NOTE: The Consensus Module has been discontinued in WARMF version 7. This page is a reference for users of WARMF version 6.
The cost sharing dialog provides tabular information to assist in determining fair apportionment of the costs of different watershed management scenarios. For any management scenario, a cost and overhead can be entered into the spreadsheet. Some of the cost may be paid for by point source dischargers as a fee for each kilogram of BOD, nitrogen, or phosphorus discharged. Assessment of such a fee should be based on the critical nutrient in a watershed. The spreadsheet then calculates fees that would be imposed upon each point source discharger given existing discharge water quality. An alternate should be available so that a point source discharger may pay into a fund to decrease non-point source loading. In return, the discharger gets a credit toward their own emissions. This way, market factors can determine the most economical method of reducing overall loading.