Optimizing Patterns of Land Use to Reduce Peak Runoff Flow and Nonpoint Source Pollution with an Integrated Hydrological and Land-Use Model

Yeo, In‐Young; Gordon, Steven I.; Guldmann, Jean‐Michel

doi:10.1175/1087-3562(2004)008<0001:opolut>2.0.co;2

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“…There are limitations in increasing the capacity of the existing drainage because of land availability and high tide levels (Zope et al, 2015). Storm and catchment characteristics influence the hydrological response (Yeo et al, 2004;Kalantari et al, 2014). Sharma et al (2001) evaluated the hydrological response on runoff considering the impact of soil, water conservation, alternative land use and management practices by prioritizing watersheds on the basis of runoff generated.…”

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Impacts of land use–land cover change and urbanization on flooding: A case study of Oshiwara River Basin in Mumbai, India

Zope

Eldho

Jothiprakash

2016

CATENA

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Impacts of land use–land cover change and urbanization on flooding: A case study of Oshiwara River Basin in Mumbai, India

Zope

Eldho

Jothiprakash

2016

CATENA

214

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“…Cover crops may improve the hydrology of watersheds by reducing peak stream flow/ runoff and erosion through decreased surface sealing, increased infiltration, increased surface roughness, increased evapotranspiration, and increased available water storage capacity of soil (Dabney 1998;Unger and Vigil 1998;Mitchell et al 1999;Kaspar and Singer 2011). Increased stream flow during storms contributes to increased nonpoint source pollution, increased flooding, and reduced ecological health (Yeo et al 2004;Roy et al 2005;Walsh et al 2005). Surface runoff may be considered the leading cause of increased streamflow, but tile drainage can approach or exceed surface runoff amounts (Chung et al 1992;Drury et al 1993).…”

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Cover crops in the upper midwestern United States: Simulated effect on nitrate leaching with artificial drainage

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Jaynes²,

Kaspar³

et al. 2014

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

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A fall-planted winter cover crop is an agricultural management practice with multiple benefits that may include reducing nitrate (NO 3 ) losses from artificial drained agricultural fields. While the practice is commonly used in the southern and eastern United States, little is known about its efficacy in midwestern states where winters are longer and colder, and artificial subsurface drainage is widely used in corn-soybean systems (Zea mays L.-Glycine max L.). We used a field-tested version of the Root Zone Water Quality Model (RZWQM) to simulate the adoption of cereal rye (Secale cereale L.) as a winter cover crop and estimate its impact on NO 3 losses from drained fields at 41 sites across the Midwest from 1961 to 2005. The average annual nitrogen (N) loss reduction from adding winter rye ranged from 11.7 to 31.8 kg N ha -1 (10.4 to 28.4 lb N ac -1 ) among four simulated systems. One of the simulated treatments was winter rye overseeded (aerial seeded) into a no-till corn-soybean rotation at simulated main crop maturity (CC2). On average, this treatment reduced simulated N loss in drainage by 20.1 kg N ha -1 (17.9 lb N ac -1 ) over the sites compared to systems without winter rye (NCC2), from 47.3 to 27.2 kg N ha -1 (42.2 to 24.3 lb N ac -1 ). Adding spring tillage to this treatment and killing the rye earlier (CC3) reduced simulated N loss from 57.3 (NCC3) to 34.4 kg N ha -1 (30.7 lb N ac -1 ). Replacing the corn-soybean rotation with continuous corn and spring tillage reduced simulated N loss from 106 (NCC4) to 74.2 kg N ha -1 (CC4) (94.6 to 66.2 lb N ac -1 ). Adding a winter rye cover crop reduced N loss more in the continuous corn system despite earlier spring termination of the winter rye and slightly less N uptake by the rye possibly because of more denitrification. Regression analysis of the RZWQM variables from these sites showed that temperature and precipitation during winter rye growth, N fertilizer application rates to corn, and simulated corn yield account for greater than 95% of the simulated site-to-site variability in NO 3 loss reductions in tile flow due to winter rye. Our results suggest that on average winter rye can reduce N loss in drainage 42.5% across the Midwest. Greater N loss reductions were estimated from adding winter rye at sites with warmer temperatures and less precipitation because of more cover crop growth and more soil N available for cover crop uptake.

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“…Different optimal land patterns would be obtained with different-size storms, as demonstrated in Yeo et al (2004), who show that land management as a BMP is most effective with a small size storm. As the focus is here on the effectiveness of land use as a BMP to reduce the peak runoff, it was reasonable to choose a small design storm, such as 1-year storm.…”

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Global spatial optimization with hydrological systems simulation: application to land-use allocation and peak runoff minimization

Yeo

Guldmann

2010

Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci.

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Abstract.A general methodology is presented to integrate complex simulation models of hydrological systems into optimization models, as an alternative to scenario-based approaches. A gradient-based hill climbing algorithm is proposed to reach locally optimal solutions from distinct starting points. The gradient of the objective function is estimated numerically with the simulation model. A statistical procedure based on the Weibull distribution is used to build a confidence interval for the global optimum. The methodology is illustrated by an application to a small watershed in Ohio, where the decision variables are related to land-use allocations and the objective is to minimize peak runoff. The results suggest that this specific runoff function is convex in terms of the land-use variables, and that the global optimum has been reached. Modeling extensions and areas for further research are discussed.

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Optimizing Patterns of Land Use to Reduce Peak Runoff Flow and Nonpoint Source Pollution with an Integrated Hydrological and Land-Use Model

Cited by 26 publications

References 13 publications

Impacts of land use–land cover change and urbanization on flooding: A case study of Oshiwara River Basin in Mumbai, India

Impacts of land use–land cover change and urbanization on flooding: A case study of Oshiwara River Basin in Mumbai, India

Cover crops in the upper midwestern United States: Simulated effect on nitrate leaching with artificial drainage

Global spatial optimization with hydrological systems simulation: application to land-use allocation and peak runoff minimization

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