamination.

• "The irony is that everybody looks at that [picturesque] scene and thinks that it's great. But in point of fact, not 100 feet away from where they are drinking a nice glass of wine off their white linen, there is this unbelievable gunk coming out of the end of this pipe."


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Program Organization (proposed)

Ohio River Basin Trading Program

Water Quality Trading Greenhouse Gas Credits

Ecosystem Service Research Air/Water Linkages


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Total N Yield Delivered to the Gulf

Alexander et al. 2000 Nature V 403


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1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Watershed Modeling

Watershed Analysis Risk Management Framework (WARMF)

Dr. Arturo A. Keller, Ph.D.Bren School of Environmental Science & ManagementUniversity of California, Santa Barbara


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1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Applying WARMF to Ohio River Basin


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Watershed Processes in WARMF

Dissolution, Advection, Decay

Soil Erosion & Wash Off

Fertilizer, pesticides, animal droppings

Subsurface Processes

Mineral Weathering

AMD

Septic Systems

Organic Matter Decay

Nitrification

Cation Exchange

Plant Uptake


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 WARMF Model Input Needs

• Topography (DEM)• Land use (urban, ag, crop types)• Soil data• Meteorology• Point source data (flow, loads, timing)• Non-point source data (loads, timing)• Water management data (GW pumping, reservoir mgmt,

locks & dams, …)• Observed flow and water quality data


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Parameters Modeled

• Nutrients (NO3, NO2, NH3, PO4)• Dissolved Oxygen & Temperature• Sediments (separate clay, silt & sand loads)• Major ions (Ca, Mg, Na, K, SO4, Cl, …)• Metals (including Hg model)• pH• Pesticides• Algae & chlorophyll a


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• Award winning process with stakeholder input

• Nitrogen TMDL• Balanced interests between

LA and Ventura Counties


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Linking Sources to Water Quality

PointNon-Point

Ammonia


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Linking Sources to Water Quality

PointNon-Point

Upstream/GW

Nitrate


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Reach 7 below Valencia: Source Contributions

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Total LoadPS contributionNPS contributionGW contributionAtmospheric contribution


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NH3/NH4+ NO3

- N2(g)


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Collaborator In the Spotlight

On the Phone:

Alan Vicory, Executive Director www.orsanco.org

Since 1948, ORSANCO and its member states have cooperated to improve water quality in the Ohio River Basin so that the river and its tributaries can be used for drinking water, industrial supplies, and recreational purposes; and can support a healthy and diverse aquatic community.


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Investigating Stacking with GHGs

Adam Diamant, EPRI Global Climate Program

Demonstrating the potential to achieve large scale, cost-effective GHG emissions offsets by reducing N2O emissions from agricultural crop production.

EPRI developed this project in collaboration with one of the world’s foremost experts on non-CO2 GHG emissions from agriculture – Dr. Phil Robertson, Professor of Crop and Soil Sciences at Michigan State University (MSU).


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Measuring N2O Automated Chambers

Nitrous Oxide is a powerful non-CO2 greenhouse gas (GHG).– 100-year Global Warming Potential (GWP) is 296. 1 ton of N2 O emissions = 296 tons CO2 e.

EPRI PID# 1013128


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Research on Ecosystem Services

We are scoping out research on Ecosystem Services in the Upper Mississippi and Ohio River Basins.

The purpose will be to inform the sustainable use of ecosystem services.

In discussions with USDA Office of Ecosystem Services and Markets (Sally Collins) and EPA Ecosystem Service Research Program (Rick Linthurst).

More to come . . .


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Science Magazine

Restoration of Ecosystem Services for Environmental Markets.

By Margaret A. Palmer and Solange Filoso

“Without new science and an oversight framework to protect the ecosystem service assets which people depend, [ecosystem service] markets could actually accelerate environmental degradation.”

Science 31 July 2009:Vol. 325. no. 5940, pp. 575 - 576


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Funding

• EPA Targeted Watersheds Grant, Contracting, $1M• Conservation Innovation Grant USDA Grant, Contracting,

$300K• EPRI Supplemental Project, raised $210K, seeking $500K

Current Funding including match: ~$2M


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Conservation Innovation Grant

• Grant: $297,778• Coupling Market Infrastructure with Ecosystem Service

Markets: Initial Framework Scoping for an Ohio River Credit Trading Program

• The project will identify the structure, and preliminarily test the function of a specific agricultural credit calculation tools and related infrastructure for water quality and greenhouse gas trading in a robust water quality credit trading market developing in the Ohio River.

• Linking WARMF to Nutrient Trading Tool (NTT)• http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/programs/cig/2009awards.html• 12 month scope


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Targeted Watershed Grant

• Regional Water Quality Trading Program Design for the Ohio River Basin. Grant: $995,000

• 3 year grant• Phase II proposal, Program design and implementation.• Scope:

– Overall Program Management – Stakeholder Engagement – WARMF Modeling, Verification & Monitoring, Credit

Registry


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Supplemental Project (1018855)

• Organization and Facilitation of Stakeholder Group

• Support Trading Program Design

• Continue Watershed Modeling (WARMF)

• Evaluation of Credit Stacking with Carbon and Water quality credits


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Published Quarterly Update


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Project Website

www.epri.com/ohiorivertrading


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1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Next Quarter Activities

• Scoping out long-term governance structure• RFQ or RFP for Credit Registry• Define Ecosystem Service component of project• Investigate credit stacking with carbon


1-877-789-2085PIN: 7712 Staying Connected

• Save the Date, Quarterly Webcasts:– November 18, 09, 10 am PT– February 17, 09, 10 am PT

• Add Yourself to Our Contact List• Send Comments

– E-mail: [email protected]– www.ohiorivertrading.com


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Jessica Fox, Project Manager

Phone: 650-855-2138

Email: [email protected]

Project e-mail: [email protected]

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