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NEMO Satellite Video

Stormwater Management from a Watershed Perspective: Extreme Western Climates

This is the fifth program in the award-winning Watershed Issues Satellite workshops offered by the Pacific Northwest Regional Water Quality Program. This program was broadcast on Oct. 17, 2006. It featured Anchorage, Alaska, and Arizona.

 

Working with the coordinator of Arizona's NEMO program, Kristine Uhlman, the cameras record strategies used to control the massive runoff caused by summer monsoon rains in Arizona. One of the working strategies for controlling storm water runoff is harvesting rainwater for irrigation. Managing storm-event caused erosion is also a major problem; we visit with state and local government entities to view their strategies. A panel that included practicioners from the two areas and an EPA permit writer answered call-in questions on camera.

 

Working with AGWA

 

Levick, L..R., Guertin, D.P., Scott, S., Semmens, D.J., Goodrich, D.C. 2006. Automated geospatial watershed assessment tool (AGWA) - Uncertainty analysis of common input data. Proc. 3rd Fed. Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conf., April 2-6, 2006. Reno, Nevada. 2006 CDROM. (311 KB PDF)

Goodrich, D.C., Scott, S., Hernandez, M., Burns, I.S., Levick, L.R., Cate, A., Kepner, W., Semmens, D.J., Miller, S.N., Guertin, D.P. 2006. Automated geospatial watershed assessment (AGWA) - A GIS-based hydrologic modeling tool for watershed management and landscape assessment. Proc. 3rd Fed. Interagency Hydrologic Modeling Conf., April 2-6, 2006. Reno, Nevada. 2006 CDROM. (258 KB PDF)

 

Scott, R.L., Goodrich, D.C., Levick, L.R. 2003. A GIS-based management tool to quantify riparian vegetation groundwater use. Proc. 1st Interagency Conf. on Research in the Watersheds, K.G. Renard, S. McElroy, W. Gburek, E. Canfield, and R.L. Scott (eds.), Oct. 27-30, Benson, AZ, pp. 222-227. (112 kb PDF)

 

Burns, I.S., Scott, S., Levick, L., Hernandez, M., Goodrich, D.C., Miller, S.N., Semmens, D.J., Kepner, W.G. 2002. Automated geospatial watershed assessment (AGWA) - A GIS-based hydrologic modeling tool: Documentation and User Manual. USDA Misc. Pub., Software and User Manual Public Release, download at http://ww. tucson.ars.ag.gov/agwa.


Lane, L.J., Nichols, M.H., Levick, L.R., Kidwell, M.R. 2001. A simulation model for erosion and sediment yield at the hillslope scale. Chpt. 8 In: Landscape Erosion and Evolution Modeling, R.S. Harmon, W.W. Doe, III (eds.), Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, New York, pp. 201-237. (3 MB PDF) SWRC Reference No.: 1337      Publication Date: 5/1/2001


Miller, B.E., Levick, L.R., Lane, L.J., Steger, R.D. 2000. Organizing new methods for erosion and sedimentation monitoring and control. Proc. Internat'l. Erosion Control Assoc. Conf. 31, Feb. 21-25, Palm Springs, CA, pp. 29-37. (1022 KB PDF)SWRC Reference No.: 1271


Levick, L.R., Semmens, D., Goodrich, D.C., Kepner, W.G., Brush, J., Leidy, R.A., Goldmann, E. (Not yet published). Simulated Changes in Runoff and Sediment in Developing Areas Near Benson, Arizona. EPA, Region 9 Report-(EPA/600/R-06/158). (3344 KB PDF)

 

 

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