SAINT ALBANS BAY, VERMONT

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• INTRODUCTION TO THE WATERSHED

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• WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS

  • Watershed characteristics
  • Subwatersheds
  • geology
  • Soil classifications
  • Climate
  • Land use

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• WATER RESOURCE DESCRIPTION

  • Description
  • Water resource Use
  • How water resource is Classified

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• WATER QUALITY IMPAIRMENT

  • Description of impairment
  • Effect on uses
  • Process to determine impairment
  • Process to determine pollutant sources

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• WATER QUALITY PROBLEM STATEMENT

  • Watershed problem statement
  • Problem statement evaluation process
  • Rewritten problem statement

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• WATER QUALITY OBJECTIVES AND GOALS

  • Water quality goals and objectives
  • Evaluation of goals and objectives
  • Rewritten goals and objectives

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• LAND TREATMENT

  • Land treatment goals and objectives
  • Best Management Practices
  • Process to define critical areas
  • Process for selection of BMPs
  • Land treatment goals completed

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• AGRICULTURAL PRODUCER PARTICIPATION

  • RCWP Contract history
  • Incentives promoting participation
  • Disincentives of participation
  • Economic information
  • Improvement of participation

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• MONITORING AND EVALUATION

  • Water Quality Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Monitoring design
  • Variables Measured
  • Data management and storage
  • Pre- and Post-project water Quality
  • Use of Data
  • Land treatment and tracking Evaluation
  • Tracking system used
  • Use of GIS
  • Use of data for land Treatment/Tracking

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• REFERENCES

The St. Albans Bay (Vermont) Rural Clean Water Program project case study was compiled and edited by David W. Lehning, Senior Research Technologist, Environmental Resources Research Institute, Center for Artificial Intelligence in Water Quality Control Processes, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA. The sources of the information included in the case study are:

Gale, Judith A., et al., 1993. Evaluation of the Experimental Rural Clean Water Program. National Water Quality Evaluation Project, NCSU Water Quality Group, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, EPA-841-R-93-005.

Gale, J. A., et al., 1992. Summary Report: Evaluation of the Experimental Rural Clean Water Program. National Water Quality Evaluation Project, NCSU Water Quality Group, Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. In cooperation with: U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. September, 1992.

Vermont RCWP Coordinating Committee., 1991. St. Albans Bay Rural Clean Water Program: Final Report 1991, USDA, Vermont Water Resources Research Center.

Cassell, E.A., et al., 1983. St Albans Bay Watershed Comprehensive Water Quality Monitoring & Evaluation, Report No. 1, Background Information. Vermont Water Resources Research Center, School of Natural Resources, University of Vermont and U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service.

NCSU Water Quality Group

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