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Program: Water Management
  • Goal:
  • Develop and deliver a statewide educational program on water management to assist landowners to make sound decisions in the context of a total systems approach to water management.
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Evaluation  and Demonstration of Agricultural Water Management BMPs
  • Goal:
  • Evaluate and demonstrate the performance of agricultural BMPs at the watershed scale
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Program: Total Water Management
  • Participants
  • Faculty: Robert Evans, Garry Grabow, Mike Burchell, Kris Bass
  • Technical Support: LT Woodlief, Mike Adcock
  • Graduate Students: Heather Schaetzle
  • Clientele: Farmers, commodity groups, landowners, agency personnel
  • Funding
  • Clean Water Management Trust; 319 Non Point Source; Cotton, Corn, Soybean and Small Grain Growers Associations
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Program: Evaluating Urban Stormwater Practices
  • Goal:
  • Determine Water Quality Benefits and Hydrologic Impacts of Bioretention Areas
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Program: Evaluating Urban Stormwater Practices
  • Goal:
  • Assess Stormwater Wetland Water Quality Improvement, Thermal Impacts, and Vector Control
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Program: Evaluating Urban Stormwater Practices
  • Goal:
  • Evaluate water quality, quantity from & plant growth on Green Roofs
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Program: Evaluating Urban Stormwater Practices
  • Goal:
  • Determine Infiltration Rates and Water Quality Improvements of Permeable Pavements
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Program: Evaluating Urban Stormwater Practices
  • Goal:
  • Assist NC DOT in Future Selection of Stormwater Practices
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Program: Evaluating Urban Stormwater Practices
  • Goal:
  • Assist City of Charlotte in Monitoring BMPs throughout the city
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"Participants:"
  • Participants:
  • Faculty: Bill Hunt, Dan Line, Jon Calabria, Jonathan Smith, Dave Bidelspach, Mike Burchell, Kris Bass, Greg Jennings, Robert Evans, Deanna Osmond, Ada Wossink
  • Graduate Students: Amy Moran, Eban Bean, Lucas Sharkey
  • Departments: BAE, Soil Science, Agricultural & Resource Economics, Civil Engineering
  • Clientele: Development Community (Engineers, Surveyors, Landscape Architects), Environmental Groups, Agents, Government Agencies


  • Funding Sources:
  • NC DENR, US EPA, NC CWMTF, NC WRRI, USDA CSREES NRI, CoG’s, Trade Organizations, Local Gov’ts
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Program: Low Impact Development (LID)
  • Goal: To demonstrate and evaluate low impact development (LID) site design techniques to reduce stormwater runoff volume, peak flow, and pollutant load to adjacent waters.
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"Participants:"
  • Participants:
  • Faculty: Laura Lombardo, Dan Line, Bill Hunt, Karen Hall, Dani Wise, Jean Spooner, Greg Jennings, Kris Bass, Dave Penrose, Jon Calabria, Dan Clinton, David Bidelspach, Rich McLaughlin, Nancy White
  • NCSU Departments: BAE, Soil Science, College of Design
  • Local Cooperators:  City of Raleigh, Carrboro, Wake County Cooperative Extension, Habitat for Humanity-Wake County, Triangle J Council of Governments, Wake Soil & Water Conservation District
  • Clientele: USEPA, NC DENR – Div. Water Quality, local governments, developers, landscapers


  • Funding Sources:
  • Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary
     Program, U.S. EPA (319), DENR-WQ,
    DENR-Land Quality, NCDOT
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Program: NPS TMDL & Watershed Restoration
  • Goal: Conduct watershed assessment to identify critical pollutant source areas, develop TMDL Implementation Plan, implement BMPs, and monitor progress at achieving TMDL pollutant load reductions


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"Participants:"
  • Participants:
  • Faculty: Karen Hall, Laura Lombardo, Dan Line, Dani Wise, Jean Spooner, Greg Jennings, Kris Bass, Dave Penrose, Dan Clinton, Christy Perrin, Ranji Ranjithan
  • NCSU Departments: BAE, Forestry, Agriculture and Resource Economics, Civil Engineering
  • Local Cooperators:  Chatham County Extension, NRCS, Farm Service Agency, Chatham Soil and Water Conservation District, Haw River Assembly, Town of Pittsboro, Triangle Land Conservancy, Triangle J Council of Governments
  • Clientele: USEPA, NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources – Div. Water Quality


  • Funding Sources:
  • U.S. EPA (319), NC DENR-Div. Water Quality
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Program: National Watershed Projects
  • Goal:
  • Assist long-term monitoring projects nationwide in evaluating effectiveness of BMPs.  Also, National Guidance Documents for USEPA and NRCS, Agricultural Compliance, BMP-effectiveness database
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"Participants:"
  • Participants:
  • Faculty: Jean Spooner, Laura Lombardo, Dan Line, Garry Grabow, Greg Jennings, Deanna Osmond, Doug Frederick
  • NCSU Departments: BAE, Forestry, Soil Science, Agriculture and Resource Economics
  • National Cooperators:  Purdue University, Cal Poly, Cornell, NC A&T, USGS, State Water Quality Agencies
  • Clientele: USEPA, USDA-NRCS, Farmers, Agents, Government Agencies


  • Funding Sources:
  • U.S. EPA (NPS Branch, Agriculture compliance, USDA-CSREES, USDA-NRCS, Tetra Tech (USEPA funding), RTI
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Program: Neuse Watershed Education
  • Goal:
  • (1) Demonstrate and evaluate practices and   
    (2) Conduct Technical Education Effort to improve water quality from agricultural, suburban, and urban land uses across a large watershed
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"Participants:"
  • Participants:
  • Faculty: Greg Jennings, Bill Hunt, Robert Evans, Deanna Osmond, Ada Wossink, 4 Field Faculty
  • Departments: BAE, Soil Science, Agricultural & Resource Economics, CES County Offices
  • Clientele: Government Agencies, Elected Officials, Farmers, Development Community (Engineers, Surveyors, Landscape Architects), Environmental Groups, Agents, Concerned Citizens


  • Funding Sources:
  • State of NC General Assembly
  • Supplemented by Grants
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Training Events

  • Water Management – 5 Events: 2026 contact hours
  • Stormwater BMPs – 19 Events: 4019 contact hours
  • LID – 3 Events: 895 contact hours
  • National Monitoring – 1 Event: 6000 contact hours
  • Neuse River - 1 Event: 1320 contact hours
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Level Spreader-Grass Strip
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Bioretention Area