Water Quality Assessments in the Mississippi Delta: Regional Solutions, National Scope

by Mary T. Nett, Martin Locke, Dean Pennington

Overview

All 50 states are implementing mandates of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) assignments for contaminants likely to impact water in the United States, making water quality management a timely topic. TMDL criteria are a new initiative under the Clean Water Act and of critical importance to agricultural producers and state and federal regulators. Unfortunately, few precedents for assignment of pollutant maxima exist. This volume will show what one state (Mississippi) is doing to determine the most cost-effective and reliable practices for reducing the potential for non-point source pollution of U.S. waters. Readers may be able to apply some of the lessons learned in the Mississippi Delta Management Systems Evaluation Area (MDMSEA) to their own region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780841238121
Publisher:	American Chemical Society
Publication date:	04/16/2004
Series:	ACS Symposium Series , #877
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Water Quality Consulting

USDA-ARS

Yazoo Mississippi Delta Joint Water Management District

Table of Contents

1 Mississippi Delta Management Systems Evaluation Area: Overview of Water Quality Issues on a Watershed Scale. Martin Locke
2 Watershed Research of the United States Department of Agriculture: An Evolution in Mission. Matt Romkens and CW Richardson
3 Surface Water Quality in the Delta of Mississippi. Karrie Pennington
4 Agricultural Practices of the Mississippi Delta. Charles Snipes, Lisa Evans, Daniel Poston, Steve Nichols
5 Evaluation of Best Management Practices in the Mississippi Delta MSEA. Seth Dabney, Yongpin Yuan, Ron Binger
6 Groundwater Nutrients in the Beasley Lake Watershed of the Mississippi Delta MSEA. Seth Dabney, John Schreiber, Sammie Smith, Jr., and Scott Knight
7 Pesticides in Shallow Groundwater and Lake Water in the Mississippi Delta MSEA. Sammie Smith, Jr. and Charlie Cooper
8 Suspended Sediment and Agrochemicals in Runoff from Agricultural Systems in the Mississippi Delta: 1996-200. Richard Rebich
9 Evaluation of Watershed Management Practices and Oxbow Lake Ecology and Water Quality. Scott Knight and Terry Welch
10 Dynamics of Herbicide Metabolism. Robert Zablotowiz, Martin Locke, Robert Lerch, and Scott Knight
11 Precision Farming Technologies for Weed Control in the Mississippi Delta. James Hanks and Scott Knight
12 Fluometuron Adsorption to Soil Influenced by Best Management Practices (BMPs): Established Filter Strip and Riparian Zones. Mark Shankle, David Shaw, William Kingery, and Martin Locke
13 Spatial Variability of Cyanazine Dissipation in Soil from a Conservation-Managed Field. William Staddon, Martin Locke, and Robert Zablotowicz
14 The Role of Vegetated Drainage Ditch Research in the Mississippi Delta: Current Results and Future Directions. Matt Moore, Charlie Cooper, Erin Bennett, Sammie Smith, Jr., FD Shields, Jr., and Jerry Farris
15 Weed Populations as Related Conservation Tillage and Reduced Herbicide Management Systems: Mississippi Delta MSEA. Charles Byron and James Hanks
16 A Watershed-Based Bioeconomic Model of Best Management Practices in Mississippi. Diane Hite, Walaiporn Intarapapong, and Murat Isik
17 Herbicide and Nitrate in Surface and Ground Water: Results from the Iowa MESA. Thomas Moorman, Jerry Hatfield, and RS Kanwar
18 National Needs, Regional Solutions: The Development of Site-Specific Assessments of Pesticides in Water Resources. R. Don Wauchope, Timothy Strickland, and Martin Locke