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Rouge River Watershed Report Card (Arabic) (Page 1)

Rouge River Watershed Report Card (Arabic)

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton, Anikka Fife ·
3 May 2024

Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers to improve the health of a watershed. This is the first Rouge River Watershed Report Card. It is the collective effort of dozens of stakeholders throughout the Rouge River watershed. Indicators in the report card were selected to assess the health of six different values in the watershed:

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Southeast Michigan Report Card (Arabic) (Page 1)

Southeast Michigan Report Card (Arabic)

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton, Anikka Fife ·
3 May 2024

Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers to improve the health of a watershed. This is the first Southeast Michigan Report Card, which provides an overall socio-environmental assessment of Southeast Michigan based on the combined scores from six river watersheds: Clinton, Detroit, Huron, River Raisin, and Rouge.

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Clinton River Watershed Report Card (Page 1)

Clinton River Watershed Report Card

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton, Anikka Fife ·
16 April 2024

Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers to improve the health of a watershed. This is the first Clinton River Watershed Report Card. It is the collective effort of dozens of stakeholders throughout the Clinton River watershed. Indicators in the report card were selected to assess the health of six different values in the watershed:

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Detroit River Watershed Report Card (Page 1)

Detroit River Watershed Report Card

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton ·
16 April 2024

Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers to improve the health of a watershed. This is the first Detroit River Watershed Report Card. It is the collective effort of dozens of stakeholders throughout the Detroit River watershed. Indicators in the report card were selected to assess the health of six different values in the watershed:

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Huron River Watershed Report Card (Page 1)

Huron River Watershed Report Card

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton, Anikka Fife ·
16 April 2024

Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers to improve the health of a watershed. This is the first Huron River Watershed Report Card. It is the collective effort of dozens of stakeholders throughout the Huron River watershed. Indicators in the report card were selected to assess the health of six different values in the watershed:

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River Raisin Watershed Report Card (Page 1)

River Raisin Watershed Report Card

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton, Anikka Fife ·
16 April 2024

Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers to improve the health of a watershed. This is the first River Raisin Watershed Report Card. It is the collective effort of dozens of stakeholders throughout the River Raisin watershed. Indicators in the report card were selected to assess the health of six different values in the watershed:

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Rouge River Watershed Report Card (Page 1)

Rouge River Watershed Report Card

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton, Anikka Fife ·
16 April 2024

Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers to improve the health of a watershed. This is the first Rouge River Watershed Report Card. It is the collective effort of dozens of stakeholders throughout the Rouge River watershed. Indicators in the report card were selected to assess the health of six different values in the watershed:

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Southeast Michigan Report Card (Page 1)

Southeast Michigan Report Card

Heath Kelsey, Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Ann Foo, Nathan Miller, Joe Edgerton, Anikka Fife ·
16 April 2024

Watershed report cards are powerful tools to describe ecosystem status, increase public awareness, and inform and influence decision makers to improve the health of a watershed. This is the first Southeast Michigan Report Card, which provides an overall socio-environmental assessment of Southeast Michigan based on the combined scores from six river watersheds: Clinton, Detroit, Huron, River Raisin, and Rouge.

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Evaluating water-quality trends in agricultural watersheds prioritized for management-practice implementation (Page 1)

Evaluating water-quality trends in agricultural watersheds prioritized for management-practice implementation

Webber J, Chanat J, Clune J, Devereux O, Hall N, Sabo RD, Zhang Q ·
2024

Many agricultural watersheds rely on the voluntary use of management practices (MPs) to reduce nonpoint source nutrient and sediment loads; however, the water-quality effects of MPs are uncertain. We interpreted water-quality responses from as early as 1985 through 2020 in three agricultural Chesapeake Bay watersheds that were prioritized for MP implementation, namely, the Smith Creek (Virginia), Upper Chester River (Maryland), and Conewago Creek (Pennsylvania) watersheds.

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Legacy sediment as a potential source of orthophosphate: Preliminary conceptual and geochemical models for the Susquehanna River, Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA (Page 1)

Legacy sediment as a potential source of orthophosphate: Preliminary conceptual and geochemical models for the Susquehanna River, Chesapeake Bay watershed, USA

Cravotta III CA, Tasker TL, Smyntek PM, Blomquist JD, Clune JW, Zhang Q, Schmadel NM, Schmer NK ·
2024

Nutrient pollution from agriculture and urban areas plus acid mine drainage (AMD) from legacy coal mines are primary causes of water-quality impairment in the Susquehanna River, which is the predominant source of freshwater and nutrients entering the Chesapeake Bay.

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