Effects of best-management practices in Bower Creek in the East River priority watershed, Wisconsin, 1991-2009
Scientific Investigations Report
2012-5217
Prepared in cooperation with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
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Abstract
Hydrologic and water-quality data were collected at Bower Creek during the periods before best-management practices (BMPs), and after BMPs were installed for evaluation of water-quality improvements. The monitoring was done between 1990 and 2009 with the pre-BMP period ending in July 1994 and the post-BMP period beginning in October 2006. BMPs installed in this basin included streambank protection and fencing, stream crossings, grade stabilization, buffer strips, various barnyard-runoff controls, nutrient management, and a low degree of upland BMPs. Water-quality evaluations included base-flow concentrations and storm loads for total suspended solids, total phosphorus, and ammonia nitrogen. The only reductions detected between the base-flow samples of the pre- and post-BMP periods were in median concentrations of total phosphorus from base-flow samples, but not for total suspended solids or dissolved ammonia nitrogen. Differences in storm loads for the three water-quality constituents monitored were not observed during the study period.
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| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Effects of best-management practices in Bower Creek in the East River priority watershed, Wisconsin, 1991-2009 |
| Series title | Scientific Investigations Report |
| Series number | 2012-5217 |
| DOI | 10.3133/sir20125217 |
| Year Published | 2013 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey |
| Publisher location | Reston, VA |
| Contributing office(s) | Wisconsin Water Science Center |
| Description | viii, 21 p. |
| Time Range Start | 1990-01-01 |
| Time Range End | 2009-12-31 |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wisconsin |
| County | Brown |
| City | Bellevue;De Pere;Green Leaf;Morrison |
| Other Geospatial | Bower Creek |
| Scale | 24000 |
| Online Only (Y/N) | Y |
| Additional Online Files (Y/N) | N |
| Google Analytic Metrics | Metrics page |