English speaker/Video Voiceover Narrator for MBNEP video productions.
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Vocal Characteristics
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM) North American (US South) North American (US West Coast - California, Portland)Transcript
Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
Alabama is endowed with a natural abundance of beautiful flowing waters. Our creeks, rivers and bays not only serve as the engine driving our state's economy. They are critical to the preservation of the mosaic of ecosystems, essential for the diversity and health of our fishery and wildlife populations with the highest species diversity of any state. East of Mississippi Alabama leads the country in number of freshwater aquatic species, with the nation's second largest intact river delta system. It's no wonder the mobile tensile delta has become known as America's amazon to protect these statewide resources now and into the future. Proper management of our waters is key. According to the E. P. A management strategy should target drainage areas that discharge into receiving waters. The enormous watershed discharging a new mobile bay covers most of Alabama and comprises many small sub watersheds scalable for developing watershed management plans. So watershed management plans are a E. P. A prescribed process for bringing stakeholders within the watershed together. This is everything from local citizens, homeowners, business owners, municipal state federal agencies to come up with an accurate picture of what's going on within a watershed. It's a science based approach to identifying problems and identifying solutions to remedy those issues within that given watershed, a watershed management plan evaluates land use topography, soil types and storm water hydrology takes over a year to develop requires extensive community engagement and focuses on teaching communities about the land that impacts their waters. It identifies problems that threaten water quality and recommends prioritized solutions to those problems. It even identifies potential funding sources to pay for those solutions Joe's branch in the Dough Leave Creek watershed provides an instructive example of how a watershed management plan and seed money from eight M 3 19 can bring together a range of stakeholders to address stormwater issues. In 2006, community leaders approach the Mobile Bay National estuary program about excessive sedimentation in the Lake Forest Lake, with many blaming the problem on a large construction project. Nearby, a watershed management plan for the Dough Leave Creek, Hiawassee Creek and Joe's branch sub watersheds was initiated while mismanaged construction sites often contribute to sediment entering nearby waterways. The completed plan revealed the primary source was erosion throughout the intricate network of the watershed streams and creeks, increased volumes and velocities of stormwater runoff, triggered by heavy rains on developed surfaces and rushing over steep terrain through highly irritable soils, incised and collapsed stream banks deepen streambeds and carried the enormous loads of sediments downstream. The greatest sediment source was an ephemeral unnamed tributary of Joe's branch. The erosion was so severe it threatened us Highway 31 and residences in an adjacent neighborhood with sediment pollution delivered from one city to impact another. Funding was used to stabilize the tributary with a step pool. Stormwater conveyance system designed to increase infiltration, reduced the speed and energy of stormwater runoff and curtail the sediment loads while preserving ecological function. The project won the 2015 gulf Guardian award for partnerships and set in motion a series of other priority activities all across the watershed, including the restoration of more than 11,000 linear feet of impacted streams and over 92 acres of floodplains at Joe's Branch, post restoration monitoring revealed a 90 to 95% reduction of sediment pollution.
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