A few JCM Environmental employees attended the Center for Inland Bays conference entitled Frontiers in Nutrient Management at the Atlantic Sands hotel in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware on Wednesday.
We presented a poster detailing the nutrient management innovations employed at two Inland Bay watershed residential development sites that we have worked on.
Here is the abstract:
Innovative Approaches to Nutrient Management in Residential Development, by James C. McCulley IV, P.W.S, President JCM Environmental Consultants, Inc., jim@jcmenv.com.
Residential development in the Inland Bays watershed provides opportunities for innovative nutrient management approaches. Two residential projects in the watershed were chosen to illustrate the opportunities for innovative nutrient management. A one thousand acre intensive agricultural site (Site1) adjacent to the inland bays and a one hundred acre forested site (Site 2) upstream of a tidal reach to the inland bays. Site 1 was intensively studied to determine agricultural nutrient loadings, after which residential nutrient reduction measures were implemented and monitoring was performed to determine success. The reduction measures included: property management approaches and tiered storm water practices. Site 2 built upon the successes of Site 1 and is currently in the design phase and is proposing similar as well as additional approaches, including: integrated pest management, lawn grass reduction, green development practices under the newly implemented Sussex County Green Development Policy and other innovative storm water management approaches. The data shows that the approaches implemented at Site 1 have been successful and we are confident that the additional approaches implemented at Site 2 will have an additive effect on nutrient reduction in the inland bays.
For more information contact Joe Gordon at joe@jcmenv.com or www.jcmenv.com
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