Author: George H. BeltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Design of Forest Riparian Buffer Strips for the Protection of Water Quality
Author: George H. BeltPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fishes
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Establishing Vegetative Buffer Strips Along Streams to Improve Water Quality
Author: Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309172683
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 569
Book Description
In 1997, New York City adopted a mammoth watershed agreement to protect its drinking water and avoid filtration of its large upstate surface water supply. Shortly thereafter, the NRC began an analysis of the agreement's scientific validity. The resulting book finds New York City's watershed agreement to be a good template for proactive watershed management that, if properly implemented, will maintain high water quality. However, it cautions that the agreement is not a guarantee of permanent filtration avoidance because of changing regulations, uncertainties regarding pollution sources, advances in treatment technologies, and natural variations in watershed conditions. The book recommends that New York City place its highest priority on pathogenic microorganisms in the watershed and direct its resources toward improving methods for detecting pathogens, understanding pathogen transport and fate, and demonstrating that best management practices will remove pathogens. Other recommendations, which are broadly applicable to surface water supplies across the country, target buffer zones, stormwater management, water quality monitoring, and effluent trading.
The Effectiveness of Buffer Strips to Protect Water Quality
Author: Steven E. WoodardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water quality management
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Principles of Soil Conservation and Management
Author: Humberto Blanco-CanquiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402087098
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 617
Book Description
“Principles of Soil Management and Conservation” comprehensively reviews the state-of-knowledge on soil erosion and management. It discusses in detail soil conservation topics in relation to soil productivity, environment quality, and agronomic production. It addresses the implications of soil erosion with emphasis on global hotspots and synthesizes available from developed and developing countries. It also critically reviews information on no-till management, organic farming, crop residue management for industrial uses, conservation buffers (e.g., grass buffers, agroforestry systems), and the problem of hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico and in other regions. This book uniquely addresses the global issues including carbon sequestration, net emissions of CO2, and erosion as a sink or source of C under different scenarios of soil management. It also deliberates the implications of the projected global warming on soil erosion and vice versa. The concern about global food security in relation to soil erosion and strategies for confronting the remaining problems in soil management and conservation are specifically addressed. This volume is suitable for both undergraduate and graduate students interested in understanding the principles of soil conservation and management. The book is also useful for practitioners, extension agents, soil conservationists, and policymakers as an important reference material.
Sizing Buffer Strips to Maintain Water Quality
Author: John Morris BrodersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Buffer zones (Ecosystem management)
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Buffer Strips and Water Quality
Author: Vegetated Buffer Strips and Water Quality in an Agricutural Watershed
Author: Justin D. KauffmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French Creek (Berks County and Chester County, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Effectiveness of Forest and Grass Buffer Strips in Improving the Water Quality of Manure Polluted Runoff
Author: R. C. DoyleBuffer Strips for Riparian Zone Management
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This study provides a review of technical literature concerning the width of riparian buffer strips needed to protect water quality and maintain other important values provided by riparian ecosystems. Under most circumstances (20 to 30 meter wide) buffers appear adequate to remove suspended sediments from surface flows. Narrow buffers may also reduce nitrogen levels in surface runoff and groundwater. There appears to be insufficient information available in the literature to formulate a matrix which completely relates appropriate buffer strip width to stream characteristics, upland land use, and riparian functions.