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  • Areawide Water Quality Management: a case study

    Creator:
    Brown, Gregory Frank
    Abstract:
    With our present pressing need to clean up our Nation'a waterways there has developed a shift from water resource development to water quality management. This shift was manifested in 1972 when Congress created Areawide Water Quality Management in Section 208 of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments. Section 208...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    Office, April, 1976), p. V-105. 25 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Water Quality

  • A study of aquifer protection : the Spokane case

    Creator:
    Moon, George Edmund Jr
    Abstract:
    This case study of the Spokane Valley-Rathdrum Prairie aquifer, deals with the evolution of water quality protection. A number of institutional efforts on multijurisdictional levels have established a piecemeal approach for this aquifer's protection. Federal legislation includes designation as a 'Sole Source' aquifer under sec. 1424(e) of SDWA, and 1...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    93-523). Office of Water Supply. July 28: i-27. Environmental Protection Agency. 1986a. 1986. Office

  • An assessment of Oregon's interagency ground water quality monitoring program

    Creator:
    Goon, Timothy D.
    Abstract:
    Disposal of solid wastes in sanitary landfills presents poten­tial problems of ground water contamination. The most conman contaminants are leachate and dissolved gas. Oregon has implemented a ground water quality monitoring program at selected landfills. Objectives are to protect the state1 s ground water resource and complement regulatory and enforcement...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    Water Resource Department (WRD) and the State De- partment of Environmental Quality (DEQ) files, field

  • Geographic variations in water quality and recreational use along the upper Wallowa River and selected tributaries

    Creator:
    McDowell, Theodore R.
    Abstract:
    Physical, chemical and bacterial water quality parameters of the upper Wallowa River were sampled periodically between July 2, 1978 and June 9, 1979 at nine stream and lake sampling sites. Water upstream from Wallowa Lake was typified by low nutrient concentrations ( generally below detectable limits except for nitrates), low....
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    associated 6lnterim drinking water standards established by the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (1977

  • The effects of large-lot zoning on the single-family housing market

    Creator:
    Roberts, Rebecca S.
    Abstract:
    This study investigated the private costs to individual households of large-lot zoning policies. The study asked whether typical zoning ordinances create shortages of small lots or small structures and, if so, what the magnitude of the resultant welfare loss is. The hypotheses were suggested by a theoretical model developed to...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    Enabling Act by the United States Commerce Department. This act became the model for most state zoning

  • An analysis of potential "swampbuster" wetland protection in the Tualatin Valley, Oregon

    Creator:
    Gallagher, Michael A.
    Abstract:
    The loss of wetlands in the United States has been widely publicized. Wetland conversions to agricultural production have been responsible for a large percentage of wetland losses. Partially in recognition of the agricultural cause for this wetland loss, Congress promulgated the "swampbuster" provisions of the Food Security Act of 1985....
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    PROTECTION IN THE TUALATIN VALLEY, OREGON ABSTRACT: The loss of wetlands in the United States has been

  • Protection of groundwater from nonpoint source pollution: will Oregon's 1989 legislation meet the challenge?

    Creator:
    Homer, Pamela E.
    Abstract:
    Nonpoint sources of pollution are being recognized nationwide as a significant threat to groundwater quality. In Oregon, groundwater supplies in several areas have been affected by contamination possibly caused by nonpoint sources associated with agricultural activities, on-site sewage disposal, and inadequate hazardous materials management in urban areas. State groundwater protection...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    .................... U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EQC ......................... Environmental Quality Commission

  • A survey and evaluation of land resource classification systems in the United States

    Creator:
    Aldrich, Frank T.
    Abstract:
    The purpose of this thesis is to examine the methods and criteria developed for rating actual and potential agricultural land in the United States. It is motivated by the apparent increasing competition for quality space created by the expanding population, and by the belief that land rating and classification are...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Systems in the United States AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Frank Thatcher Aldrich for the M. S. in

  • Competition for water : federal-state conflicts in the Klamath Basin, Oregon

    Creator:
    Cordill, M. Kim
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    states, retain elements of riparianism, and predicate state control of water resources on the fact that

  • The use of riparian open space as an alternative to structural flood control measures in the United States

    Creator:
    Olson, Thomas
    Abstract:
    Annual flood damages continue to rise in the United States in spite of massive investments in flood control structures since 1936. These increased losses can be attributed, in part, to the inherent Limitations in scope and nature of traditional "structural" approaches to flood control. Acquisition of flood plain lands is...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    FLOOD CONTROL MEASURES IN THE UNITED STATES by THOMAS OLSON A RESEARCH PAPER submitted to THE