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Estimating Nutrient Loading

Read these steps and then follow them for the exercise below:

  1. Click the text below the picture for a larger version of the map, and keep it open.
  2. Print this page, so you'll have it before you go to the next screen.
  3. Click the question below the table to go to the next page. Multiply the appropriate values in the table on this page by the values in the table on the next page. For example: subarea 1 is agricultural. So you would multiply 1.81 (the measurement of the area) by .50 (constant for agriculture). The result will be the amount of nutrients the subarea contributes to the river.
  4. Click on the number of the subarea you think is contributing the most nutrients to the river.

 

Forest (>75% forested)

.09

Mostly Forest (50-85% forested)

.10

Agriculture (>75% active farmland)

.50

Mostly Agriculture (50-75% active farmland)

.34

Mostly Urban (>40% urban development)

.61

Mixed (has a small percentage of each of above)

.27


How much phosphorus and nitrogen are in this river basin?

 

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