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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Assistance to land occupiers in applying proper practices to control soil erosion, reduce water pollution and aid in land resource planning will be made available on all lands within the District.
Reducing pollution and carefully managing the way we use land within a watershed is key to improving water quality and drinking water in our watershed.
Because agriculture is the primary land use in the watershed, nonpoint source pollution from farmland is of major concern when discussing the protection of our water quality.
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Sarah Kennedy,
Fashion Model
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Land fills, wet textile industries such as leather tanning also pose a problem of water pollution.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Nonpoint source pollution occurs when rain or melting snow washes soil, nutrients, and pesticides off the land and into lakes, streams and groundwater.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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These are forms of diffuse pollution caused by sediment, nutrients, organic and toxic substances originating from land-use activities, which are carried to lakes and streams by surface runoff.
The analysis of land use impacts on water quality revealed that pollution in the Saugatucket seems to be a cumulative effect of many small,diffuse sources.
Much of this effort is focused on developing better models for predicting nonpoint source pollution and evaluating the impact that climate and land use change have on rivers and streams.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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Past pollution of saltmarshes in Southampton Water has left a legacy of contaminants in the sediment and these marshes are very vulnerable to further pollution incidents, land claim within harbour areas and disturbance.
Urbanization of land area in the south end of Okaloosa and Walton Counties presents new sources of nutrient loading from runoff and atmospheric pollution.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Recommendations are made to improve land use practices, to continue to upgrade sewage treatment plants, and to reduce runoff to minimize pollution to the harbors, particularly near the areas of concern.
Anyone involved in land-use decisionmaking will find this report an invaluable resource in controlling nonpoint source pollution.
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