Effects of best-management practices in Bower Creek in the East River priority watershed, Wisconsin, 1991-2009

Corsi, Steven R.; Horwatich, Judy A.; Rutter, Troy D.; Bannerman, Roger T.

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Hydrologic and water-quality data were collected at Bower Creek during the periods before best-management practices (BMPs), and after BMPs were installed for evaluation of water-quality improvements. The monitoring was done between 1990 and 2009 with the pre-BMP period ending in July 1994 and the post-BMP period beginning in October 2006. BMPs installed in this basin included streambank protection and fencing, stream crossings, grade stabilization, buffer strips, various barnyard-runoff controls, nutrient management, and a low degree of upland BMPs. Water-quality evaluations included base-flow concentrations and storm loads for total suspended solids, total phosphorus, and ammonia nitrogen. The only reductions detected between the base-flow samples of the pre- and post-BMP periods were in median concentrations of total phosphorus from base-flow samples, but not for total suspended solids or dissolved ammonia nitrogen. Differences in storm loads for the three water-quality constituents monitored were not observed during the study period.

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USGS Numbered Series

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70042378

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Corsi, Steven R.; Horwatich, Judy A.; Rutter, Troy D.; Bannerman, Roger T.

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Wisconsin Water Science Center

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English

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44.433333

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44.341667

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-87.925

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-88.016667

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viii, 21 p.

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Prepared in cooperation with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources

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U.S. Geological Survey

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Scientific Investigations Report

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SIR

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2012-5217

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Effects of best-management practices in Bower Creek in the East River priority watershed, Wisconsin, 1991-2009; 2013; SIR; 2012-5217; Corsi, Steven R.; Horwatich, Judy A.; Rutter, Troy D.; Bannerman, Roger T.