Number 84                         July 1997                        ISSN 1062-9149


PROJECT SPOTLIGHT

Monitoring of both land treatment and water quality is necessary to document the effectiveness of nonpoint source pollution controls in restoring water quality. The Section 319 National Monitoring Program, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, is designed to support watershed projects throughout the country that meet a minimum set of project planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation requirements. The requirements are designed to lead to successful documentation of project effectiveness with respect to water quality protection or improvement. The National Monitoring Program projects comprise a small subset of nonpoint source control projects funded under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act Amendments of 1987. The following article continues a series describing these projects.

BAD RIVER (SOUTH DAKOTA) SECTION 319
NATIONAL MONITORING PROGRAM PROJECT

Bill Stewart
South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources

Deanna Osmond
NCSU Water Quality Group; NC State University Soil Science

Project Synopsis

The Bad River watershed, located in westcentral South Dakota, consists entirely of rolling prairie rangeland. Livestock grazing and dryland wheat farming are the main land uses of the watershed. The Bad River joins the Missouri River at its mouth, near Ft. Pierre, South Dakota. Soil erosion, primarily from poor grazing management and poorly maintained riparian areas, is causing excessive sedimentation to the main channel of the Missouri River. This has impaired recreation due to loss of depth in the Missouri channel. Loss of discharge channel depth for Oahe Reservoir on the Missouri River, located 10 miles upstream from the mouth of the Bad River, has also impaired the hydropower generation of Oahe Dam during winter months. This, in turn, causes flooding in the cities of Pierre and Ft. Pierre.


Location of Bad River Section 319
National Monitoring Project

In 1996, the project was approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a Section 319 National Monitoring Program project. Agencies and organizations participating in the project include private landowners, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Upper Bad River Task Force, Stanley County Conservation District, and East Pennington Conservation District. Section 319(h) watershed funds are currently being used in the Bad River watershed to implement best management practices (BMPs). The watershed has been given priority status for funding under the U.S. Department of Agriculture EQUIP (Environmental Quality Incentive Program). Matching funds for BMP implementation are provided by the State of South Dakota and participating private ranchers.

The Bad River watershed encompasses 3,209 square miles of western rangeland. The small streams that feed the main channel are ephemeral as are the upper reaches of the Bad River itself. The Bad River enters the Missouri in the town of Ft. Pierre in Stanley County, South Dakota. The rolling topography of fine-textured, deep, shale-derived soils allows for significant soil erosion when rangeland and cropland is not properly managed. The project area supports an abundance of wildlife including mule deer, pronghorn antelope, porcupines, bobcats, prairie grouse, and numerous other species. The official beneficial uses of the Bad River include warmwater marginal fish life propagation waters, limited contact recreation waters, wildlife propagation and stock watering waters, and irrigation waters.

Project Time Frame

1996_2006

Pre-Project Water Quality

The main impairments to the Bad River are sediment from runoff and streambank erosion. Soil erosion, primarily from rangeland and riparian areas, is the primary source of the stream sediment. The load of sediment from the Bad River creates a problem in the Missouri near the mouth of the Bad River. Loss of channel capacity and water clarity impacts on sport fishing are problems on the Missouri in the Pierre area due to the Bad River sediment.

This area of South Dakota receives an average of 15_16 inches of rainfall per year. Most of the precipitation is derived from thunderstorm events during the spring and summer, although snowmelt produces significant runoff. On average, there are four storms in the year that produce enough rainfall to produce runoff in the tributaries. Runoff usually lasts for four to five days per storm event.

Land use in the watershed is primarily agricultural and consists of 75% rangeland and 25% dryland wheat farming. A large portion of the upper end of the Bad River watershed is owned by the U.S. Forest Service. Rotational grazing practices have been implemented on the federal rangeland and also on many private ranches.

Project Water Quality Objective

The main objective of the project is to document water quality improvements in the treatment subwatersheds through the implementation of BMPs.

Nonpoint Source Control Strategy

The nonpoint source pollution control strategies vary for the different subwatersheds that are being treated. Best management practices expected in the eastern part of the watershed include riparian management (cross-fencing, willow plantings, and alternative feed and watering sites) and rangeland management (rotational grazing). These practices will be implemented in the lower treatment subwatershed, Powell Creek watershed, which is comprised of 11,221 acres. The lower control watershed, Ash Creek, has 13,702 acres.

The upper paired watersheds are located in the western part of the watershed. The upper treatment watershed will receive riparian management, small dam structures, and water spreaders. Whitewater South Creek (6,605 acres) will serve as the upper control watershed, while Whitewater North Creek (6,780 acres) is the upper treatment watershed where the BMPs will be implemented.

Riparian habitat will be monitored during the project. Five riparian reaches will be selected for each subwatershed. A stream channel cross section and stream classification (Rosgen method) will be obtained for each reach and during the duration of the project, cross sections will be completed annually. Photographs will be utilized to show changes during the project and riparian information will be entered into a Geographic Information System (GIS).


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Incised stream through rangeland.

Rangeland will be monitored by measuring range condition and vegetative cover during the project period. Range condition will be determined at the start of the project, five years into the project, and at the end of the project. Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) personnel will rate the range condition using the NRCS South Dakota Technical Guide range site descriptions. The Robel Pole method will be used to determine vegetative cover at permanent transects located within each subwatershed (Ash Creek — 21 transects, Powell Creek — 13 transects, Whitewater North — 10 transects, and Whitewater South — 9 transects). The Robel Pole measurements will be taken 3 times per transect per year. This information will be entered into the GIS.

Water Quality Monitoring Design

The Bad River Section 319 National Monitoring Program project, by using a two-paired watershed design, will determine the effectiveness of BMPs. The rangeland, cropland, and riparian areas in the treatment watersheds (Powell Creek in the eastern part of the Bad River watershed and Whitewater North Creek in the western part of the watershed) will be treated with appropriate BMPs, such as fencing, rotational grazing, alternative feeding and watering stations, and vegetation plantings. All land uses will be monitored regularly and the information will be tracked by the use of a GIS database.

Because the streams in this area are ephemeral, monitoring is storm-event driven. On average, four storms per season produce enough runoff for the streams to flow. Storm event occurrence, rainfall amounts, and rainfall intensity are compared with the hydrologic discharge and sediment loads. Complete hydrologic and sediment loads will be calculated on each storm event. Storm samples will be flow integrated. During the spring snowmelt period, two 24-hour composite samples will be collected during the first week of runoff, with one 24-hour composite sample collected per week until runoff ceases. Twenty-four-hour composite samples are collected and analyzed for the duration of flow of each storm event. Samples are to be analyzed for total suspended sediment; rainfall and stream discharge are being measured as explanatory variables.

Water Quality Data Management and Analysis

All data collected during the Bad River 319 National Monitoring program will be entered into a relational database, Microsoft FoxPro. Files will be backed up daily, and the water quality data will also be stored in the EPA's STORET database. The EPA Nonpoint Source Management System (NPSMS) software will be used to track and report data to USEPA.

A GIS map will be constructed for the Bad River watershed. The GIS will allow cropland and rangeland BMP tracking throughout the life of the project. Other information, such as rangeland and riparian conditions, will be entered into the system.

Statistical comparisons of sediment load to rainfall intensity will be determined by regression analysis at all four subwatersheds. The effectiveness of implementing watershed BMPs will be tested through regression and/or correlation analyses.

Information, Education and Publicity

Meetings are currently being held with the ranch communities to explain the project. The Upper Bad River Task Force, a group comprised of ranchers and agency personnel that are committed to improving water quality in the Bad River watershed, is currently meeting to discuss nonpoint source pollution control strategies. As the project progresses, it is anticipated that newspaper articles and radio spots will be used to highlight project activities.

For Further Information

Administration & Water Quality Monitoring

Bill Stewart
South Dakota Department of Environment and Natural
Resources
Joe Foss Bldg.
523 E. Capitol
Pierre, SD 57501-3181
(605)773-4254; Fax (605)773-4068
bills@denr.state.sd.us

Land Treatment

David Konechne
Pierre Field Support Office
P.O. Box 1258 Pierre, SD 57501-1258

Wayne Vander Vorste
Pierre Field Support Office
P.O. Box 1258
Pierre, SD 57501-1258

Steven Quissell
Rapid City Field Support Office
Federal Building, Room 239
515 9th St.
Rapid City, SD 57701-2663


INFORMATION

Section 319 National Monitoring Program Projects:
1996 Summary Report

Osmond, D.L., D.E. Line, S.W. Coffey, J.B. Mullens, J.A. Gale, J. Saligoe-Simmel, and J. Spooner. 1996. 1996 Summary Report: Section 319 National Monitoring Program Projects. NCSU Water Quality Group, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Dept., NC State University, Raleigh, NC. Published by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC. EPA-841-S-96-002. 253p.

Under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, the USEPA has developed the Section 319 National Monitoring Program to specifically address nonpoint source pollution. Its objectives are twofold:

To achieve these objectives, the Section 319 National Monitoring Program has selected watersheds across the country to be monitored over a 6- to 10-year period to evaluate how improved land management reduces water pollution. National Monitoring Program projects will help communities and citizens protect their local water resources by providing information on the effectiveness of tools and techniques for solving nonpoint source problems.The annual report provides project profiles for 18 projects.

Copies of the report may be ordered (free) from NCEPI, P.O. Box 42419, Cincinnati, OH 45242, Tel: 800-490-9198, Fax: 513-489-8695, or through the NCEPA World Wide Web page at http://www.epa.gov/ncepihom/index.html. The report may also be ordered at http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/bae/programs/extension/wqg/issues/pub_order.html, or by writing to Publications Coordinator, NCSU Water Quality Group, Campus Box 7637, Raleigh, NC 27695-7637, Tel: 919-515-3723, Fax: 919-515-7448, email: wq_puborder@ncsu.edu (please refer to WQ-101 when placing your order). The report may also be viewed on the World Wide Web at http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/wqg/96rept319/COVER-96.html.

Section 319 National Monitoring Program:
An Overview

Osmond, D.L., D.E. Line, and J. Spooner. 1997. Section 319 National Monitoring Program: An Overview. NCSU Water Quality Group, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. EPA-841-S-97-003. 20p.

An attractive 20-page report explaining the Section 319 National Monitoring Program, illustrated with color photographs, has recently been produced by the NCSU Water Quality Group and printed by U.S. EPA's Nonpoint Source Branch. Twenty projects in Alabama, Arizona, California, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin are highlighed in this report.

Copies of the report may be ordered (free) from NCEPI, P.O. Box 42419, Cincinnati, OH 45242, Tel: 800-490-9198, Fax: 513-489-8695, or through the NCEPI World Wide Web page at http://www.epa.gov/ncepihom/index.html, by using the publications order form at http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/bae/programs/extension/wqg/issues/pub_order.html or by writing to Publications Coordinator, NCSU Water Quality Group, Campus Box 7637, Raleigh, NC 27695-7637, Tel: 919-515-3723, Fax: 919-515-7448, email: wq_puborder@ncsu.edu(please refer to WQ-90 when placing your order). A copy of the report may also be viewed at http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/wqg/319glossy/index.html, and can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.

Fourth National Nonpoint Source
Watershed Projects Workshop:
Summaries of Presentations

Proceedings of the Fourth National Nonpoint Source Watershed Projects Workshop, held in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, September 16-20, 1996, have been published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. This year's workshop was hosted by the Pequea-Mill Creeks Project and cosponsored by U.S. Geological Survey, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Department of Agriculture_Natural Resources Conservation Service, Penn State Cooperative Extension, and Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.

Workshop presentations focused on providing technical and scientific support to nonpoint source watershed projects having long-term land treatment and water quality monitoring components, highlighting implementation and monitoring of ground water protection and pasture management practices, integrating technical and scientific information from small scale nonpoint source projects into regional watershed programs, and demonstrating relevance and transferability of lessons learned in implementing nonpoint source control and monitoring programs to large regional ecosystems.

Copies of the report may be ordered (free) using the publications order form at http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/bae/programs/extension/wqg/issues/pub_order.html or by writing to Publications Coordinator, NCSU Water Quality Group, Campus Box 7637, Raleigh, NC 27695-7637, Tel: 919-515-3723, Fax: 919-515-7448, email: wq_puborder@ncsu.edu (please refer to WQ-102 when placing your order).


SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

<>The NCSU Water Quality Group has created a new WWW home page for Section 319 National Monitoring Program project documents. The home page address is:
http://www.bae.ncsu.edu/programs/extension/wqg/319index.html
.

This WWW page will also link directly to the USEPA Office of Water Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program home page.


EXTENSION EXCHANGE

Urban BMPs in the Long Creek Watershed

Carolyn B. Mojonnier
NC State University Biological & Agricultural Engineering

Daniel E. Line
NCSU Water Quality Group

The increase in impervious surfaces associated with urbanization can greatly alter the hydrology of a watershed by increasing the amount and rate of rainwater that runs off the land. This change in runoff can overload the capacity of streams and rivers, causing flooding and severe streambank and streambed erosion downstream. Urban stormwater runoff is also a major source of water pollution. Rainwater washes pollutants such as metals, solids, and nutrients off roofs, streets, and other impervious surfaces directly into waterways via storm drains.

While the emphasis of most of the 319 National Monitoring Program (NMP) projects has been on agricultural nonpoint sources of pollution, an entirely urban watershed project and an urban component to an existing project have been added to the NMP. The Jordan Cove, Connecticut, and Long Creek, North Carolina, projects are assessing urban nonpoint source pollution and methods of its control. In the Long Creek project, urban controls including streambank stabilization and a constructed wetland have been implemented along an urban stream called Kaglor Branch.

To address water quality degradation associated with urbanization, the City of Gastonia is working with Long Creek project personnel to implement and evaluate stormwater and streambank protection measures along Kaglor Branch, a tributary of Long Creek. Kaglor Branch drains a 1,700-acre highly industrialized urban watershed where nearly 80% of the land area is covered with impervious surfaces. Initial monitoring has shown that water quality in Kaglor Branch is degraded by sediment and nutrients, most likely from urban stormwater runoff, construction activities, and eroding streambanks. The management plan for the Kaglor Branch watershed includes: (1) urban stormwater controls, (2) streambank stabilization, and (3) education.

The City of Gastonia and Long Creek project personnel have reshaped streambanks and have planted native willow and dogwood cuttings to stabilize areas of eroding banks along 1,500 linear feet of Kaglor Branch in Rankin Lake Park. The "willow-post" method was chosen because material, installation, and maintenance costs are low and because the natural, self-sustaining environment that is created provides long-term erosion control. The willow and dogwood trees may also help provide habitat for aquatic organisms as well as be aesthetically pleasing. The willow and dogwood cuttings stabilize eroding streambanks by two means. First, the willow and dogwood root networks bind streambank soils together. Second, the willow and dogwood foliage slow floodwaters near the streambank and help reduce erosion downstream. Hardwood log revetments were also installed in the banks at baseflow water elevation to prevent toe erosion in meanders. An education program will target industries and homeowners in the Kaglor Branch watershed and will stress pollution prevention and the importance of total watershed management through awareness campaigns such as Adopt-A-Watershed and Storm Drain Stenciling.

The location of a municipal park along a section of Kaglor Branch that floods regularly provided an excellent opportunity to demonstrate and monitor the effectiveness of a constructed wetland for stormwater treatment. The use of stormwater wetlands to remove pollutants from urban runoff has attracted great interest in recent years and therefore evaluation and demonstration of the practice were considered timely. The wetland was designed such that stormwater from events with greater that 2-year return periods could result in overflow from Kaglor Branch into the wetland according to computed stage-discharge relationships and runoff rates from the TR55 model. The wetland (0.4 acres) is undersized for the 1600-acre highly urbanized drainage area due to design and space constraints; therefore, this study tests the limits of wetland effectiveness.

The wetland is configured such that water from Kaglor Branch will spill over an inflow control weir into a sediment forebay (sediment settling pool) before spilling over a level earthen berm into a shallow marsh system. The sediment forebay will reduce flow velocities to the wetland, trap coarse sediments before they enter the wetland, and provide some stormwater detention. Within the marsh system, areas of high marsh and a small island will be alternated with areas of low marsh to increase the dry weather flow path and the adsorptive capacity of the wetland, and to improve the conditions for microbial growth. The high marsh was planted with juvenile soft rush (Juncus effusus), wolf grass (Scirpus cyperinus), switchgrass (Panicum virgatum), blueflag iris (Iris versicolor), and arrow arrum (Peltandra virginica). Water plantain (Alisma plantago-aquatica), pickerel weed (Pontederia cordata), and duck potato (Sagittaria latifolia) were also planted as seeds. The plants, which were donated by the Natural Resource Conservation Service, will enhance the uptake and conversion of nutrients and reduce flow velocity to promote sediment deposition.

A shallow micropool and a weir with an adjustable flashboard riser will be constructed at the outlet of the wetland to maintain a normal pool level of 3 feet in the sediment forebay, 0-6 inches in the high marsh areas, 6-18 inches in the low marsh areas, and 2 feet in the micropool. The flashboard riser will allow experimentation of varying water depths, and automatic samplers and water depth recorders at the inlet and outlet will provide the water quality and flow data necessary to determine the effectiveness of the wetland. Once the wetland is in place, a boardwalk with a series of educational signs, benches, and lookout posts will be constructed.


ANNOUNCEMENTS

Deanna Osmond

Deanna Osmond, who has worked for the past five years as a Water Quality Extension Specialist in the NCSU Water Quality Group, accepted a position in the Soil Science Department at North Carolina State University effective May 1st. This newly created position focuses on nutrient management and water quality issues in nutrient sensitive river basins and, in particular, the Neuse River Basin. As an Assistant Professor, Deanna will conduct research, continue to work as an Extension Specialist, and continue to work with the Group's water quality projects.

Deanna was instrumental in the development of WATERSHEDSS, an Internet-based decision support system developed under U.S. EPA's Landscape Feature Project grant. She provided technical assistance to selected nonpoint source pollution control projects in the areas of project planning and water quality/land treatment monitoring and reporting under the U.S. EPA Nonpoint Source Watershed Project Studies grant, in addition to coordinating the documentation for the EPA 319 projects. Deanna was the Principal Investigator for the North Carolina Farm*A*Syst/Home*A*Syst project, for which she coordinated and co-wrote a series of fact sheets on wellhead protection for ground water drinking supplies. Deanna also served as author and task manager for numerous water quality publications and projects.

Judith Gale

Judith Gale, editor of NWQEP NOTES for the past six years, bid farewell to the Water Quality Group in March and embarked on a new adventure: opening her own environmental consulting business, Galeforce Consulting. In her new situation, Judith is continuing her work as a project manager, multi-disciplinary team leader, water quality specialist, writer, and editor.

Judith made significant contributions to the efforts of the Water Quality Group as task manager and editor of the Rural Clean Water Program evaluation reports and fact sheets; project manager of the three-year U.S. EPA Landscape Feature Project; and as author, editor, or task manager for many other water quality publications. Most recently, she served as task manager and editor for the first draft of a guidance document on controlling agricultural nonpoint source pollution being prepared for the U.S. EPA Nonpoint Source Control Program.

Deanna and Judith have been tremendous assets to the NCSU Water Quality Group. We wish them the very best in their new responsibilities.


MEETINGS

Call for Papers

WEFTEC Asia `98: Mar 8-11, Singapore. Abstract deadline: July 14, 1997. Water Environment Federation, Attn: Member Services Center, 601 Wythe Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-1994, Tel: 703-684-2452 or 1-800-666-0206, Fax: 703-684-2471, WEF Fax on Demand: 1-800-444-2933 (document #45), e-mail: confinfo@wef.org, web site: http://www.wef.org

1998 International Water Resources Engineering Conference: Aug 3-7, Memphis, TN. Abstract deadline: October 15, 1997. Amer Soc of Civil Eng, Conference & Expositions Dept, 1801 Alexander Bell Dr, Reston, VA 20191-4400, Tel: 800-548-2723 ext. 6009, Fax: 703-295-6144

Meeting Announcements — 1997

Coastal Zone '97 — Charting the Future of Coastal Zone Management: July 20-26, Boston, MA. Jessica Cogan, Tel: 20-260-7154, Fax: 202-260-9960, email: cogan.jessica@epamail.epa.gov

Soil and Water Conservation Society — 52nd Annual Conference — Managing Ecosystems on a Watershed Basis: July 22-25, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. SWCS, 7515 NE Ankeny Rd., Ankeny, IA 50021-9764, Tel: 515-289-2331 or 800-THE-SOIL, Fax: 515-289-1227, email: swcs@swcs.org, web site: http://www.swcs.org

Global Challenges in Ecosystem Management in a Watershed Contect — An International Symposium: July 25-26, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. SWCS, 7515 NE Ankeny Rd., Ankeny, IA 50021-9764, Tel: 515-289-2331 x.18 or 800-THE-SOIL x.18, Fax: 515-289-1227, email: swcs@swcs.org, website: http://www.swcs.org

American Soc Agric Engineers — International Annual Meeting: Aug 10-14, Minneapolis, MN. ASAE Society Services Group, 2950 Niles Road, St. Joseph, MI 49085-9659, Tel: 616-429-0300, Fax: 616-429-3852, email: hq@asae.org

5th Symposium on Biogeochemistry of Wetlands: Sept 16-19, London, UK. Royal Hollaway Inst for Environmental Research, Royal Holloway Univ of London, Huntersdale, Callow Hill, Virginia Water, GU25 4LN, UK, Tel: 44-0-1784-477404, Fax: 44-0-1784-477427, email: rhier@rhbnc.ac.uk, web site: http://www.vms.rhbnc.ac.uk/~uhfa060/POSTER.HTM

National Water Quality Watershed Project Symposium: Sept 22-26, Washington, DC. Lyn Kirschner, Conservation Technology Information Center, 1220 Potter Dr, Ste 170, W Lafayette, IN 47906; Tel: 317-494-9555; Fax: 317-494-5969; emal: ctic@ctic.purdue.edu

WEFTEC '97 International Conference: Oct 18-22, Chicago, IL. Water Environment Federation, Tel: 800-666-0206

AWRA 33rd Annual Conference & Symposium: Oct 19-23, Long Beach, CA. AWRA, 950 Herndon Pkwy, Ste 300, Herndon, VA 22070-5531, Tel: 703-904-1225, Fax: 703-904-1228, email: awrahq@aol.com

Karst-Water Environ Symposium & Workshop: Oct 30-31, Roanoke, VA. T.M. Younos, VA Water Resources Res Cntr, 10 Sandy Hall, Virginia Polytechnic Inst & State Univ, Blacksburg, VA 24061-0444, Tel: 540-231-8039, Fax: 540-231-6673, email: tyounos@vt.edu

Fifth Biennial Stormwater Research Conference: Nov 5-7, Tampa, FL. Diane Caban, Southwest Florida Water Management District, 2379 Broad Street, Brooksville, FL 34609-6899, Tel: 352-796-7211 ext. 4297, Fax: 352-754-6883

Meeting Announcements - 1998

Wetlands Engineering & River Restoration Conference 1988: March 20-29, Denver, CO. American Society of Civil Engineers, Conference & Exposition Dept, 1801 Alexander Bell Dr, Reston, VA 20191-4400, Ph: 800-548-2723 (ASCE) or 703-295-6029, Fax: 703-295-6144, web site: http://www.asce.org

Bridging the Gap Between Technology & Implementation of Surface Water Quantity and Quality Models in the Next Century, April 19-23, Las Vegas, NV. First Federal Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conference. Don Frevert, Tel: 303-236-0123, or Don Woodward, Ph: 202-720-0772, web site: http://h2o.usgs.gov/public/wicp

Watershed Management — Moving from Theory to Implementation: May 3-6, Denver, CO. Technical Programs - Abstracts, Water Environment Federation, 601 Wythe Street, Alexandria, VA 22314-1994, Tel: 703-684-2400

Extension Natural Resources Conference: May 17-20, Deerwood, MN. Elaine Andrews, UWEX Environmental Resources Center, 216 Agriculture Hall, Madison, WI 53706, Tel: 608-262-0142, Fax: 608-262-2031, email: eandrews@facstaff.wisc.edu, web site: http://www.uwex.edu/erc/ywc and http://www.uwex.edu/erc

Meeting Information on the Internet

There is a list of water-related calls for papers and meeting announcements on the World Wide Web at: http://www.inform.umd.edu:8080/EdRes/Topic/AgrEnv/Water/Water-Related_Events/meetings.txt


EDITOR'S NOTE

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