This Master’s Project, completed at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, envisions that the Tan Brook Watershed becomes a resilient ecosystem sustaining ecological, economic and social systems and serves as a model for other communities. Water quality improvement, social benefit and habitat restoration are the objectives that support the vision. These objectives can be realized through physical actions, policy actions and educational/research actions, these actions in the matrix are represented in different colors for ease of differentiation. These actions are prioritized by time frame according to importance and position in the overall process of the improvement recommendations. The matrix is keyed to the Tan Brook Watershed Vision Map using the same numeric system that the map uses to show an image of that action and its location within the watershed and surrounding area.
