Assessment of Rural Nonpoint Source Pollution
Author : Environmental Research Information Center
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 33,47 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Nonpoint source pollution
ISBN :
Nonpoint Source News-notes
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 28,74 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Nonpoint source pollution
ISBN :
Book Description
Watershed Management for Potable Water Supply
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 12,5 MB
Release : 2000-02-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0309172683
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.
Perspectives on Nonpoint Source Pollution
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 41,73 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Agricultural pollution
ISBN :
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Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution
Author : William F. Ritter
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 2000-12-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781420033083
Book Description
If you work in the water quality management field, you know the challenges of monitoring and controlling pollutants in our water supply. The increasing problem of agricultural nonpoint source pollution requires complex solutions. Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution: Watershed Management and Hydrology covers the latest techniques and methods of managing large watershed areas, with an emphasis on controlling non-point source pollution, especially from agricultural run-off. Written by leading experts, the book includes topics such as: nitrate and phosphorus pollution, pesticide contamination, erosion and sedimentation, water-table management, and watershed management. The authors discuss the effects of agricultural run-off - one of the most intransigent problems now faced by environmental engineers and hydrologists. They explore each issue with an eye towards the integrated management of water quality and water resources over a defined area or region. This single-source reference gives you a complete understanding of the whats, whys, and hows of nonpoint source pollution - and more importantly of how to monitor and manage it. Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution: Watershed Management and Hydrology provides a broad but detailed overview that helps you to comprehend the intricacies of the problem and puts you on the path to finding the answers.
Predicting Soil Erosion by Water
Author : Kenneth G. Renard
Publisher :
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Geophysical prediction
ISBN :
Book Description
Introduction and history; Rainfall-runoff erosivity factor (R); Soil erodibility factor (K); Slope length and steepness factors (LS); Cover-management factor (C); Support practice factor (P); RUSLE user guide; Coversion to SI metric system; Calculation of EI from recording-raingage records; Estimating random roughness in the field; Parameter values for major agricultural crops and tillage operations.
Water Quality Assessments
Author : Deborah V Chapman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 1996-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0419215905
Book Description
This guidebook, now thoroughly updated and revised in its second edition, gives comprehensive advice on the designing and setting up of monitoring programmes for the purpose of providing valid data for water quality assessments in all types of freshwater bodies. It is clearly and concisely written in order to provide the essential information for all agencies and individuals responsible for the water quality.
Urban Stormwater Management in the United States
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2009-03-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0309125391
Book Description
The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries. These changes have degraded water quality and habitat in virtually every urban stream system. The Clean Water Act regulatory framework for addressing sewage and industrial wastes is not well suited to the more difficult problem of stormwater discharges. This book calls for an entirely new permitting structure that would put authority and accountability for stormwater discharges at the municipal level. A number of additional actions, such as conserving natural areas, reducing hard surface cover (e.g., roads and parking lots), and retrofitting urban areas with features that hold and treat stormwater, are recommended.
From Source Water to Drinking Water
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 45,20 MB
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0309165520
Book Description
The Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine was established in 1988 as a mechanism for bringing the various stakeholders together to discuss environmental health issues in a neutral setting. The members of the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine come from academia, industry, and government. Their perspectives range widely and represent the diverse viewpoints of researchers, federal officials, and consumers. They meet, discuss environmental health issues that are of mutual interest, and bring others together to discuss these issues as well. For example, they regularly convene workshops to help facilitate discussion of a particular topic. The Rountable's fifth national workshop entitled From Source Water to Drinking Water: Ongoing and Emerging Challenges for Public Health continued the theme established by previous Roundtable workshops, looking at rebuilding the unity of health and the environment. This workshop summary captures the discussions and presentations by the speakers and participants, who identified the areas in which additional research was needed, the processes by which changes could occur, and the gaps in our knowledge.
The California Nitrogen Assessment
Author : Thomas P. Tomich
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0520962230
Book Description
Nitrogen is indispensable to all life on Earth. However, humans now dominate the nitrogen cycle, and nitrogen emissions from human activity have real costs: water and air pollution, climate change, and detrimental effects on human health, biodiversity, and natural habitats. Too little nitrogen limits ecosystem processes, while too much nitrogen transforms ecosystems profoundly. The California Nitrogen Assessment is the first comprehensive account of nitrogen flows, practices, and policies for California, encompassing all nitrogen flows—not just those associated with agriculture—and their impacts on ecosystem services and human wellbeing. How California handles nitrogen issues will be of interest nationally and internationally, and the goal of the assessment is to link science with action and to produce information that affects both future policy and solutions for addressing nitrogen pollution. This book also provides a model for application of integrated ecosystem assessment methods at regional and state (subnational) levels.
