Incorporating Sustainability in NPDES Stormwater Permitting
Perform a sustainability evaluation of 3 to 5 recent NPDES stormwater permits in the State of California Develop metrics and a simple method to rank permits from a sutainability…
Perform a sustainability evaluation of 3 to 5 recent NPDES stormwater permits in the State of California Develop metrics and a simple method to rank permits from a sutainability…
Construction, operation, and maintenance of infrastructure changes land surface permeability and runoff rates. Roadside ditches carry invisible chemicals such as zinc and cadmium, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons, herbicides, and road salt.…
Recent toxicity data obtained through studies conducted by the State of Iowa and EPA Region 5 in 2009 showed that chloride was less toxic to aquatic organisms when accounting for…
The requirements outlined in TMDL reports and drafts are applied broadly to a number of land uses and are often based on assumptions. Quite often, the impacts related to transportation…
We propose to test existing live cell and whole organisms using physiological techniques, in particular fluorescent tags combined with confocal microscopy to image changes in physiology, growth and development caused…
Scope: Research Objectives: The Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, and National Forest Management Act require that stream-road crossings are designed such that viable populations of native aquatic species are…
The United States Forest Service (USFS) has recognized the snowshoe hare is an indicator species for habitat management. Occupying the southern tip of its range, the snowshoe hare is located in…
Scope: (1) Objectives. The objective of our proposed scope of research is to research and develop professional activities aimed at incorporating wildlife mitigation into standardized federal and state highway planning and…
Oregon Department of Transportation has been developing (in cooperation with other state and local agencies) a comprehensive GIS data management system. This system includes environmental, safety and asset resource information, but…
The southeastern United States is the center of biodiversity for freshwater fishes and mussels in North America. Many of these species are imperiled and one of the leading causes of imperilment…