Author: Christopher Anand ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Hydrology of Phosphorus Transport in Watersheds of Mixed Agricultural and Forest Land Use
Author: Christopher Anand ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309679702
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
New York City's municipal water supply system provides about 1 billion gallons of drinking water a day to over 8.5 million people in New York City and about 1 million people living in nearby Westchester, Putnam, Ulster, and Orange counties. The combined water supply system includes 19 reservoirs and three controlled lakes with a total storage capacity of approximately 580 billion gallons. The city's Watershed Protection Program is intended to maintain and enhance the high quality of these surface water sources. Review of the New York City Watershed Protection Program assesses the efficacy and future of New York City's watershed management activities. The report identifies program areas that may require future change or action, including continued efforts to address turbidity and responding to changes in reservoir water quality as a result of climate change.
Phosphorus Transport in Rivers
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Category : Phosphorus
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
The research work contained in this report concerns the transport of total phosphorus and orthophosphorus to Lake Erie. The various calculational techniques for analyzing data obtained from Lake Erie tributaries are presented. These calculations were developed to determine the source of the phosphorus and to quantify the input to the lake. The source and quantity of phosphorus devised for Lake Erie. The first section of this report presents the basic concepts, mass balances (that applied to the water and that applied to the phosphorus), and force relationships. The second section of this report concerns the quantification of total phosphorus input to Lake Erie river basins and shortline sources. A computational method called the Flow Interval Method was devised to permit the calculaion of total phosphorus influx without measuring the total phosphorus concentration for the entire year. Another important aspect of reducing total phosphorus influx from river basins is the understanding of the transport processes in rivers. The third section of this report concerns the transport of total phosphorus during storm events. The fourth section of this report presents the derivation of the necessary equations used to calculate the distance of the travel density function form measurements of the water flow rate and the total phosphorus concentrations at a point in the stream.
Watershed Buffering of Anthropogenic Phosphorus Pressure
Author: Anna KusmerPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
"Phosphorus (P) is a non-renewable resource that is an essential element for agricultural crop production. However, when excess P enters fresh and coastal water systems, it can result in undesirable impacts such as the excessive growth of algae species and oxygen depletion. Millions of tonnes of P are applied to agricultural lands every year in the form of phosphate fertilizer to increase yields. While some of this P is taken up by crops, much is left on the land, and this P has a tendency to stay in the soil, which results in a build-up of P in agricultural landscapes that can last years or even centuries. This build-up of historic P inputs, also known as "legacy P", represents a threat to surrounding water bodies because erosion and runoff processes can transport P-enriched soils to water systems.The processes that transport P from upland soils to water bodies are varied depending on the biological and biophysical features of the landscape as well as the human management features of the landscape. Together, these features mediate the residence time of P in the soils and landscape. The ability of a watershed to retain historic P inputs is its "buffering capacity", its ability to buffer the water quality from the impact of current and historic P inputs to the watershed. In this thesis, I ask, "how does buffering capacity vary among watersheds in southern Quebec over a thirty-year period of intensive farming?" and "which watershed characteristics impact watersheds' buffering capacity and the transport of legacy P from land to water systems?"I used two different methods to determine the buffering capacity of watersheds. One method compares the long-term P accumulation of a watershed to current day riverine P flux values. I call this the Buffering Index (BI). The other method, known as Extended End-Member Mixing Analysis (E-EMMA) uses hydrological modeling to estimate the degree to which P is retained and released by watershed ecosystems as water moves through the landscape. These two values were calculated for sixteen different watersheds in the Saint Lawrence Basin, in Quebec, Canada, spanning a thirty-year period (1981-2011). I then compared these values to geochemical, hydrological, landscape, and socio-ecological factors to determine which factors are important in predicting buffering capacity. All of the study watersheds have been accumulating P in their soils throughout the study period. My comparison of average riverine P flux values with average NAPI values showed that the study watersheds retained, on average, between 58% and 97% of net imported P in a given year. In general, watersheds with more P accumulation have higher riverine P flux; however, in many watersheds, riverine P flux has decreased over the study period, despite the fact that the amount of P accumulation in the watersheds has continued to mount over this time. I found a range of BI and E-EMMA values among the watersheds, along with a range of geochemical, hydrological, landscape, and socio-ecological characteristics. There was no correlation between the two buffering metrics calculated for the watersheds suggesting that these two metrics measure different buffering phenomena. However, each of the buffering indicators correlate with various watershed characteristics. This suggests that geochemistry, hydrology, and landscape features may, indeed, play a role in determining various aspects of the overall buffering capacity of watersheds. Determining which landscape features impact agricultural landscape buffering capacity can help us to understand how landscapes can be managed to increase their resilience to external pressure and identify leverage points for more holistic land management. A greater understanding of how buffering capacity is conferred on a watershed can also help identify which watersheds are particularly vulnerable to P pressure that could arise from changes in land use, including agricultural intensification and urbanization. " --
Land Use, Seasonal, and Drought Effects on Phosphorus from Owasco Lake Tributaries
Author: Maria Sol LisboaPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Non-point source pollution (NPS), especially from agricultural runoff, is a leading contributor to water quality impairments in the U.S. Lately, attention to nutrient pollution, specially to phosphorus, has arisen due to disturbing increases in seasonal toxic blue-green algal blooms. To improve our understanding of how land use and seasonal weather patterns impact runoff and nutrient loading in temperate areas, we investigated the effect of different land uses on P inputs into Owasco Lake, in central NY. In addition, the inputs were evaluated in the context of a prolonged drought that affected the northeastern U.S. during 2016. Monitoring of base and high flow conditions was conducted between December 2015 and November 2016 at sites located along twelve tributaries to the lake, representing the dominating land uses in the watershed (i.e.: agriculture and forest). Small watersheds were chosen to be able to isolate impacts of particular land uses. The results show a strong interaction of seasonal and land use effects, with the drought event masking the effect of agricultural and mixed land use on P loads; and with the highest loads registering during the first rain event after the drought, exacerbating the agricultural impact on water quality. These findings are an important contribution from a management perspective, as projections for the Northeast US suggest that, although total precipitation will remain relatively stable, summer rains are likely to become concentrated in fewer events of higher intensities, interspaced with more prolonged dry periods. We consider it absolutely critical to incorporate detailed timing management practices for fertilizer and/or manure application relative to runoff producing storm events, in order to mitigate climate extremes impact on water quality.
Dissertation Abstracts International
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
Historical Contributions of Phosphorus from Natural and Agricultural Sources and Implications for Stream Water Quality, Cheney Reservoir Watershed, South-central Kansas
Author: Larry M. PopePublisher:
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Category : Phosphorus
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Water Quality, Hydrology, and the Effects of Changes in Phosphorus Loading to Pike Lake, Washington County, Wisconsin, with Special Emphasis on Inlet-to-outlet Short-circuiting
Author: William J. RosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Clean Coastal Waters
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309069483
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Environmental problems in coastal ecosystems can sometimes be attributed to excess nutrients flowing from upstream watersheds into estuarine settings. This nutrient over-enrichment can result in toxic algal blooms, shellfish poisoning, coral reef destruction, and other harmful outcomes. All U.S. coasts show signs of nutrient over-enrichment, and scientists predict worsening problems in the years ahead. Clean Coastal Waters explains technical aspects of nutrient over-enrichment and proposes both immediate local action by coastal managers and a longer-term national strategy incorporating policy design, classification of affected sites, law and regulation, coordination, and communication. Highlighting the Gulf of Mexico's "Dead Zone," the Pfiesteria outbreak in a tributary of Chesapeake Bay, and other cases, the book explains how nutrients work in the environment, why nitrogen is important, how enrichment turns into over-enrichment, and why some environments are especially susceptible. Economic as well as ecological impacts are examined. In addressing abatement strategies, the committee discusses the importance of monitoring sites, developing useful models of over-enrichment, and setting water quality goals. The book also reviews voluntary programs, mandatory controls, tax incentives, and other policy options for reducing the flow of nutrients from agricultural operations and other sources.
Author: Wells Dean Hively