Integrated approach for watershed and lake water quality assessment

J. K. Koelliker, K. R. Mankin, P. K. Kalita, C. Henry

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Abstract

Development of an integrated modeling study to link watershed conditions and predict receiving water body quality incorporated the following: 1) the event-based AGNPS model to estimate watershed pollutant losses; 2) annualization of AGNPS results to produce annual mass loadings to the lake; 3) the baseflow separation package, SAM, to estimate amount of baseflow; 4) estimates of nutrients in baseflow; 5) algorithms for lake water quality from EUTROMOD to estimate lake water quality; and 6) linkage of loadings from the watershed directly to lake water quality algorithms. Results for Melvern Lake, a 28-km2 multi-purpose reservoir with 900-km2 watershed dominated by agricultural land use, in east-central Kansas are presented.

Original languageEnglish (US)
JournalPaper - American Society of Agricultural Engineers
Volume2
StatePublished - 1997
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 1997 ASAE Annual International Meeting. Part 1 (of 3) - Minneapolis, MN, USA
Duration: Aug 10 1997Aug 14 1997

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)

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