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New Tools:
  • new New Educational Primers on Nonpoint Source Pollution


  • Recent Events:
  • Short Course: Managing and Understanding Sediments in Your Watershed, July 24-25, 2012. (Contact Jim Selegean for more information.)


  • Workshop: Monitoring Michigan Streams for Sediment, August 2-3, 2012. (Contact Jim Selegean for more information.)


  • Visit our Resources page for additional nonpoint source and sediment related materials.

     

     

    Managing and Understanding Sediments in Your Watershed

    U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District

    Great Lakes Hydraulics and Hydrology Office

    8-9 December 2009

    Marine Corps Naval Reserve Training Center

    Buffalo, NY

     

    8 December - CLASSROOM

    Introduction (1.1 mb) - Jim Selegean, USACE - Detroit District

    Sediment: The good and the bad (21.2 mb) - Travis Dahl, USACE – Detroit District

    Sources of sediment (4.4 mb) - Jim Selegean, USACE – Detroit District

    Monitoring for sediment (3.6 mb) - Hank Zajd, USGS - Ithaca, NY

        

    Web-based tools for soil erosion assessment/management:

    Part I (13.6 mb) - Glenn O'Neil, MSU

    Part II (4.6 mb) - Calvin Creech, USACE - Detroit District

    Ditch-sediment management tool (1.3 mb) - Travis Dahl, USACE – Detroit District

     

    Advanced tools (3.4 mb) - Jim Selegean, USACE – Detroit District

     

    9 December – CLASSROOM

    Sediment Prevention/Stabilization Methods:

    Riparian zone mitigation (24.3 mb) - Rich Fischer, USACE - ERDC

    In-stream mitigation (5.1 mb) - Dave Derrick, USACE - ERDC

    Urban and construction BMPs for sediment (2.9 mb) - Paula Smith, Monroe County, NY

    NRCS programs for soil conservation (0.1 mb) - John Whitney, NRCS, Erie County

    GL Basin Program for Soil Erosion and Sediment Control (0.3 mb) - Michael Schneider, Great Lakes Commission (program website)

    Restoration case study (6.2 mb) - Dave Derrick, USACE - ERDC

    9 December - FIELD VISITS (Contact Jim Selegean for more information)

     

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    Additional sessions are being planned for other areas in the Great Lakes Basin. Check back soon for more information!

     

     

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