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Watershed Management
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/422/watershed-management
the local water resource. Volunteers play a key role in many watershed management programs where they ... can get involved in watershed management in your community. We hope you have enjoyed this Watershed ... ecology of a water resource, from the headwaters to the receiving waters, and all the land in between. ...
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How The Nature Conservancy's In-Lieu Fee Mitigation Program is Working to Raise the Bar
This presentation will provide details regarding TNC’s ILF program and discuss ways in which the ... water resource community can be involved The Clean Water Act operates on a principle of “no net loss” ... offset by compensatory mitigation. In the past those seeking permits for impacts to aquatic resources ...
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Middle Reaches
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/422/middle-reaches
Periodic flooding is a natural process in the life of the creek. There the creek runs deep and slow, it ... the water runs fast and turbulent over a gravel bottom. Certain kinds of small fish and insects have ... in the middle reaches can have a major impact on the water and its inhabitants. For instance, if ...
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The Lake
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/422/lake
in size, whereas a lake can be several hundred or thousands of acres in size- like Lake Erie. ... provide water for human consumption and recreation. All of Ohio's lakes have water flowing in and ... higher retention time of water in a lake, sediments and many contaminants in the water tend to settle to ...
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For Media
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/know-your-well-water/media
For questions related to private water systems in Ohio, contact the Ohio Department of Health: Rachel ... and Ground Water Jeffrey Patzke, Manager, Water Quality Characterization and Protection Section ...
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Fluoride
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1518
water supplies contain some naturally occurring fluoride. Fluoride also enters drinking water in ... fluoride in excess of the MCL over many years could get bone disease, including pain and tenderness of the ... bones. Fluoride in drinking water at half the MCL or more may cause mottling of children's teeth, ...
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Dalapon
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1553
salt. Dalapon is an herbicide used to control grasses in a wide variety of crops, including fruit trees, ... beans, coffee, corn, cotton and peas. It is also registered for use in a number of non-crop applications ... such as lawns, drainage ditches, along railroad tracks, and in industrial areas. The major source of ...
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Chlorite
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/node/1514
and young children who drink water containing chlorite in excess of the MCL could experience nervous ... system effects. Similar effects may occur in fetuses of pregnant women who drink water containing ... chlorite in excess of the MCL. Some people may experience anemia. 1 000.00 ppb ug/L ppb Inorganic trace ...
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Sandusky River Watershed Coalition
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/groups/sandusky-river-watershed-coalition
cabrookes@wsos.org www.sanduskyriver.org 04100011 Our mission is to provide leadership for the conservation and ... in 1997 as a way to increase community activity to protect and improve the river through watershed ... management plan. One of the participating agencies, WSOS Community Action Commission offered to write a grant ...
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Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District (MWCD)
https://ohiowatersheds.osu.edu/groups/muskingum-watershed-conservancy-district-mwcd
countless lives. The dams in the system are owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), ... Watershed Conservancy District was established in 1933 by the citizens of the Muskingum River Watershed to ... provide flood reduction and water conservation in the state's largest wholly contained watershed ...