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Targeting HUC 12s with Water Samples & Windshields

Published by the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, St. Joseph, Michigan www.asabe.org

Citation:  TMDL 2010: Watershed Management to Improve Water Quality Proceedings, 14-17 November 2010 Hyatt Regency Baltimore on the Inner Harbor, Baltimore, Maryland USA  711P0710cd.(doi:10.13031/2013.35758)
Authors:   Stacie L Minson, James A Leiker, Dustin A Fross, Thomas L Stiles
Keywords:   Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC), Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL), Best Management Practice (BMP), Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Sediment, E coli bacteria, Water Quality Monitoring, Targeting, Impairments, Common Land Units (CLU), Subwatershed, Modeling

The Big Creek Middle Smoky Hill River Watershed Restoration And Protection Strategies (WRAPS) project started in 2003 to protect and improve water resources draining into Kanopolis Reservoir. Kanopolis has a state designated use for municipal and industrial water and supplies 400 million gallons per year to the service area. Its watershed drainage of 2,439 square miles (or two Hydrologic Unit Code (HUC) 8s), with limited historical characterization, presents problems in determining origination of total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP), total suspended solids (TSS)/sediment, and E. coli bacteria; thus creating the need for extensive water quality monitoring, subwatershed (HUC 12) condition analysis, and Best Management Practices (BMPs) targeting.

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