Browsing by Subject "Water Quality"
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1 Linking Land Use and Water Quality: Guiding Development Surrounding Durham County’s Drinking Watershed
(2012-04-26)Abstract Linking Land Use and Water Quality: Guiding Development Surrounding Durham County’s Drinking Watershed By Katie Rose Levin May 2012 Cities and Counties have an obligation to provide water to their citizens ... -
An Analysis of the Total Ecology of Lawn Maintenance in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
(2011-04-28)The Chesapeake Bay faces a multitude of pressures today from pollution sources, the most pressing being the influx of excessive nutrients. Effluent from waste water treatment plants, animal waste from concentrated animal ... -
Assessing the effectiveness of the Neuse nitrogen TMDL program and its impacts on estuarine chlorophyll dynamics
(2011)Coastal eutrophication is a complex process that is caused largely by anthropogenic nutrient enrichment. Estuaries are particularly susceptible to nutrient impairment, owing to their intimate connection with the contributing ... -
Clean Water Through Conservation in the Jordan Lake Watershed
(2019-04-25)Watershed management is becoming increasingly holistic. Novel approaches are needed to satisfy the interests of diverse stakeholders – including municipal water users, environmental groups, and agricultural communities. ... -
Effects of Drawdown on Water Quality and Temperature in Duke University's Chiller Pond
(2016-04-21)The Duke Pond (or chiller pond) collects runoff from 20% of the Duke University campus and serves as a water source to the adjacent evaporative cooling plant. Due to frequent water withdrawals from the chiller plant, the ... -
Evaluating the Benefits of a Water Quality Intervention in Rural India: A Longitudinal Study
(2010-05-06)Child diarrhea is one of the primary causes of infant death in the world. It affects poor populations in developing countries who do not have access to clean water or sanitation. Due to the limited resources that can be ... -
Funding Nature-Based Solutions: Forestland and Water Quality Nexus
(2023-04-27)Ecosystem services are being degraded in part due to their lack of inclusion in economic decision making. Payment for ecosystem service (PES) programs can be utilized to protect both forest land cover and its impact on water ... -
Impacts of shale gas wastewater disposal on water quality in western Pennsylvania.
(Environ Sci Technol, 2013-10-15)The safe disposal of liquid wastes associated with oil and gas production in the United States is a major challenge given their large volumes and typically high levels of contaminants. In Pennsylvania, oil and gas wastewater ... -
Measuring the Economic Value of Nutrient Assimilation in the Upper Neuse
(2012-04-18)Private land trusts and public agencies, such as NC Division of Parks and Recreation and NC Wildlife Resources Commission, have traditionally measured their work in “bucks and acres.” Both the public demand for targeted ... -
Naturally Cleaning the Waters of the Snake River
(2020-04-21)The degraded water quality of the Snake River is the result of generations of farming, but it can be improved by continuing to study and implement better management practices. Several water quality projects have been completed ... -
Public Willingness to Pay for Ecosystem Services: Water Quality in the Triangle Region, North Carolina
(2011-09-02)Ecosystem services are the benefits nature gives to human. With population increase and water quality degradation, there has been increased importance in conserving land and water that provides ecosystem services in the ... -
Radioactivity of Fossil Fuel Waste Products and Associated Environmental Implications
(2018)Extraction of energy resources and energy production can redistribute and concentrate naturally occurring radioactive materials (NORM), particularly from the uranium (238U t1/2=4.5 x 109 yr) and thorium (232Th t1/2=1.4 x ... -
Spatial and Temporal Analysis of Long-Term Water Quality Data for the Pamlico River Estuary, North Carolina
(2015-04-24)EXECUTIVE SUMMARY North Carolina has experienced significant growth in population, development, and industrial farming that are responsible for delivering unprecedented amounts of pollutants into its freshwater and coastal ... -
Spatial Patterns in Water Quality Portal Data
(2022-04)The Water Quality Portal (WQP) is a collaborative service that integrates publicly available water quality data from three federal databases. It contains monitoring data from 2.6 million sites across all 50 US states, provided ... -
TRIBUTARY CREEK WATER QUALITY INFLUENCED BY LAND USE CHARACTERISTICS AT MARINE COPRS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, NC
(2009-12-03)Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is located in the flat coastal plains of North Carolina. The base is home to ecologically important and sensitive habitat. It is also the largest amphibious Marine Corps base with high impact ... -
Water Management in Rural East Indonesia
(2019-04-26)This Master Project investigates the water quality of forty-six villages across four islands in remote East Indonesia. The major objective of this thesis is to test if naturally occurring heavy metal contamination affects ...
