Land Use Planning Impacts on Near Shore Pollution Loading in the Great Lakes

Great Lake Summary: Erie

There are 24 subbasins in the Lake Erie drainage basin. To view reports for the individual subbasins, select an area below:


Shoreline

Lake Erie's shoreline was analyzed using i-Tree Hydro to determine the impact of current vegetative and impervious surfaces on annual runoff quality and quantity. For more information on how each subbasin was simulated with i-Tree Hydro, refer to any subbasin page.

HUC Tree Cover (%) Impervious Cover(%) Area (km2) Annual Runoff (millions m3) TSS Abated by Current Cover (kg) Reduction in runoff with 100TC (%) Reduction in runoff with 0IC (%)
0412010247.021.114.261.41532.58-8.58-84.92
0412010338.816.8481.3723.2528858.29-7.84-82.54
041000103.745.46114.3524.329865.88-6.29-73.51
041000116.413.41119.7820.7517405.93-5.56-67.49
0410001215.472.8441.884.241168.39-3.98-44.33
0411000125.3812.394.6915.1613664.92-5.27-64.83
0411000233.0418.155.020.41836.46-2.15-31.52
0411000340.2714.58150.0329.9833736.22-6.02-74.3
0411000442.832.6610.11.081076.56-3.61-47.36
0410000110.8910.5480.6510.67184.99-7.07-76.93
0412010143.525.61269.1935.4497582.68-4.63-62.14
0409000476.3763.5549.013.822294.62-4.78-60.95
0409000529.5610.785.080.2184.44-2.7-26.44
0410000212.353.652.480.0867.03-0.75-3.4
0412010426.3857.9328.6310.021607.51-8.77-85.7
0409000322.8226.251.180.0781.26-3.56-49.5
0409000136.9512.6414.271.312958.96-4.02-56.69

Table 2.1 Land use and annual runoff for each HUC8 in Lake Erie's basin

HUC Total Suspended Solids Total Phosphorus Total Nitrogen
04120102372.10.52556.3
04120103310.910.39085.65
04100010217.520.46547.07
04100011318.710.60699.14
04100012672.980.73818.48
04110001352.280.48356.72
04110002150.450.32885.69
04110003195.910.32345.04
04110004173.630.2973.75
04100001133.950.32766.21
04120101412.440.49565.79
04090004142.690.20677.97
0409000576.540.15176.95
04100002156.970.16256.67
04120104227.50.36165.71
04090003143.250.30366.93
04090001255.050.40716.1

Table 2.2 Localized pollutant coefficients (mg/L) for each HUC8 in Lake Erie's basin based on White et al. (2015) and annual precipitation.


Nutrient Loading

The i-Tree Buffer model is built upon the framework of Endreny and Wood (2003) and creates maps of watershed runoff likelihood and buffering likelihood values. This analysis used publicly available GIS inputs, annual rainfall data, and local (White et al., 2015) values for nonpoint source (NPS) loading of nutrients

For more information on how each subbasin was simulated with i-Tree Buffer, refer to any subbasin page.

HUC Mean TP TP Std. Deviation 90th Percentile TP Max TP
041201028.78220.57229.0335.0
041201033.9988.7217.0129.0
041000101.1830.652.05.0
041000111.6721.0093.010.0
041000122.8912.326.019.0
041100013.2293.2718.031.0
041100022.4532.8987.028.0
041100033.0913.9199.078.0
041100043.1695.81611.094.0
041000010.7660.5591.03.0
041201017.49914.48125.0244.0
040900040.0010.0340.02.0
040900050.4030.6511.05.0
041000021.2281.1893.012.0
041201043.0075.57312.055.0
040900030.6990.8952.010.0
040900011.21.1252.010.0
041000071.3530.6682.06.0
041000082.4311.0464.07.0
041000091.2350.7732.07.0
041000061.6741.0313.09.0
041000041.930.8933.06.0
041000051.8220.9643.07.0
041000031.6841.413.09.0

Table 3.1 Total Phosphorus export coefficients (kg/ha/yr) by HUC8 in Lake Erie's basin.

HUC Mean TN TN Std. Deviation 90th Percentile TN Max TN
0412010298.143190.096310.02853.0
0412010353.96981.008171.01127.0
0410001025.09113.08840.0133.0
0410001131.88616.51648.0206.0
0410001237.21826.9169.0206.0
0411000151.39648.285108.0382.0
0411000247.73753.568135.0383.0
0411000351.70862.78151.0683.0
0411000441.28470.054155.0978.0
0410000122.59915.02842.0102.0
0412010184.116132.546251.02134.0
0409000416.196.86324.067.0
0409000517.58822.03252.0144.0
0410000224.4120.43847.0245.0
0412010446.84255.319125.0542.0
0409000324.47719.95648.0173.0
0409000123.81620.73849.0198.0
0410000727.89811.61941.0153.0
0410000840.60414.17555.0107.0
0410000929.10317.10247.0175.0
0410000629.00116.25147.0188.0
0410000432.2612.59547.0111.0
0410000532.53614.81850.0139.0
0410000330.64124.05360.0177.0

Table 3.2 Total Nitrogen export coefficients (kg/ha/yr) by HUC8 in Lake Erie's basin.