<< BACK

Landscape Hydrology Diagrams update

Through support from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Wetland Program Development Grant, the Homer District has been working with the Kenai Watershed Forum and Restoration Science and Engineering (an Anchorage consulting firm) to develop landscape-level diagrams that illustrate the hydrology of four regions within the Western Kenai Peninsula.

This project was identified as a priority in 2003 because there is limited knowledge of how groundwater flows through the complex glacial landscapes of the Western Kenai Peninsula. The diagrams represent cross-sections of the Homer area, the Anchor River, Deep Creek & Ninilchik River, and a final landscape diagram of the area surrounding the Kenai River. Groundwater flows are typically characterized by local (flows through a system within a few days to a few weeks), intermediate (flows through a system within months to years), and regional (flows through a system in decades to centuries) flows. Draft diagrams will be available for viewing by the middle of December. Check back for updates.

In 2004, the Homer Soil and Water Conservation District received funding from the US EPA that will assist communities and scientists understand how groundwater flows through the western Kenai Peninsula landscape, or the Kenai Lowlands. Complex glacial processes have formed the Kenai Lowlands and an understanding of groundwater flow will aid managers and the public in assessing the importance of groundwater interactions in our area.

Download "Western Kenai Peninsula: Landscape Level Groundwater Flow Diagrams" (Adobe PDF - 5.37 MB). Individual section diagrams can be made available upon request.

For the most up-to-date information on the Kenai Wetlands project, an effort to map and classify wetlands across the Kenai Peninsula, please see www.kenaiwetlands.net.

Advisory Group review draft diagrams by Restoration Science and Engineering.