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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"BMP implementation"”.
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Potential Effects of Forestry Best Management Practices and Implementation Rates on Soil and Water Resources in the Southeastern United States
Forestry Best Management Practices (BMPs) include guidelines, recommendations, and protocols utilized to protect forest water quality from nonpoint source pollutants (NPSP). Sediment is the most common NPSP associated with forest operations, and BMPs are implemented primarily to reduce erosion and …
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Efficacy of operational stream crossing best management practices on truck roads and skid trails in the Mountains, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain of Virginia
Forestry best management practices (BMPs) programs were developed by individual states in response to the Clean Water Act in order to protect water quality during and after timber harvests. Our research goals are to compare BMP implementation at stream crossings by region and road type in Virginia …
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Operational characteristics, erosion potential, and implementation of forestry best management practices on biomass harvesting operations
… evaluate potential impacts on soil erosion and implementation of Best Management Practices (BMPs) for water quality on biomass harvesting sites. Results indicate that biomass harvesting was integrated into a wide range of logging businesses. Existing biomass harvesting businesses reported total …
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Spring Studies and A Decision-Making Process to Guide Groundwater Contamination Prevention in an Agricultural Karst Basin
… to determine where best management practices (BMPs) could result in the most effective water quality improvement. Water quality variables including fecal coliform density and fecal coliform loading were used to develop a methodology for prioritizing the monitored sites for BMP implementation. …
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Effectiveness, cost, and implications of forest haul road stream crossing structures and best management practices in Virginia
… to forest road Best Management Practices (BMPs). Three legacy (100 year old) forest road stream crossings were monitored for suspended sediment for nine months before and six months after upgrading three unimproved ford crossings with one bridge, one culvert, and one improved ford. During …
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES ON WATER QUALITY IN THE ATTOYAC BAYOU WATERSHED OF EAST TEXAS
… Protection Plan, best management practices (BMPs) were developed for livestock, wildlife, and on-site sewage facilities (OSSFs), using bacteria source tracking (BST), spatially explicit load enrichment calculation tool (SELECT) model, as well as a cost benefit analysis. An evaluation of these …
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Effects of forest harvesting best management practices on surface water quality in the Virginia coastal plain
… of forestry best management practices (BMPs) for minimizing hydrologic and water quality impacts associated with timber harvesting. One watershed was clear-cut without implementation of BMPs, one watershed was clear-cut with the implementation of BMPs and the third watershed was left …
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Evaluating Energywood Harvesting Operations in The Lower Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States
… water quality best management practices (BMPs), increased area in road network features due to increased machine trafficking, and reduced quantities of residual woody debris. Energywood harvesting operations have been established in the lower Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. for several …
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Evaluating the Effects of Watershed Land Use Distribution and BMP Data on HSPF Water Quality Predictions
… of site-specific and county-level disaggregated BMP data on modeled BMP responses in HSPF-predicted flow, sediment, TN and TP loads at the watershed level, and 3) analyze the long-term effects of the two spatial BMP datasets on achieving the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) goals …
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Exploring the response of urban storm sewer system to the implementation of green roofs
… popularity of Best Management Practices (BMPs), research about the effect of BMP implementation on the hydrologic response of urban watersheds has become a hot topic. Green roofs, which have been reported as an effective means of reducing urban storm water runoff, have been widely used in …
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Application of a nonpoint source pollution model to a small watershed in Virginia
… for evaluating the long-term impact of various BMP’s. Critical areas in the watershed, which are responsible for majority of the pollutant loadings, were identified by the model using the annulization procedure. A FORTRAN program was developed to convery critical areas for individual events to …
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Impact of best management practices on water quality in the Nomini Creek Watershed
… quantify the water quality impacts of cropland BMP implementation in a watershed with a complex landuse. The data collected during the project included landuse, hydrologic, water quality, soils, and geographical data. The goal of this study was to conduct a detailed analysis of the data …
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Opportunities for Standardization in Monitoring of Best Management Practices in the Southeastern United States
… that state agencies can use to standardize their BMP implementation monitoring methods.
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Three essays on environmental issues associated with broiler production in Louisiana
… First, I evaluate why some producers adopt BMP faster than others and what kind of factors affect the time to adoption decision. The duration model is employed to allow the censored observation while evaluating the impact of farm and individual specific characteristics on time to adoption …
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Implications of Best Management Practices on Channel Evolution within the Bad River Watershed: West Central South Dakota
… funding to implement best management practices (BMPs) in critical locations. The lower Bad River Basin has been identified as the major contributor of sediment to the Bad River main channel and Lake Sharpe, a Missouri River main stem reservoir, while the upper Bad River Basin has been determined …
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A Methodology for Planning Road Best Management Practices Combining WEPP: Road Erosion Modeling and Simulated Annealing Optimization
… physical Best Management Practices (BMPs) are implemented, sometimes with no knowledge of erosion hot spots. With the need to minimize water quality impacts while at the same time accounting for multiple considerations and constraints, road BMP planning at the watershed scale is a …
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A Methodology for Planning Road Best Management Practices Combining WEPP: Road Erosion Modeling and Simulated Annealing Optimization
… physical Best Management Practices (BMPs) are implemented, sometimes with no knowledge of erosion hot spots. With the need to minimize water quality impacts while at the same time accounting for multiple considerations and constraints, road BMP planning at the watershed scale is a …
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Post-implementation re-assessment of agricultural best management practices on watersheds of Conesus Lake: Effects on stream water chemistry and aquatic macroinvertebrate communities
… (EPA). Agricultural best management practices (BMPs) are intended to improve water quality, reduce sediment and nutrient runoff, and remediate the effects of altered hydrology. BMPs were installed in the early 2000s in the Conesus Lake watershed and have shown initial success in reducing …
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Effectiveness of State Developed and Implemented Forestry Best Management Practices in the United States
… Act of 1972 required states to develop forestry BMPs to help reduce potential nonpoint source pollution from forest operations. Properly applied forestry best management practices (BMPs) have since been proven to protect water quality from forest operations. This research project reviewed BMP …
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Impact of Animal Waste Best Management Practices on the Bacteriological Quality of Surface Water
… 1986 to examine the effects of a combination of BMPs on surface water quality within a watershed with complex land use. This research specifically examined bacteriological water quality and BMP impacts. Bimonthly grab samples were collected from four surface water monitoring stations, including …
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