@article {Forster136, author = {D. L Forster and T. J. Logan and S. M. Yaksich and J. R. Adams}, title = {An accelerated implementation program for reducing the diffuse-source phosphorus load to Lake Erie}, volume = {40}, number = {1}, pages = {136--141}, year = {1985}, publisher = {Soil and Water Conservation Society}, abstract = {Congress mandated (P.L. 92-500, Sections 108d and 108e) that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers design and develop a program for the rehabilitation and environmental repair of Lake Erie. The Corps{\textquoteright} Lake Erie Wastewater Management Study (LEWMS) identified P as the nutrient most affecting the extent of eutrophication in Lake Erie, and showed that the rural, primarily agricultural, diffuse P load needed to be reduced by about 26\% to reduce eutrophication significantly. Accelerated implementation of conservation tillage, including no-till, on soils suited to these practices on the U.S. side of the Lake Erie Basin can achieve the required reduction in the diffuse P load. Rates of adoption of conservation tillage, and concurrent reductions in the diffuse P load, by U.S. farmers under existing conditions and with a program for accelerated implementation are presented.}, issn = {0022-4561}, URL = {https://www.jswconline.org/content/40/1/136}, eprint = {https://www.jswconline.org/content/40/1/136.full.pdf}, journal = {Journal of Soil and Water Conservation} }