| Abstract: | An investigation was begun in 1984 in Guilford County, North Carolina, to monitor water quality and soil erosion in basins with various land-management practices. Hydrologic and chemical-quality data were collected from four rural drainage basins, including two agricultural basins (7.4 and 4.8 acres) cultivated in tobacco and small grains, a mixed rural land-use basin (665 acres) currently under standard land-management practices, and a forested control basin (44 acres) characterizing background conditions. Mean concentrations of total nitrite plus nitrate were 1.0 milligrams per liter from the agricultural basin under standard land-management practices. This was nearly 10 times greater than concentrations from the forested basin. Records of streamflow discharge, chemical quality, ground-water levels, precipitation, and farming activities collected from October 1984 through September 1988 at one or more of the basins are also presented in this report. |
| Genre: | USGS Numbered Series |
| ProdID: | 19347 |
| Citation Author: | Hill, C. L. |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | vi, 105 p. :ill. ;28 cm. |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey ;
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| Citation Series: | Open-File Report |
| Citation Series Code: | OFR |
| Citation Series Number: | 89-578 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Hydrologic and chemical-quality data from four rural basins in Guilford County, North Carolina, 1985-88; 1989; OFR; 89-578; Hill, C. L. |
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| Citation Year: | 1989 |
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| Text: | Hydrologic and chemical-quality data from four rural basins in Guilford County, North Carolina, 1985-88; 1989; OFR; 89-578; Hill, C. L. |
| URL (THUMBNAIL): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1989/0578/report-thumb.jpg |
| URL (DOCUMENT): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1989/0578/report.pdf |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jan 1994 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey ;
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