20th National Nonpoint Source Monitoring Workshop

The Secrets of Success: Making the Most of Available Resources

Tulsa, Oklahoma
October 14–17, 2012

Agenda and Presentations

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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Float Watershed Tour on Illinois River

Plenary Session - Monday, October 15, 2012 (8:30am-10am)

Welcoming Remarks (moderator Shanon Phillips)

• Shanon Phillips, Oklahoma Conservation Commission
• Oklahoma Representative Seneca Scott, District 72
• Water Quality and Working Lands Conservation (4.6MB); Tom Christensen, U.S. Department of Agriculture, NRCS
• Randall Rush, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 6

Plenary Presentation (moderator Shanon Phillips)

• The NIFA–CEAP Synthesis and Lessons Learned for Conservation—Water Quality Projects (773K); Don Meals, Tetra Tech, Inc.

Concurrent Sessions - Monday, October 15, 2012 (10:30am-12noon)

Session 1: Targeting Water Quality Monitoring (moderator Jon Harcum)

• Using Environmental Microbial Traps to Assist in the Isolation of Triclosan-Resistant Bacteria from Wastewater-Contaminated Environmental Sources (1.8MB); Bob Miller, Oklahoma State University
• Probabilistic versus Fixed Site Monitoring: How Do the Results Compare? (526K); Brooks Tramell, Oklahoma Conservation Commission
• Water Quality Monitoring at the Subwatershed Level to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Nonpoint Pollution Abatement Measures; Scott Satterthwaite, Kansas Department of Health and Environment
• The Data Speaks! Is it a Language I Understand? (2.9MB); Cheryl Cheadle, The Blue Thumb

Session 2: Targeting Land Treatment (moderator Randall Rush)

• Identification of Critical Source Areas of Nonpoint Source Phosphorus in the Missisquoi Bay Basin, Vermont (2.1MB); Don Meals, Tetra Tech, Inc.
• The Synoptic Survey—Lean Times and Big Returns (1.6MB); Ian Spotts, Maryland Department of the Environment
• Subsurface Phosphorus Transport and Scale Dependent Phosphorus Leaching in Alluvial Floodplains (1.6MB); Garey Fox, Oklahoma State University
• Targeting Urban BMPs in Cuyahoga County, Ohio (839K); Russell Gibson, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency and Kimberly Wenger, City of North Olmsted, Ohio
• North Olmsted, Ohio: A Local Implementation Case Study (646K); Kimberly Wenger, City of North Olmsted, Ohio

Session 3: Watersheds A to Z (moderator Jean Spooner)

• Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Interactive GLRI Map (7.0MB); Andrea Bolks, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Region 5
• Creating a Watershed Management Plan that Works for Table Rock Lake (1.1MB); Tammy Trantham, Table Rock Lake Water Quality, Inc.
• Demonstrating Success in the Honey Creek Watershed in Northeast Oklahoma (2.0MB); Greg Kloxin, Oklahoma Conservation Commission
• The Corsica River, Maryland - Where Do We Go From Here? (2.1MB); Quentin Forrest, Maryland Department of the Environment

Lunch Keynote - Monday, October 15, 2012 (12noon – 1:30pm)

Keynote Presentation

• CWA 319 Program – Program Reforms and the Drive Towards Results (570K); Linda Hall, Chief, Nonpoint Source Control Branch, U.S. EPA Headquarters

Concurrent Sessions - Monday, October 15, 2012 (1:30pm-5pm)

Session 4: Cost-Effective Water Quality Monitoring (moderatorTrish Rielly)

• Monitoring the Effects of Stream Restoration Projects on Water Quality in New Mexico (6.8MB); Daniel Guevara, New Mexico Environmental Department
• Water Quality Trends in Northwest Arkansas (1.3MB); Leslie Massey, Arkansas Water Resources Center
• Effectiveness Monitoring to Achieve Watershed Goals: The 3-Year Follow-Up (739K); Russell Gibson, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
• Estimating The Cost of Effective Watershed Project Monitoring Programs (3.8MB); Steve Dressing, Tetra Tech, Inc.

Session 5: Cost-Effective Land Treatment (moderator Shanon Phillips)

• Designing Phosphorus Removal Structures for Improving Water Quality (1.3MB); Chad Penn, Oklahoma State University
• Investigation of Insecticide Leaching and Transport from Potted Nursery Stock (1.8MB); Grant Graves, Oklahoma State University
• Advancements in Sustainable Rain Garden Design: Adding Evapotranspiration to the Tool Box (1.9MB); Robert Traver, Villanova University
• Curve Number Estimation for Engineered Gravel Parking Lots (250K); Haley Malle, Oklahoma State University

Session 6: Streambank Restoration (moderator Paul Thomas)

• Creating a Methodology to Prioritize Streambank Stabilization Sites at a Basin Scale (2.7MB); Erin Daly, Oklahoma State University
• Reducing Sediment and Nutrient Loadings through Stream Restoration and Streambank Stabilization in the Beaver Lake and Illinois River Watersheds (2.1MB); Sandi Formica, Watershed Conservation Resource Center
• Bloomington's Green Infra-Structure Approach Reduces Nitrate in Residential Runoff and Agricultural Ditch Flows (3.9MB); Don Roseboom, U.S. Geological Survey, Illinois Water Science Center
• Predicting Erodibility of Cohesive Alluvial Soils Following Streambank Modification (4.0MB); Sharla Lovern, Oklahoma State University

Session 7: Project Evaluation (moderator John McCoy)

• National Monitoring Program (NMP): Long-Term Monitoring Projects Documenting Water Quality Improvements from Best Management Practices (947K); Jean Spooner, North Carolina State University
• Informing the Development of Numeric Water Quality Criteria for Nutrients Using Threshold Analysis of Stressor-Response Data (416K); Thad Scott, University of Arkansas
• Making Sense of "Less-thans" and Non-detects in Watershed Monitoring Projects (1.2MB); Jon Harcum, Tetra Tech, Inc.
• Analysis of Corsica River, Maryland, Water Quality Data (417K); Jean Spooner, North Carolina State University

Session 8: Maximizing the Effectiveness of Conservation Programs for Water Quality Improvement in Small Watersheds (moderator Lyn Kirschner)

• Data NRCS' Small Watershed Approach and the Role of Water Quality Monitoring and Modeling (1.1MB); Tom Christensen, USDA-NRCS
• NRCS Funded Edge of Field Monitoring – Lessons Learned and Next Steps (165K); Keith Admire, USDA-NRCS
• Ensuring Scientific Integrity of Edge-of-Field Monitoring; Wayne Honeycutt, USDA- NRCS
• Leveraging Water Quality Monitoring in the Mississippi River Basin—A Three-Tiered Approach (257K); Nancy Young, U.S. Department of Agriculture, NRCS
• Using the APEX Model to Estimate Conservation Practice Impacts at the 12 Digit HUC (827K); Shaun McKinney, USDA-NRCS
• A Water Quality Index for Agricultural Fields (294K); Shaun McKinney, U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA- NRCS

Poster and Discussion Sessions - Monday, October 15, 2012 (5:30pm-7pm)

Reception Sponsored by Tetra Tech

Posters

• Bacterial Source Tracking (BST) in Action: Utilization of BST Toolbox Approach in Texas Watersheds; Emily Martin, Texas A&M University
• Sediment and Nutrient Reduction Initiatives in the Arkansas Delta Ecoregion; Jennifer Bouldin, Arkansas State University
• A Tale of Cooperation, Riparian Buffers, and Affected Runoff Acreage in the Illinois River Watershed; Gina Crowder Levesque, Oklahoma Conservation Commission
• Assessment of Nutrient and Suspended Sediment Contributions from a Subdivision Development in Christian County, Missouri; Lindsay Olson,Ozarks Environmental and Water Resources Institute
• Volunteers, Data, and the Public—Meaningful Stream Information ; Cheryl Cheadle, The Blue Thumb
• Blue Thumb-A Tale of Two Streams; Cheryl Cheadle, The Blue Thumb
• Urban Water Quality in the Springfield, Missouri Area: MS4 Monitoring Program; Aubree Vaughan,Missouri State University
• Nonpoint Pollution Sources and Transport in Rural Spring Creek, SW Missouri; Nicole Daugherty, Missouri State University
• Field Scale Modeling to Estimate Phosphorus and Sediment Load Reductions using a Newly Developed GUI for SWAT; Aaron Mittelstet, Oklahoma State University

Short Presentation and Discussion

• Potential Improvements to the Spreadsheet Tool for Estimating Pollutant Loads (STEPL); Stuart Lehman, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Tours and Workshops - Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Grand Lake Watershed All-Day Tour

Tulsa LID Tour

STEPL Panel Discussion

TBET Workshop: Texas BMP Evaluation Tool

• TBET – Texas BMP Evaluation Tool (1.1MB); Dan Storm, Oklahoma State University and Mike White, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service

Modified BEHI Workshop

• Stream Stability Assessment & BEHI Surveys (6.7MB); Joe Rathbun, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality

Workshops - Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Monitoring Flow and Quality for Stormwater Control Measures Workshop

• Monitoring Flow and Quality for Stormwater Control Measure (1.4MB); Robert Traver and Andrew L. Welker, Villanova University
• A Three Tiered Approach to Monitoring Stormwater Control Measures (SCMs) (764K); Andrew L. Welker, Villanova University
• Monitoring Technology (2.3BM); Robert Traver, Villanova University

Monitoring Edge-of-Field Runoff from Agricultural Land at UW–Platteville's Pioneer Farm

• Lessons Learned: Edge-of-Field Runoff Monitoring (5.9MB); Dennis Busch, University of Wisconsin, Platteville and Randy Mentz, University of Wisconsin, Platteville

Rainfall Simulator Demonstration, USDA-NRCS (10:00am–10:30am)

Closing Remarks - Wednesday, October 17, 2012 (12noon – 1:30pm)

Closing Remarks

• CWA 319 Program – Progress and What's Next; Thomas Davenport, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 5