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Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program <br />e. Monitoring program: A program outlining the approach for monitoring <br />construction of the compensation project and for assessing a completed project <br />shall be provided. Monitoring may include, but is not limited to: <br />i. Establishing vegetation plots to track plant establishment/survival, and <br />changes in plant species composition and density over time; <br />ii. Using photo stations to evaluate vegetation community response; <br />iii. Measuring physical parameters such as wetland size, stream dimensions, <br />channel characteristics, buffer width; <br />iv. Monitoring shallow groundwater levels to document hydrologic <br />reg i mes/hyd ro-periods; <br />v. Sampling surface and subsurface waters to determine pollutant loading and <br />changes from the natural variability of background conditions (pH, nutrients, <br />heavy metals); <br />vi. Measuring base flow rates and stormwater runoff to model and evaluate <br />water quality predictions, if appropriate; <br />vii. Measuring sedimentation rates, if applicable; and <br />viii. Sampling fish and wildlife populations to determine habitat utilization, <br />species abundance and diversity. <br />L Monitoring and reporting: A monitoring report shall be submitted annually, at a <br />minimum, documenting milestones, successes, problems, and contingency <br />actions of the compensation project. The compensation project shall be <br />monitored for a period necessary to establish that performance standards have <br />been met, but not for a period less than five (5) years. <br />g. Contingency plan: ldentification of potential courses of action, and any corrective <br />measures to be taken when monitoring or evaluation indicates project <br />performance standards are not being met. <br />h. Additional information as specified elsewhere in this Section, as applicable. <br />F. Requlations-wetland desiqnation. mappinq. delineation. and cateqorization <br />1. Designation: Wetlands are those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or <br />ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under <br />normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for <br />life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include, but are not limited to, <br />swamps, marshes, bogs, ponds, and similar areas. Wetlands do not include those <br />artificial wetlands intentionally created from non-wetland sites, including, but not <br />limited to, irrigation and drainage ditches, grass-lined swales, canals, detention <br />facilities, wastewater treatment facilities, farm ponds, and landscape amenities, or <br />those wetlands created after July 1, 1990, that were unintentionally created as a <br />result of the construction of a road, street, or highway. Wetlands may include those <br />artificial wetlands intentionally created from non-wetland areas to mitigate the <br />conversion of wetlands. <br />Chapter 5 <br />March 7,2016 <br />63