Browsing by Subject "water quality"
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A DECISION SUPPORT TOOL FOR PREDICTING WATER QUALITY BASED ON LAND COVER
(2011-04-28)Managers at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune must evaluate the environmental impacts of their proposed development plans. The effect of land cover changes on water quality is an important consideration for these evaluations. ... -
ChangeALife Uganda: Migyera Community Water Project
(2015-04-24)In many parts of the developing world, poor water quality and water scarcity affect human health and their economic and social well-being. Although much progress has been made towards increasing access to improved water ... -
Determining Stream and Wetland Health in an Urban Restored Riparian Ecosystem in Durham NC through Benthic-macroinvertebrate Surveys
(2014-04-24)Water and aquatic habitat quality are frequently assessed by analyzing the structure of benthic macroinvertebrate communities in streams and other bodies of water. The Stream and Wetland Assessment Management Park (SWAMP) ... -
Development and Land Use Impacts on Marine Ecosystems in the United States Virgin Islands (USVI)
(2017-04-25)Anthropogenic and natural stressors have long been a source of concern as they relate to water quality and marine ecosystem health, particularly in the United States Virgin Islands (USVI). Although many studies have been ... -
Diverse Ways of Knowing in Water Quality Conservation in North Carolina
(2013)Diverse ways of knowing have been recognized by scholars in many disciplines to contribute creative perspectives and novel problem-solving approaches. In the environmental sciences, those dependent on natural resources and ... -
Evaluating the use of periphyton as an indicator of nutrient over-enrichment in North Carolina wadeable streams
(2018-04-26)The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (NCDEQ) is currently working to define statewide nutrient criteria for its waterbodies. As a subset of this nutrient criteria development project, approaches to identify ... -
Frack to the Future? Closing Oil- and Gas-Related Fractures in the Law of Water Protection
(2011-04-29)In a world of increasing concern about foreign oil imports and climate change, natural gas is expected to become an increasingly important part of the United States’ fuel mix. As conventional natural gas sources are depleted, ... -
IDENTIFYING POTENTIAL TIME LAG RESPONSES THROUGH LONG-TERM WATER QUALITY TRENDS IN A RESTORED RIPARIAN WETLAND STREAM COMPLEX IN THE PIEDMONT OF NORTH CAROLINA
(2021-04-29)Restoration of impaired ecosystems often experience hydrological and biogeochemical time lags between the restoration implementation and ecosystem recovery and water quality improvements, but there is a lack of long-term ... -
INCORPORATING RIPARIAN BUFFER METRICS INTO THE USGS SOUTHEAST SPARROW MODEL
(2009-04-24)Riparian zones serve an important role in the ecological landscape. They serve as habitat for wildlife, prevent erosion, and act as buffers to help reduce and filter the amount of pollutants entering surface waters. The ... -
Influences of Windthrow in Forested Stream Buffers
(2015-12-07)Forestry operations have long been understood to contribute to non-point source pollution. With the implementation of federal regulations to thwart such pollution and protect water quality, North Carolina adopted rules called ... -
Investigation of Poor Stream Function in the Fishing Creek Watershed
(2015-04-24)Water quality in Coon, Jordan, and Fishing Creeks of Granville County, NC was assessed using geospatial modeling, toxicity testing, community surveys and interviews, and risk assessment. Field data combined with existing ... -
Linking upstream mining to downstream water quality: Mountaintop mining in West Virginia
(2010-04-30)Mountaintop mining valley fill (MTM/VF) coal mining is currently the dominant form of land use change in the central Appalachians. MTM/VF activities level mountains, remove forests and forest soils, bury headwater streams ... -
MINING SOCIAL MEDIA TO ASSESS PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF WATER QUALITY
(2021-05-29)Social media provides potentially new sources of information for the detection and management of undesirable water quality events such as harmful algae blooms (HABs) in surface waters. Current methods for identifying HAB ... -
Optimizing Nutrient and Timber Management for the Town of Butner, NC
(2011-04-29)The following report documents the findings of a client-focused group Master’s Project completed at the Nicholas School of the Environment at Duke University. The project’s purpose is to support the client’s goal to optimize ... -
Origin and Scope of Hexavalent Chromium in North Carolina Groundwater
(2018-04-27)Potential groundwater contamination from coal ash ponds is a current public health concern in North Carolina. One of the suspected contaminants is chromium, particularly the toxic hexavalent chromium form. A recent study ... -
Potomac Watershed Priority Lands Strategy: Conserving lands to benefit drinking water quality
(2009-04-24)Rapid development in the Potomac watershed – the conversion of forests to agricultural, suburban, and urban land — threatens water quality. Similarly, strategic land conservation can protect water quality. Inspired by examples ... -
Responsible Development in Tulum, Mexico: Considering Water Quality and Subaqueous Cave Locations
(2009-04-24)Development is rapidly occurring along the Mayan Riviera in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico with little regard to environmental regulations or wellbeing. In particular, fresh water must be considered when planning for future ... -
Scaling Up Payment for Watershed Services Programs in the Upper Neuse River Basin: A Feasibility Analysis and Guidance Framework
(2012-04-27)The Falls Lake Reservoir in the Upper Neuse River Basin (UNRB) of North Carolina is currently classified as “impaired,” meaning that it fails to meet state water quality standards for its designated use for aquatic life. ... -
Scaling Up Payment for Watershed Services Programs In the Upper Neuse River Basin: A Feasibility Analysis and Guidance Framework
(2012-04-27)The Falls Lake Reservoir in the Upper Neuse River Basin (UNRB) of North Carolina is currently classified as “impaired,” meaning that it fails to meet state water quality standards for its designated use for aquatic life. ... -
Scaling Up Payment for Watershed Services Programs in the Upper Neuse River Basin: A Feasibility Analysis and Guidance Framework
(2012-04-27)The Falls Reservoir in the Upper Neuse River Basin (UNRB) of North Carolina is currently classified as “impaired,” meaning that it fails to meet state water quality standards for its classified use. To retain its designated ...
