Emergency Watershed Protection Program
Incident: Gap Wildland Fire
Released: 7/19/2008
Emergency Watershed Protection
The purpose of the Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) Program is to undertake emergency measures, including the purchase of flood plain easements, for runoff retardation and soil erosion prevention to safeguard lives and property from floods, drought, and the products of erosion on any watershed whenever fire, flood or any other natural occurrence is causing or has caused a sudden impairment of the watershed.
