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4 <br />:~ <br />gauging stations v~~ill continue indefinitely. Every five years a fish and benthic <br />macroinvertebrate survey should be performed and analyzed for the entire basin. <br />VIIL EDUCATION <br />The ARSG is an entity interested in engaging the public and government agencies in <br />making progress in meeting our goals of improved water quality and aquatic habitat <br />throughout the basin. We intend to continue our nine year tradition of holding open <br />public monthly meetings as well as special work group~meeting as necessary. We make <br />all information readily accessible to the public as primed materials in the Silverton library <br />and at the offices of the Coordinator and San Juan RC&D. Electronic digital information <br />is available on CDRO'Vl, floppy disk, and through our web site at waterinfo.org/arsg/. <br />Many presentations are made both locally and regionally concerning our progress, <br />methods, technology evaluation, and successes and failures. We have made several <br />~~ideos, some of which regularly play on local TV stations and at regional film festivals. <br />Vb'e will continue to engage the public through these and other methods. A primary goal <br />is to de~•elop a local sense of stewardship for the watershed. <br />IX. SCHEDULE <br />The stakeholder process will serve to prioritize sites for remediation, encourage <br />remediation, advance technologies, and provide resource opportunities. However, public <br />and private landowners and,~or those responsible parties will ultimately be legally <br />responsible and most often be project proponents. ARSG will implement demonstration <br />projects to further encourage watershed improvement and test new technologies. Given <br />the enormous size of the basin and high number of mine sites, remediation and recovery <br />efforts could take as long as 20 years. It is hoped that three sites can be addressed each <br />year. <br />X. MILESTOlV'ES <br />Milestones presently include averaging 3 mine site remediations per year and a <br />re~~iew of achievements to meeting the goal based stream standards every five years. <br />Overall completion of the plan is not expected before 20 years due to the large amount of <br />projects that must be accomplished, lack of adequate funding, and lack of a regulatory <br />mechanism that encourages voluntary cleanups. <br />XI. MEASUREMENT OF ACHIEVEMENT <br />Evaluation of individual remediation projects, as well as geochemical evaluations at <br />the four gauges and biomonitoring at key locations, will be a component of both the <br />evaluation of remediation and future remediation planning processes. The ARSG will <br />continue to collect data from property owners, public land managers, and other <br />_ - s =-~ _ _r~ __ ~ - --_ <br />