USGS Fact Sheet 1996–0193: Study Design and Preliminary Data Analysis for a Streambank Fencing Project in the Mill Creek Basin, Pennsylvania

Study Design and Preliminary Data Analysis for a Streambank Fencing Project in the Mill Creek Basin, Pennsylvania

By Daniel G. Galeone and Edward H. Koerkle

Introduction

The Pequea Creek and Mill Creek Basins within Lancaster and Chester Counties in Pennsylvania have been identified as areas needing control of nonpoint-source (NPS) pollution to improve water quality. The two basins are a total of approximately 200 square miles and are primarily underlain by carbonate bedrock. Land use is predominantly agriculture. The most common agricultural NPS pollution-control practices implemented in the Pequea Creek and Mill Creek Basins are barnyard-run-off control and streambank fencing. To provide land managers information on the effectiveness of streambank fencing in controlling NPS pollution, a study is being conducted in two small paired watersheds within the Mill Creek Basin.

First posted August 1996

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Director, Pennsylvania Water Science Center
U.S. Geological Survey
215 Limekiln Road
New Cumberland, PA 17070

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Suggested citation:

Galeone, D.G., and Koerkle, E.H., 1996, Study design and preliminary data analysis for a streambank fencing project in the Mill Creek Basin, Pennsylvania: U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 1996–0193, 4 p., https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1996/0193/fs19960193.

Contents

Introduction

Project Description

Study Basin

Study Design

Preliminary Data Analysis

References Cited