Since the early 1970’s, the most common approach to stormwater management in the United States has been to drain runoff from a developed site as quickly and efficiently as possible, and then detain this runoff and release ...

Many communities in the coalfield counties of southwest Virginia lack adequate and safe water supplies. The ability to develop affordable local water sources by using small water treatment plants is an attractive option ...

This report reviews activities conducted by the Academic Advisory Committee to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) between July and December 2006. Activities were conducted for the purpose of developing ...

This report of the Academic Advisory Committee (AAC) to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) contains information intended to aid DEQ’s development of nutrient criteria for the state of Virginia in a ...

This report describes an approach for establishing nutrient criteria in Virginia’s freshwater rivers and streams as recommended by the Academic Advisory Committee (AAC), an interdisciplinary team of scientists from Virginia’s ...

A rainfall simulator was used to study the effectiveness of three best management practices - no-till, residue level and fertilizer application technique - for reducing sediment, phosphorus, and pesticide losses from ...

To protect the designated uses of streams and rivers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) is directing states and authorized tribes to develop numeric criteria for nutrients. As a part of the efforts in ...