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Georgia Agricultural Water Quality Watershed Assessment
Georgia Agricultural Water Quality Watershed Assessment
Author(s)
Bramblett, Jimmy R.
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Editor(s)
Hatcher, Kathryn J.
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Abstract
Increasing concerns over water quality in
the past five years have focused more attention on
agriculture, and it's potential for non-point source [NPS] pollution. A small number of agricultural
operations not adhering to a sound conservation ethic can encourage more regulations for all agricultural
operations. When this happens, many producers
become unfair targets for remediation efforts at the
agricultural producer's expense. The lack of reliable data at the watershed scale is serving to fuel this debate. Total Maximum' Daily Loads [TMDLs] are
being developed using outdated or insufficient
agricultural data. The Agricultural Water Quality
Watershed Assessment [AWQWA] is a resource
inventory and analysis process designed to improve
watershed scale estimates of farm management and its influence on agricultural NPS. Following the Georgia
Environmental Protection Division's River Basin Planning Schedule, AWQWA generates watershed scale estimates of agriculturally based Fecal Coliform,
Total Nitrogen, Nitrate, Ammonium, Total
Phosphorus, and Sediment for each of Georgia's 357
10-digit watersheds over the next five years.
Sponsor
Sponsored and Organized by: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Natural Resources Conservation Service, The University of Georgia, Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology
Date Issued
2001-03
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