Skip to main content

Main menu

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current Issue
    • Early Online
    • Archive
    • Subject Collections
  • Info For
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
    • Subscribers
    • Advertisers
  • About
    • About JSWC
    • Editorial Board
    • Permissions
    • Alerts
    • RSS Feeds
    • Contact Us

User menu

  • Register
  • Subscribe
  • My alerts
  • Log in
  • My Cart

Search

  • Advanced search
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

  • Register
  • Subscribe
  • My alerts
  • Log in
  • My Cart
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Advanced Search

  • Home
  • Content
    • Current Issue
    • Early Online
    • Archive
    • Subject Collections
  • Info For
    • Authors
    • Reviewers
    • Subscribers
    • Advertisers
  • About
    • About JSWC
    • Editorial Board
    • Permissions
    • Alerts
    • RSS Feeds
    • Contact Us
  • Follow SWCS on Twitter
  • Visit SWCS on Facebook
Research ArticleA Section

Tiered on-the-ground implementation projects for Gulf of Mexico water quality improvements

Robert Kröger, Matthew T. Moore, Kent W. Thornton, Jerry L. Farris, J. Dan Prevost and Samuel C. Pierce
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation July 2012, 67 (4) 94A-99A; DOI: https://doi.org/10.2489/jswc.67.4.94A
Robert Kröger
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Matthew T. Moore
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Kent W. Thornton
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Jerry L. Farris
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
J. Dan Prevost
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
Samuel C. Pierce
  • Find this author on Google Scholar
  • Find this author on PubMed
  • Search for this author on this site
  • Article
  • References
  • Info & Metrics
  • PDF
Loading

Excerpt

Both the Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan for Reducing, Mitigating, and Controlling Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico and Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin (USEPA 2008) and the GOMA Governors' Action Plan II for Healthy and Resilient Coasts (GOMA 2009) call for the development and implementation of nutrient reduction strategies to reduce excess nutrient loads to the Gulf of Mexico. However, it is not just the Gulf of Mexico waters that are impacted by excess nutrients. The US Environmental Protection Agency Wadeable Streams Assessment (USEPA 2006) and the National Lakes Assessment (USEPA 2010) indicated almost one-third of the nation's stream miles and 20% of the lakes contain high total phosphorus (P) and total nitrogen (N) concentrations. Over 6,000 waterbodies in the United States are impaired by nutrients (USEPA 2011). The US Environmental Protection Agency Science Advisory Board has called for a 45% reduction of both N and P loads from the Mississippi River Basin to achieve the goal of a 5,000 km2 (1,930 mi2) hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico (USEPA 2007). The approach taken by several states, including Mississippi, involves reduction of excess nutrients to attain the designated uses of state waterbodies for cumulative benefits…

  • © 2012 by the Soil and Water Conservation Society

This article requires a subscription to view the full text. If you have a subscription you may use the login form below to view the article. Access to this article can also be purchased.

Log in using your username and password

Forgot your user name or password?

Purchase access

You may purchase access to this article. This will require you to create an account if you don't already have one.
PreviousNext
Back to top

In this issue

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation: 67 (4)
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
Vol. 67, Issue 4
July/August 2012
  • Table of Contents
  • About the Cover
  • Index by author
  • Front Matter (PDF)
Download PDF
Article Alerts
Sign In to Email Alerts with your Email Address
Email Article

Thank you for your interest in spreading the word on Journal of Soil and Water Conservation.

NOTE: We only request your email address so that the person you are recommending the page to knows that you wanted them to see it, and that it is not junk mail. We do not capture any email address.

Enter multiple addresses on separate lines or separate them with commas.
Tiered on-the-ground implementation projects for Gulf of Mexico water quality improvements
(Your Name) has sent you a message from Journal of Soil and Water Conservation
(Your Name) thought you would like to see the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation web site.
CAPTCHA
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
4 + 11 =
Solve this simple math problem and enter the result. E.g. for 1+3, enter 4.
Citation Tools
Tiered on-the-ground implementation projects for Gulf of Mexico water quality improvements
Robert Kröger, Matthew T. Moore, Kent W. Thornton, Jerry L. Farris, J. Dan Prevost, Samuel C. Pierce
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation Jul 2012, 67 (4) 94A-99A; DOI: 10.2489/jswc.67.4.94A

Citation Manager Formats

  • BibTeX
  • Bookends
  • EasyBib
  • EndNote (tagged)
  • EndNote 8 (xml)
  • Medlars
  • Mendeley
  • Papers
  • RefWorks Tagged
  • Ref Manager
  • RIS
  • Zotero
Request Permissions
Share
Tiered on-the-ground implementation projects for Gulf of Mexico water quality improvements
Robert Kröger, Matthew T. Moore, Kent W. Thornton, Jerry L. Farris, J. Dan Prevost, Samuel C. Pierce
Journal of Soil and Water Conservation Jul 2012, 67 (4) 94A-99A; DOI: 10.2489/jswc.67.4.94A
del.icio.us logo Digg logo Reddit logo Twitter logo Facebook logo Google logo Mendeley logo
  • Tweet Widget
  • Facebook Like
  • Google Plus One

Jump to section

  • Article
  • Info & Metrics
  • References
  • PDF

Related Articles

  • No related articles found.
  • Google Scholar

Cited By...

  • Surface water quality monitoring of an agricultural watershed for nonpoint source pollution control
  • Nitrogen transport within an agricultural landscape: Insights on how hydrology, biogeochemistry, and the landscape intersect to control the fate and transport of nitrogen in the Mississippi Delta
  • Google Scholar

More in this TOC Section

A Section

  • Sustaining soil for advancing peace: World is one family
  • To protect and conserve: Fifty years of Nebraska’s Natural Resources Districts
  • Managing plant surplus carbon to generate soil organic matter in regenerative agriculture
Show more A Section

Features

  • Youth water education: Programs and potential in the American Midwest
  • Working toward sustainable agricultural intensification in the Red River Delta of Vietnam
  • Stimulating soil health within Nebraska's Natural Resources Districts
Show more Features

Similar Articles

Content

  • Current Issue
  • Early Online
  • Archive
  • Subject Collections

Info For

  • Authors
  • Reviewers
  • Subscribers
  • Advertisers

Customer Service

  • Subscriptions
  • Permissions and Reprints
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy

SWCS

  • Membership
  • Publications
  • Meetings and Events
  • Conservation Career Center

© 2022 Soil and Water Conservation Society