Agricultural watersheds overview data analysis and extrapolation

Abstract

The subject of this report is the "overview" analysis of the monitoring data collected during the 1975-1977 intensive study phase of the Agricultural Watershed Studies. The report outlines the methodology and rational for the selection of suitable monitoring sites, the methods used for water quality and quantity data acquisition, the estimation of watershed characteristics, and the statistical analyses of the variance within the data sets. Finally, some conclusions are drawn which are applied to an extrapolation model which attempts to determine areas of the lower Canadian Great Lakes Basin which fall into selected ranges of pollutant contribution rates to streams.