Impact Assessment
Workshop
Impact Assessment and
Achievements in Water Quality Protection
June 17-19,
2008 - Nebraska City, NE
he Heartland Regional Water
Coordination Initiative's Nutrient and Pesticide Management
(NPM) Team hosted a "Impact Assessment and Achievements
in water Quality Protection" Workshop
at the Lied Lodge and Conference Center, located at the
Arbor Day Farm in Nebraska City, NE. The Impact Assessment
workshop was held on June 17 - 19, 2008 and
72 individuals participated.
These participants included university and ARS researchers
and extension faculty, state and federal agency personnel,
resource managers and advisors as well as watershed and
conservation groups.
 The
objective of the June workshop was to better understand
how sociological factors play a role in water quality protection,
to share assessment procedures used throughout the Heartland
Region, how to use assessment tools to target and measure
achievement, and to share new approaches in assessing achievements
made in water protection.
This workshop was a follow-up to a January
regional roundtable which
also addressed Impact Assessment and achievement in water
quality protection. The Roundtable was held for a
much smaller audience made
up of university faculty, ARS researchers, and EPA staff
to report the latest research findings, current projects,
and future research. This June workshop was held for a
larger audience with the goal of applying this knowledge
throughout the Heartland Region.
The NPM team hosted similar
workshops regarding Phosphorus
BMPs in 2004, Nitrogen
BMPs in 2005, Pesticides in
2006 and BMPs in 2007.
Workshop
Information:
Workshop
Agenda
Workshop
Participants
Workshop Speakers
and Presentations:
Day 1
Why
Do We Need Impact Assessment – Joe
Williams, U.S. EPA/ORD/NRMRL
Evaluating
the Impacts of Educational Programs on Water Quality – Pete
Nowak,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Impact Assessment Procedures
and Tools
The
ABC’s of Building
an Assessment: Development, Application, Interpretation,
and Utilization of Information. How do we use the assessment
to guide future decisions? – Carol
Pilcher, Iowa
State University
Making
Assessment Work for Watershed Groups, the Science
and Social Needs of Assessment – Bob
Broz, University of Missouri
Using
Water Quality Monitoring to Assess Impacts – Phil
Barnes, Kansas State University
Urban
Stormwater Requirements and Assessment – John
Stansbury, University of
Nebraska and Kent Holm, Douglas County (NE) Environmental
Services
Day 2 - Heartland
Region CEAP Projects
Understanding
the CEAP Program: ARS, CSREES, and NRCS – Dan
Devlin, Kansas State
University
Assessing
Changes in Groundwater Nitrate Concentrations in Nebraska – Roy
Spalding,
University of Nebraska
CEAP
Project in Cheney Watershed in Kansas “Assessing the Impact of a Strategic
Approach to Implementation of Conservation Practices” – Nathan
Nelson, Kansas State University
Best
Management Practices in the CEAP Goodwater Creek Watershed:
What, Where, and
Why? – Claire Baffaut, USDA-ARS, Missouri
Economic
and Water Quality Effects of Multiple Conservation
Practices in Three Midwest
Watersheds – Catherine Kling, Iowa State University
CEAP
Watershed Assessment Studies in Iowa: Lessons learned
from a collaborative
effort – Mark Tomer, USDA-ARS, Iowa
USDA-ARS
CEAP Watershed Assessment Studies in Missouri – Bob
Lerch, USDA-ARS, Missouri
Watershed Models
Using
Watershed Models to Assess Watershed Needs and Project
Impacts: What Models
Are, When to Use Them, Shortcomings and Strengths – Kyle
Mankin, Kansas State University
Case
Study: Using Watershed Models to Target Best Management
Practices in the Pomona
Lake Watershed in Kansas – Kyle
Mankin, Kansas State University
(
Both Kyle Mankin Presentations combined)
Panel Discussion: How Agencies
Assess Impact
Assessing
EPA 319 Programs – Steve
Schaff, EPA
Region 7
Assessing
NRCS Programs – Mike Kucera, NRCS Nebraska
Assessing
TMDL Implementation – Tom
Stiles, Kansas
Department of Health
and Environment
Outdoor In-Field
Visits
 Identifying
and Evaluating Critical Areas – Phil
Barnes, Kansas
State University
Assessment
Tools for Stream and Field – Herschel
George and Will Boyer, Kansas State University
Day 3
Assessing
Water Quality Using Handheld Assessment Tools – Adam
Kiel, Iowa Department
of Natural Resources
Evaluating
Watershed Projects – How
Will We Know If there is an Impact? – Don
Snethen,
Retired, Watershed Management Section, Kansas Department
of Health & Environment
 Discussion Groups
-
Iowa Group
Kansas Group
Missouri Group
Nebraska Group
Heartland
Extension Publication Group
Photo Gallery
For Thumbnails
of all photos, click
here.
Phil Barnes, KSU - Field
Presentation ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 )
Herschel George and Will
Boyer, KSU - Field Presentation ( 1, 2, 3 )
General Tour ( 1, 2 )
Discovery Tour ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,
17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 )
Tree Adventure ( 1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 )
Workshop ( 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 8 )
Group Discussion ( 1, 2,
3, 4, 5 )
Questions/Comments: Amanda
Schielke, Kansas State University
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