Nonpoint Source Assessment: User's Guide to Ohio's Surface Waters

Bulletin 873-98

Authors

Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering
The Ohio State University
Leslie A. Zucker
Larry C. Brown, brown.59@osu.edu
C.E. Volgstadt

Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
Division of Surface Water
Lazarus Government Center
Larry M. Antosch, larry.antosch@epa.state.oh.us

Design and layout by Leslie A. Zucker, Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University.

Contents

• Introduction
• Nonpoint Source Pollution
• Water Quality Standards
• Water Quality Criteria
• Water Quality Assessment in Ohio
• Using the Nonpoint Source Assessment
• Summary
• Appendix A: Definitions
• Appendix B: Hydrologic Group/County Map
• Appendix C: Hydrologic Group Numbers and Names
• Appendix D: Hydrologic Group by County/Counties by Hydrologic Group
• Appendix E: NPS Impacted Lakes
• How to Order Documents

This publication was developed, published, and distributed through a cooperative effort with the following programs and agencies: Ohio Management Systems Evaluation Area Project (Ohio MSEA); The Ohio Water Quality Projects Evaluation Workshops Project and the Overholt Drainage Education and Research Project, Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, Ohio State University Extension (OSU Extension), The Ohio State University; and the Ohio Nonpoint Source Program, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (Ohio EPA).

The development of this publication was financed and supported by the following: the Ohio MSEA; Ohio State University Extension; Overholt Drainage Education and Research Program, Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University; and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency under provisions of Section 319(h) of the Clean Water Act as amended in 1987.

Additional copies of the User's Guide can be obtained for no charge while supplies last through Ohio State University Extension Media Distribution, 385 Kottman Hall, 2021 Coffey Road, Columbus, OH 43210-1044 (614.292.1607). The User's Guide will also be available at the OhioLine website http://ohioline.ag.ohio-state.edu. You may photocopy materials in this publication for non-commercial educational purposes only.

Questions, comments, suggestions? Please contact Larry C. Brown, Department of Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, 590 Woody Hayes Drive, Columbus, OH 43210-1057; Ofc: (614) 292-3826; Fax: (614) 292-9448; Internet: brown.59@osu.edu.