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Virginia's Stormwater Impact Evaluation: Developing an Optimization Tool for Improved Site Development, Selection and Placement of Stormwater Runoff BMPs
(Virginia Water Resources Research Center, 2009-01)
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 ...
Economic Analysis of Water Hauling for Southwest Virginia Communities
(Virginia Water Resources Research Center, 1998-11)
The Potential for Developing Mine Cavity Water for Water Supplies: Institutional and Water Quality Issues
(Virginia Water Resources Research Center, 1999-08)
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 ...
December 2006 Report of the Academic Advisory Committee to Virginia Department of Environmental Quality: Freshwater Nutrient Criteria for Rivers and Streams
(Virginia Water Resources Research Center, 2007-01-10)
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 ...
Issues Related to Freshwater Nutrient Criteria for Lakes and Reservoirs in Virginia
(Virginia Water Resources Research Center, 2005-04)
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 ...
Report of the Academic Advisory Committee to Virginia Department of Environmental Quality: Freshwater Nutrient Criteria for Rivers and Streams
(Virginia Water Resources Research Center, 2006-06-12)
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 ...
Effects of tillage system, crop residue level, and fertilizer application technique on losses of phosphorus and pesticides from agricultural lands
(Virginia Water Resources Research Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987-09)
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 ...
A Literature Review for use in Nutrient Criteria Development for Freshwater Streams and Rivers in Virginia
(Virginia Water Resources Research Center, 2006-02-15)
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 ...
Evaluation of rooftop rainfall collection-cistern storage systems in Southwest Virginia
(Virginia Water Resources Research Center, 1998)
The Virginia Small Water Systems Survey: An Assessment of Public Health Performance Appraisals
(Virginia Water Resources Research Center, 1999-10)