Who We Are Who We Are The Bureau of Watershed Management manages activities that influence water quality and land uses that affect public health and safety. The bureau's primary objective is to provide an integrated watershed approach to managing these activities that include policy development, watershed planning and regulation, and water quality assessment.
Regions are responsible for all program implementation.
Regional staffing patterns, when fully implemented, will have staff closer to customers through service centers and will modify service delivery systems to provide a single point of contact for many services. The primary operating unit within the Regions is the Basin team. A team is assigned to each of the state's 26 river basins and is composed of staff from various disciplines who work together to plan and implement all Water Program activities within the basin. Team members need to be cross-trained in other disciplines but are able to seek advice and support from experts at Regional headquarters or Central Office as needed. In addition, the subprogram will use standing teams to address special cross-functional issues, such as dams, floodplain, sediments, and the Great Lakes.