Common use of Effectiveness Monitoring Clause in Contracts

Effectiveness Monitoring. PALCO, with input from the wildlife agencies and peer review panels, will craft hillslope effectiveness monitoring, instream effectiveness monitoring, and trend monitoring strategies for each hydrologic unit. The exact details of what, where, when, and how PALCO will monitor will be determined by questions and hypotheses posed by PALCO and the wildlife agencies. PALCO and the wildlife agencies will develop these monitoring objectives based on the findings of watershed analysis and other sources of assembled information. PALCO will use effectiveness monitoring as a basis for evaluating the results of carrying out prescriptions on the features or processes that occur on the hillslope and on those in the instream environment. Hillslope effectiveness monitoring will help PALCO determine whether properly implemented prescriptions on the hillslope actually work (e.g., properly installed water bars actually prevented road surface rill erosion). Instream effectiveness monitoring will be used to determine whether the prescriptions result in protection of aquatic values (e.g., maintained or decreased the percent of fine sediment in spawning riffles). PALCO will monitor both instream and upslope conditions to assess the effectiveness of the Aquatics Conservation Plan. These effectiveness studies, in turn, will provide most of the impetus for the adaptive management component of the Plan.