Land Use Planning Impacts on Near Shore Pollution Loading in the Great Lakes
Jay Heppler1, Ted Endreny2
1Davey Tree Expert Company, Davey Institute
2State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry
This is the home page for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) project titled Land Use Planning Impacts on Near-Shore Pollution Loading in the Great Lakes. This project is intended to facilitate land use planning for reducing runoff and improving water qualiy in the Great Lakes through two separate approaches:
1. Assessment of shoreline (2 kilometers inland) areas using i-Tree Hydro to determine the impact of current vegetation and impervious surfaces on annual pollution loading and estimate potential changes.
2. Assessment of all HUC8s in the Great Lakes basin using i-Tree Buffer to map areas of greatest concern for pollutant loading into the Great Lakes.
To view the reports, begin by selecting a Great Lake:
Citations
Endreny, T. A. and E. F. Wood. 2003. Watershed Weighting of Export Coefficients to Map Critical Phosphorous Loading Areas. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 39(1): 165–181.
Hynicka, J. and D. Caraco. 2017. Relative and Absolute Reductions in Annual Water Yield and Non-Point Source Pollutant Loads of Urban Trees. Crediting Framework Product #2 for the project Making Urban Trees Count: A Project to Demonstrate the Role of Urban Trees in Achieving Regulatory Compliance for Clean Water. Center for Watershed Protection, Ellicott City, MD.
Sharpley, A. N., T. Daniel, G. Gibson, L. Bundy, M. Cabrera, T. Sims, R. Stevens, J. Lemunyon, P. Kleinman, and R. Parry. 2006. Best Management Practices To Minimize Agricultural Phosphorus Impacts on Water Quality. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, ARS–163, 50 pp.
Stephan, Emily A. and Theodore A. Endreny, 2016. Weighting Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pixel Pollutant Loads to Represent Runoff and Buffering Likelihoods. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 52(2): 336‐349. DOI: 10.1111/1752‐1688.12390
Wang, J. , Endreny, T. A. and Nowak, D. J. (2008), Mechanistic Simulation of Tree Effects in an Urban Water Balance Model. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association, 44: 75-85. doi:10.1111/j.1752-1688.2007.00139.x
White, Michael, Daren Harmel, Haw Yen, Jeff Arnold, Marilyn Gambone, and Richard Haney, 2015. Development of Sediment and Nutrient Export Coefficients for U.S. Ecoregions. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 51(3): 758-775. DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12270