Agricultural best management practices and water quality in the Bush River watershed, Virginia

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dc.contributorVirginia Agricultural Experiment Stationen
dc.contributor.authorSmolen, M. D.en
dc.contributor.authorYagow, Eugene R.en
dc.contributor.authorYounos, Tamim M.en
dc.contributor.departmentVirginia Agricultural Experiment Stationen
dc.coverage.countryUnited Statesen
dc.coverage.stateVirginiaen
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-07T20:15:05Zen
dc.date.available2015-08-07T20:15:05Zen
dc.date.issued1984-07en
dc.description.abstractThis project was developed as part of the implementation phase of the PL 92-500 Section 208 Program for control of nonpoint pollution from agricultural sources. The project objective was to determine the effect of Best Management Practices on sediment and nutrient yields in agricultural watersheds. The research consisted of field monitoring at two small watershed sites in the Bush River basin, near Farmville, Virginia. One watershed used Best Management Practices (BMP Watershed) consisting of contour strip cropping in combination with crop rotation and sod waterways. The second watershed, with conventional management ( CONV Watershed), was approximately half agricultural and half forested. Concurrent with the small watershed monitoring study, a weekly sampling program was maintained to evaluate the ambient water quality on the main tributary system of the Bush River. The results of the study include the first field-based quantification of sediment yield and delivery ratios in this area. Although the results of this study are not conclusive, the agricultural watershed with recommended Best Management Practices tended to produce reduced levels of gross erosion, runoff, and sediment and nutrient yields. Sediment delivery ratios were compared with several alternative estimation techniques. Particle size distributions, nutrient enrichment ratios and sediment delivery ratios estimated in this study may be useful in computing nonpoint pollution effects of agricultural land use in the Southeastern Piedmont of the United States. The ambient data developed in this study may be useful in the future to estimate the effect of a planned PL-566 Conservation Plan that is being implemented on the Bush River watershed.en
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityM.D. Smolen, E.R. Yagow, and T.M. Younosen
dc.format.extentviii, 86 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.oclc11536951en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/56286en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Agricultural Experiment Stationen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesBulletin (Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station : 1981) , 84-5en
dc.rightsVirginia Agricultural Experiment Station materials are available for public use, re-print, or citation without further permission, provided the use includes credit to the author and to the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station and Virginia Tech.en
dc.subject.lccS123 .E22en
dc.subject.lcshWater quality -- Virginia -- Bush River Watersheden
dc.subject.lcshWater quality management -- Virginiaen
dc.titleAgricultural best management practices and water quality in the Bush River watershed, Virginiaen
dc.typeExtension publicationen
dc.typePeriodicalen
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