Complete report - Partners for Clean Streams
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Duck Creek. This property was <strong>for</strong>merly an industrial facility which produced asphalt<br />
shingle. The SEP is also expected to fund aerial photographs and topographic<br />
mapping of Duck and Otter Creeks, analysis of potential properties <strong>for</strong> additional<br />
wetland creation, environmental studies, engineering design, wetland<br />
restoration/construction, and the creation of public access areas and overlooks.<br />
Lead Organization:<br />
Collaborator(s):<br />
City of Toledo, Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority (funded as<br />
a Supplemental Environmental Project to an US EPA<br />
en<strong>for</strong>cement case)<br />
Duck and Otter Creek <strong>Partners</strong>hip, Inc., City of Toledo<br />
Status and Trends in Suspended-Sediment Discharges,<br />
Soil Erosion, and Conservation Tillage in the Maumee River Basin<br />
1998-1999<br />
Description:<br />
As part of a national study of trends in surface and ground water quality, the US<br />
Geological Survey (USGS) completed a five-year, $6.7 million study of the western<br />
drainage basin of Lake Erie, including the Maumee AOC. The objective of this ef<strong>for</strong>t<br />
was to achieve a comprehensive understanding of the effects of nutrients and<br />
agricultural/industrial chemicals. This study will help promote prudent decisionmaking<br />
regarding restorative ef<strong>for</strong>ts in the Maumee AOC. The study compared the<br />
relationship between suspended-sediment discharges and conservation-tillage<br />
practices and looked at the total soil loss <strong>for</strong> the Maumee River basin in Ohio,<br />
Michigan, and Indiana. This study worked on the premise that soil erosion caused<br />
suspended-sediment discharges to the Maumee River and, in turn, suspendedsediments<br />
in Lake Erie. The major human and natural factors to suspended –<br />
sediment discharges are soil drainage, runoff potential, stream slope, and agricultural<br />
land use.<br />
The study concluded with the following in<strong>for</strong>mation:<br />
Tiffin/St. Joseph<br />
Rivers<br />
Auglaize/St.<br />
Mary’s Rivers<br />
Soil Quality Moderately/somewhat<br />
poorly drained<br />
Poorly/very poorly<br />
drained<br />
Runoff Potential Moderate High<br />
Basin Area 29.0% 48.7%<br />
Average-annual<br />
30.7% 53.5%<br />
streamflow<br />
Average annual<br />
suspended-sediment<br />
discharge<br />
9.31% 46.5%<br />
From 1993-1998, 55.4% of all crop fields along the Maumee River Basin used<br />
conservation methods of tilling. The increase in conservation tillage corresponds with<br />
a decrease in suspended-sediment discharge over time. The long term goal of the<br />
United States ACOE is to reduce sediment dredged from the Maumee River/Maumee<br />
Bay by 15%.<br />
Lead Organization:<br />
USGS, US ACOE, USDA-NRCS<br />
Activities and Accomplishments<br />
in the Maumee Area of Concern<br />
236<br />
Issue 23: Long Term<br />
Monitoring of the AOC
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