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Erosion and Sediment Control Manual
2013-12-19 18:55:11| PortlandOnline
Updated March 2008 PDF Document, 5,430kbCategory: Manuals and CADD Support
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Conservation Practices Reduce Runoff of Nutrients, Sediment in Chesapeake Bay Watershed
2013-12-13 12:14:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture A record number of voluntary conservation practices adopted by Chesapeake Bay farmers since 2006 have significantly reduced the amount of nitrogen, sediment and phosphorus leaving cultivated croplands, according to a recent report released by the U.S. Deparment of Agriculture (USDA). read more
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Farmers reduce sediment, nutrient runoff with conservation efforts
2013-08-27 22:30:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Source: USDA A USDA assessment shows benefits of farmer-led conservation efforts to reducing runoff, Agriculture Secretary highlights the need for conservation programs provided by a Food, Farm and Jobs Bill A new report, released by USDA's NRCS this week, marks the completion of a watershed-wide assessment of conservation efforts in the Mississippi River watershed. Its findings demonstrate that conservation work, like controlling erosion and managing nutrients, has reduced the edge-of-field losses of sediment by 35%, nitrogen by 21% and phosphorous by 52%. read more
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Sediment Tests Will Show If Mayflower Residents Saved Their Treasured Lake from Oil Spill
2013-08-14 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Anything for his treasured fishing hole. That was the mantra cycling through Jimmy Joe Johnson's head on the afternoon of Friday, March 29 as he rushed to keep a filthy stream of crude oil from spilling out of a cove and into the main body of Lake Conway. Standing at the edge of the lake more than four months later, Johnson had his fingers crossed that his efforts that day weren't for naught. Officials with the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) [3] say they feel certain that soon-to-come...
ADEQ is (finally) testing the sediment between Mayflower pipeline break and Lake Conway
2013-07-31 02:27:15| Waste Management - Topix.net
Confident that the emergency portion of the Mayflower oil and chemical spill cleanup has ended, the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality is testing sediment along the path that oil and chemicals traveled toward, if not indeed into, Lake Conway.
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