History of Innovative Best Management Practice Development and its Role in Addressing Water Quality Limited Waterbodies

Ice, George G.

doi:10.1061/(asce)0733-9372(2004)130:6(684)

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“…While previous research clearly supports the premise that forest roads and stream crossings with inadequate or poorly implemented BMPs can accelerate soil erosion and, potentially, sedimentation, numerous research reviews have concluded that BMPs [4,7,[45][46][47], minimum standard roads [48] low-impact harvesting [49], reduced-impact logging [50], or similar techniques can be used to reduce soil erosion and sedimentation. Following the passage of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, state forestry agencies developed Forestry BMPs [45,46] specifically designed to minimize the erosion and sediment associated with forest operations with major emphases on forest roads, skid trails, and stream crossings [7,[45][46][47]51,52].…”

Section: Forestry Bmps and Roadsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Estimating Costs and Effectiveness of Upgrades in Forestry Best Management Practices for Stream Crossings

Nolan

Aust

Barrett

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Forestry Best Management Practices (BMPs) are used for protection of water quality at forest stream crossings, yet effects and costs for gradients of BMPs are not well documented. We evaluated forty-two truck road and skid trail stream crossings using three surrogates of BMP adequacy: (1) potential erosion rates for stream crossing approaches; (2) adequacy of stream crossing BMPs; and (3) overall BMP rating (BMP´, BMP-standard, and BMP+). Subsequently, BMP upgrades were recommended for enhancing BMP´or BMP-standard stream crossings. Costs for BMP upgrades were estimated using an existing road and skid trail cost method. The majority of truck road stream crossings were culverts, while skid trail stream crossings were primarily portable bridges. Potential erosion estimates, BMP audit scores, and BMP ratings all indicated that skid crossings have lower BMP implementation than truck road crossings. BMP improvements commonly identified for skid trail and truck crossings included addition of cover and water control structures. Improved BMPs at skid trail crossings were less expensive than those at truck road crossings. Current BMP guidelines provide economical and effective techniques for reducing erosion, and BMP upgrades have the potential to reduce erosion rates to similar levels found in undisturbed forests.

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Section: Forestry Bmps and Roadsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Following the passage of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, state forestry agencies developed Forestry BMPs [45,46] specifically designed to minimize the erosion and sediment associated with forest operations with major emphases on forest roads, skid trails, and stream crossings [7,[45][46][47]51,52].…”

Section: Forestry Bmps and Roadsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Estimating Costs and Effectiveness of Upgrades in Forestry Best Management Practices for Stream Crossings

Nolan

Aust

Barrett

et al. 2015

Water

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“…Forest soils provide the perfect conditions for creating high quality water supplies [6]. Research using paired catchments provides the scientific basis for understanding disturbance effects in forests and led to development of Best Management Practices (BMPs) for sustaining water quality [10].…”

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Long-Term Forest Paired Catchment Studies: What Do They Tell Us That Landscape-Level Monitoring Does Not?

Neary

2016

Forests

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Forested catchments throughout the world are known for producing high quality water for human use. In the 20th Century, experimental forest catchment studies played a key role in studying the processes contributing to high water quality. The hydrologic processes investigated on these paired catchments have provided the science base for examining water quality responses to natural disturbances such as wildfire, insect outbreaks, and extreme hydrologic events, and human-induced disturbances such as timber harvesting, site preparation, prescribed fires, fertilizer applications, pesticide usage, rainfall acidification, and mining. This paper compares and contrasts the paired catchment approach with landscape-level water resource monitoring to highlight the information on hydrologic processes provided by the paired catchment approach that is not provided by the broad-brush landscape monitoring.

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“…There is a precedent for effective industrial self-regulation in Texas, where forest practices like clearcutting along intermittent and perennial streams are not regulated by state or federal environmental agencies. After research demonstrated that clearcutting could have significant impacts on water resources [23], voluntary BMPs that restrict forest harvesting along streams were adopted by the forest industry in Texas by the mid-1980s. After an extensive education and outreach campaign, 98% of forestry activities in Texas voluntarily retained streamside buffers by 2011 [8].…”

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Soil Erosion and Surface Water Quality Impacts of Natural Gas Development in East Texas, USA

McBroom

Thomas

Zhang

2012

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Due to greater demands for hydrocarbons and improvements in drilling technology, development of oil and natural gas in some regions of the United States has increased dramatically. A 1.4 ha natural gas well pad was constructed in an intermittent stream channel at the Alto Experimental Watersheds in East Texas, USA (F1), while another 1.1 ha well pad was offset about 15 m from a nearby intermittent stream (F2). V-notch weirs were constructed downstream of these well pads and stream sedimentation and water quality was measured. For the 2009 water year, about 11.76 cm, or almost 222% more runoff resulted from F1 than F2. Sediment yield was significantly greater at F1, with 13,972 kg ha ). Significantly greater nitrogen and phosphorus losses were measured at F1 than F2. While oil and gas development can degrade surface water quality, appropriate conservation practices like retaining streamside buffers can mitigate these impacts.

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History of Innovative Best Management Practice Development and its Role in Addressing Water Quality Limited Waterbodies

Cited by 121 publications

References 3 publications

Estimating Costs and Effectiveness of Upgrades in Forestry Best Management Practices for Stream Crossings

Estimating Costs and Effectiveness of Upgrades in Forestry Best Management Practices for Stream Crossings

Long-Term Forest Paired Catchment Studies: What Do They Tell Us That Landscape-Level Monitoring Does Not?

Soil Erosion and Surface Water Quality Impacts of Natural Gas Development in East Texas, USA

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