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Sediment and nutrient trapping

Literature Reviews

Gilliam, J.W. et al. 1997. Selected agricultural best management practices to control nitrogen in the Neuse River Basin, North Carolina State University Technical Bulletin 311, Raleigh, NC.

Lowrance, R., et al. 1995. Water quality functions of riparian forest buffer systems in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. U.S. EPA Publication EPA 903-R-95-004.

Bibliographies

Vegetated stream riparian zones: their effect on stream nutrients, sediments, and toxic substances. Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MA. http://www.serc.si.edu/documents/ripzone.html

Function and design of vegetation filter strips: an annotated bibliography. Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board, Temple, TX. http://waterhome.tamu.edu/tsswcb/Projects/bibliography/index.html

NRCS Websites

National Handbook of Conservation Practices and Buffer Job Sheets
http://www.ncg.nrcs.usda.gov/nhcp_2.html

Naural Resources Conservation Service Homepage
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov

 

 

Designing Buffers

Local Field Office Technical Guide on file with NRCS will give guidance on buffer widths required in the local area.

Selecting and sizing buffer practices for the conservation buffer initiative.
http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/tpham/buffer/akey.htm

Banks & Buffers A Guide to Selecting Native Plants for Streambanks and Shorelines: Available on CD-ROM from Tennessee Valley Authority. Call 423-751-7338.

Plants for Conservation Buffers. USDA NRCS.

 

Extension publications

Landowner's Guide to Managing Streams in the Eastern United States. Publication 420-141. Virginia Cooperative Extension.

Vegetative Filter Strips: Application, Installation, and Maintenance. Publication AEX-467-94. Ohio State University Extension.

Buffer Strip Design, Establishment, and Maintenance. Publication Pm-1626b. Iowa State University Extension.

 

Literature Cited

Arora, K., S.K. Mickelson, J.L. Baker, D.P. Tierney, and C.J. Peter. 1996. Herbicide retention by vegetative buffer strips from runoff under natural rainfall. Trans of the ASAE 30(6):2155-2162.

Arora, K., S.K. Mickelson, and J.L. Baker. 1995. Evaluating vegetative buffer strips for herbicide retention. Paper No. 95-2699. American Society of Agricultural Engineers, St. Joseph, MI.

Arora, K., J.L. Baker, S.K. Mickelson, and D.P. Tierney. 1993. Evaluating herbicide removal by buffer strips under natural rainfall. Paper No. 93-2593. American Society of Agricultural Engineers, St. Joseph, MI 49085.

Asmussen, L.E., A.W. White Jr., E.W. Hauser, and J.M. Sheridan. 1977. Reduction of 2,4-D load in surface runoff down a grassed waterway. J. Environ. Qual. 6(2):159-162.

Bharati, Luna. 1997. Infiltration in a Coland clay loam under a six-year old multi-species riparian buffer strip, cultivated row crops and continually grazed pasture. M.S. Dissertation, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA.

Castelle, A.J., A.W. Johnson, and C.Conolly. 1994. Wetland and stream buffer size requirements - a review. J. Environ. Qual. 23:878-882.

Cole, J.T., J.H. Baird, N.T. Basta, R.L. Huhnke, D.E. Storm, G.V. Johnson, M.E. Payton, M.D. Smolen, D.L. Martin, and J.C. Cole. 1997. Influence of buffers on pesticide and nutrient runoff from bermudagrass turf. J. Environ. Qual. 26:1589-1598.

Dillaha, T.A., R.B. Reneau, S. Mostaghimi, and D. Lee. 1989. Vegetative filter strips for agricultural nonpoint source pollution control. Trans of the ASAE 32(2):513-519.

Eisenhaurer, Dean, Thomas Franti, Mike Dosskey, and Kyle Hoagland. 1997. Field assessment of surface runoff patterns into riparian areas. Proceedings Vegetative Filter Strip and Riparian Buffer Research Symposium, Dec. 17, 1997. University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Fawcett, R.S., D.P. Tierney, C.J. Peter, J.L. Baker, S.K. Mickelson, J.L. Hatfield, D.W. Hoffman, and T.G. Franti. 1995. Protecting Aquatic Ecosystems with Vegetative Filter Strips and Conservation Tillage. Proceedings of the National Agricultural Ecosystem Management Conference. New Orleans, LA, December 13-15, 1995. Conservation Technology Information Center, West Lafyette, IN.

Franti, T.G., C.J. Peter, D.P. Tierney, R.S. Fawcett, and S.A. Meyers. In Press. Reducing herbicide losses from tile-outlet terraces. J. Soil and Water Cons.

Gilliam, J.W., D.L. Osmond, and R.O. Evans. 1997. Selected agricultural best management practices to control nitrogen in the Neuse River Basin, North Carolina State University Technical Bulletin 311, Raleigh, NC.

Hall, J.K., N.L. Hartwig, and L.D. Hoffman. 1983. Application mode and alternate cropping effects on atrazine losses from a hillside. J. Environ. Qual. 12(3):336-340.

Hoffman, Dennis W. 1995. Use of contour grass and wheat filter strips to reduce runoff losses of herbicides. Proc. Austin Water Quality Meeting, Texas A & M Univ., Temple, TX.

Lee, Kye-Han. 1997. Nutrient and sediment removal by switchgrass and cool-season grass filter strips. Proceedings Vegetative Filter Strip and Riparian Buffer Research Symposium, Dec. 17, 1997, University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

Lowrance, R., L.S. Altier, J.D. Newbold, R.R. Schnabel, P.M. Groffman, J.M. Denver, D.L. Correll, J.W. Gilliam, J.L. Robinson, R.S. Brinsfield, K.W. Staver, W. Lucas, and A.H. Todd. 1995. Water quality functions of riparian forest buffer systems in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. EPA 903-R-95-004.

Lowrance, R., G. Vellidis, R.D. Wauchope, P. Gay, and D.D. Bosch. 1997. Herbicide transport in a managed riparian forest buffer system. Trans. of the ASAE 40(4):1047-1057.

Magette, William L., Russel B. Brinsfield, Robert E. Palmer, and James D. Wood. 1989. Nutrient and sediment removal by vegetated filter strips. Trans. of the ASAE 32(2):663-667.

Matter, Michael Patrick. 1993. Sorption kinetics of atrazine and hydroxyatrazine in freshwater wetlands. M.S. Dissertation, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA.

Meyer, L.D., S.M. Dabney, and W.C. Harmon. 1995. Sediment-trapping effectiveness of stiff-grass hedge. Trans of the ASAE 38(3):809-815.

Mickelson, S.K., J.L. Baker, S.W. Melvin, R.S. Fawcett, D.P. Tierney, and C.J. Peter. In Press. Effects of soil incorporation and setbacks on herbicide runoff from a tile-outlet terraced field. J. Soil and Water Cons.

Mickelson, S.K. and J.L. Baker. 1993. Buffer strips for controlling herbicide runoff losses. Paper No. 932084. American Society of Agricultural Engineers, St. Joseph, MI.

Misra, Akhilesh Kumar. 1994. Effectiveness of vegetative buffer strips in reducing herbicide transport with surface runoff under simulated rainfall. Ph.D. Dissertation, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA.

Misra, A., J.L. Baker, S.K. Mickelson, and H. Shang. 1996. Contributing area and concentration effects on herbicide removal by vegetative buffer systems. Trans of the ASAE 39(6):2105-2111.

Misra, A., J.L. Baker, S.K. Mickelson, and H. Shang. 1994. Effectiveness of vegetative buffer strips in reducing herbicide transport with surface runoff under simulated rainfall. Paper No. 942146. American Society of Agricultural Engineers, St. Joseph, MI.

Patty, L., B. Real, and J.J. Gril. 1997. The use of grassed buffer strips to remove pesticides, nitrate and soluable phosphorous compounds from runoff water. Pesticide Sci. 49:243-251.

Rankins, A., Jr., D.R. Shaw, M. Boyette, and S.M. Seifert. 1998. Minimizing herbicide and sediment losses in runoff with vegetative filter strip. Abstracts Weed Sci. Soc. Am. 38:59.

Reicosky, D.C., W.D. Kemper, G.W. Langdale, C.L. Douglas, Jr., and P.E. Rasmussen. 1995. Soil organic matter changes resulting from tillage and biomass production. J. Soil and Water Cons. 50:253-261.

Rhode, W.A., L.E. Asmussen, E.W. Hauser, R.D. Wauchope, and H.D. Allison. 1980. Trifluralin movement in runoff from a small agricultural watershed. J. Environ. Qual. 9(1):37-42.

Schultz, R.C., J.P. Colletti, T.M. Isenhart, W.W. Simpkins, C.W. Mize, and M.L. Thompson. 1995. Design and placement of a multi-species riparian buffer strip system. Agroforestry Syst. 29:201-226.

Schultz, Richard C., Amy Kuehl, Joe P. Colletti, Paul Wray, Tom Isenhart, and Laura Miller. 1997. Riparian buffer systems. Iowa State University Publication Pm-1626a, Ames, IA.

Tingle, C.H., D.R. Shaw, M. Boyette, and G.P. Murphy. 1998. Metolachlor and metribuzin losses in runoff as affected by width of vegetative filter strips. Weed Sci. 46:475-479.

Wauchope, R.D. 1978. The pesticide content of surface water draining from agricultural fields - a review. J. Environ. Qual. 7:459-472.

Webster, E.P. and D.R. Shaw. 1996. Impact of vegetative filter strips on herbicide loss in runoff from soybean (glycine max). Weed Sci. 44:662-671.

Welsch, D.J. 1991. Riparian Forest Buffers. USDA-FS Pub. No. NA-PR-07-91. USDA-FS, Radnor, PA.

Wood, H.B. 1977. Hydrologic differences between selected forested and agricultural soils in Hawaii. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 41:132-136.

Yonts, C.D., R.G. Wilson, and G.L. Hein. 1996. Control of pesticides and nitrates in surface irrigation runoff water. Paper No. 96-1041. American Society of Agricultural Engineers, St. Joseph, MI.

 
                         
 
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