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Rituraj Shukla, Ramesh Rudra, Prasad Daggupati, Colin Little, Alamgir Khan, Pradeep Goel and Shiv Prasher
The effectiveness of existing and potential best management practices (BMPs) to cropped lands in the Jeannette Creek watershed (Thames River basin, Ontario, Canada) in reducing P loads at its pumped outlets was assessed using the Soil and Water Assessmen...
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Kevin MacKenzie, Steve Auger, Sara Beitollahpour and Bahram Gharabaghi
Stream corridor erosion can majorly contribute to the overall sediment and phosphorus load in urbanizing watersheds. However, the relative contribution of stream bed and bank erosion, compared with upland watershed sources and the potential for stream re...
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Will L. Varela, Neal D. Mundahl, Silas Bergen, David F. Staples, Jennifer Cochran-Biederman and Cole R. Weaver
Agricultural activities within watersheds can have negative effects on river ecosystems, but numerous conservation practices can be implemented that reduce soil erosion, increase water infiltration, slow runoff, and improve soil quality. Our study focuse...
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Mulugeta Admas, Assefa M. Melesse, Brook Abate and Getachew Tegegne
This study evaluated the best management practices on how to manage soil losses from catchment and reduce sediment load into a dam reservoir. This study aimed to evaluate the relationship of runoff, soil loss, and sediment yield with best management prac...
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Vivek Venishetty, Prem B. Parajuli and Dipesh Nepal
Best management practices (BMPs) are management operations that reduce pollution and improve water quality. This study assessed the spatial variability of BMPs effectiveness within the Yazoo River Watershed (YRW) using Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWA...
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Yogesh Khare, Ghinwa Melodie Naja, G. Andrew Stainback, Christopher J. Martinez, Rajendra Paudel and Thomas Van Lent
Achieving total phosphorus (TP) total maximum daily loads (TMDL) for Lake Okeechobee (Florida, FL, USA), a large freshwater lake, is a key component of the greater Everglades ecosystem restoration and sustainability of south Florida. This study was aimed...
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Yongbo Liu, Wanhong Yang, Hui Shao, Zhiqiang Yu and John Lindsay
A GIS-based fully-distributed model, IMWEBs-Wetland (Integrated Modelling for Watershed Evaluation of BMPs?Wetland), is developed to simulate hydrologic processes of site-specific wetlands in an agricultural watershed. This model, powered by the open-sou...
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Martina Sobotkova, Jaromir Dusek, Ghasem Alavi, Laxman Sharma and Chittaranjan Ray
The coastal waters of Hawaii are extremely important for recreation as well as for the health of the marine environment. Non-point source pollution from storm runoff poses a great threat to surface water quality in Hawaii. The State of Hawaii Department ...
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Brooke M. Warrington, W. Michael Aust, Scott M. Barrett, W. Mark Ford, C. Andrew Dolloff, Erik B. Schilling, T. Bently Wigley and M. Chad Bolding
Forestry best management practices (BMPs) were developed to minimize water pollution from forestry operations by primarily addressing sediment and sediment transport, which is the leading source of pollution from silviculture. Implementation of water qua...
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Abdolreza Osouli, Azadeh Akhavan Bloorchian, Mark Grinter, Aneseh Alborzi, Scott L. Marlow, Laurent Ahiablame and Jianpeng Zhou
Roads and developed land can alter hydrologic pathways, cause erosion, and increase pollution to nearby waters. Best management practices (BMPs) are commonly used to reduce adverse effects of post-construction runoff. This study is focused on providing p...
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