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Altered Hydrology: Going Beyond Best Management Practices (BMPs) to Clean Water
Jim Solstad, Retired
Division of Ecological and Water Resources
Cedar River Watershed District – October 16, 2017 1
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GSSHA – Gridded Surface Subsurface Hydrologic Analysis
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Collaborative for Sediment Source ReductionGreater Blue Earth River Basin
Summary of Findings (March 2017):
• “Achieving water quality standards will require priority investment in more temporary water storage to reduce high river flows and bluff erosion. This is a critical component of a strategy to reduce sediment in the Minnesota River.”
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Dr. Shawn Schottler Clean Water Council presentation(March 20, 2017):
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Perennial Cover …. Cover Crops …. “Soil Health”
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Miller, T. P. , J. R. Peterson, C. F. Lenhart,and Y. Nomura. 2012. The AgriculturalBMP Handbook for Minnesota. MinnesotaDepartment of Agriculture.
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BWSR Targeted Watershed Program: Dobbins CreekCedar River Watershed District
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Prime Farmland …. if drained
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High Water Table Extensive subsurface drainage
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Existing riparian corridor ….. few depressions
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Few depressions
Well-defined floodplain
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BMPs of choice:
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Water and Sediment Control Basins (WASCOBs) Grassed Waterways Buffers
Photo courtesy USDA NRCS Photo courtesy MN NRCS
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Model Scenarios
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Riparian Corridor (No BMPs) with BMPs
CornSoybeansDevelopedForestGrassland
Example Land Use Maps
• Riparian Corridor(No BMPs)
• Conservation Tillage
• With BMPs
• BMPs w/ 30% Perennial Cover
• 100% Perennial Cover
• Prairie
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Computed Flows(2.6” rainfall – June 2015)
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Computed Flows(4.6” rainfall – September 2010)
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Average Peak Flow Reduction8 summer rainfall events (2009-2015)
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No PerennialCover
Exist RiparianCorridor
ConservationTillage
with BMPs BMPs with30% "SoilHealth"
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Prairie
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Sediment Entering Channels
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WEPP: Water Erosion Prediction Project
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Chapter 7: Soil Component
X 2.4
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A very small percent of the landscape controlledby the proposed WASCOBs
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Average Annual Flow
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Prairie Existing w/o Tile Existing w-Tile
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Total Water Yield Total Tile Flow
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Cover Crops/Soil Health ….. Subsurface Drainage
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Increased infiltration
• Higher water table
• Increased tile flow
Partially Offset by
• Greater spring and fall plant transpiration
• Higher soil water holding capacity
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Take Home Message re: Altered Hydrology
• Traditional BMPs: “individually effective, collectively not enough”
• Widespread adoption of perennial cover (cover crops, 2nd crop; “soil health”) will move a long ways to achieving whatever “altered hydrology” goal is established.
• Significant reduction in surface runoff and associated erosion
• Potential increase in subsurface flow where tile are present
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Questions / Comments?
Jim Solstad, Retired
Division of Ecological and Water Resources
Cedar River Watershed District – October 16, 2017 21