A map of the property is developed and an action checklist is generated for water quality protection. Interviews with Cornell University researchers as well as researchers and practitioners from a municipal water supply laboratory and a private testing laboratory convey the scope of current research and highlight the need for further investigation. Information for water treatment plant operators and watershed managers. Tells how to draw creative policies from conflicts and how to make a watershed policy conflict productive. The use of storm hydrographs and pollutographs for understanding watershed response to precipitation and pollutant concentrations in surface water is presented.
Watershed management has multiple and complex purposes.
In addition to the traditional objectives, there are fish and wildlife habitats, wetland preservation, development, land-use impacts, and more. Questions that must be dealt with in policymaking are highlighted. One agricultural and two urban watersheds are highlighted. Describes efforts, within an agricultural watershed overlying the aquifer, to protect quality and improve recharge to one of the nation's most productive aquifers. A severe storm forced the closure of the shellfish beds which sparked a coalition to restore the bay.