Vegetation Buffer Strips Design Using an Optimization Approach for Non-Point Source Pollutant Control of an Agricultural Watershed

Water Resources Management

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 565-578

  Qi, Honghai ^a   Altinakar, Mustafa S ^b  

^a NMP Engineering Consultants Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

Integrated watershed management; Non point source pollution; Optimization; Tabu search; Vegetation buffer strips; Water quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; CULTIVATION; DESIGN; INTEGRATED CONTROL; ITERATIVE METHODS; LAND USE; OPTIMIZATION; PROFITABILITY; SOIL CONSERVATION; TABU SEARCH; VEGETATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

AGRICULTURAL NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTIONS; BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES; BUFFER STRIP; HEURISTIC OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUE; INTEGRATED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT; MULTI-OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTANTS; NON-POINT SOURCE POLLUTION;

WATER POLLUTION;

BUFFER ZONE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MULTIOBJECTIVE PROGRAMMING; NONPOINT SOURCE POLLUTION; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTION CONTROL; VEGETATION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

GOODWIN CREEK; MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78751580414     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9714-9     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. AgEcon Enterprise Budgets (2005) including budgets of corn, rice, soybeans, cottons, vegetables. (http://www. agecon. msstate. edu/Research/budgets. php?t=2005), Department of Agricultural Economics, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS.
2. Agricultural Handbook No 537 (1978) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Dec 1978 and Jul 1996, Washington D. C.
3. Agricultural Handbook No 703 (1996) United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Dec 1978 and Jul 1996, Washington D. C.
4. Arabi M (2005) A modeling framework for evaluation of watershed management practices for sediment and nutrient control. PhD Dissertation, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.
5. Cronshey RG, Theurer FG (1998) AnnAGNPS non-point pollutant loading model. In: Proceedings of the first federal interagency-hydrologic modeling conf., Las Vegas, Nevada, pp 1-9-1-16.
6. Gilliam JW (1994) Riparian wetlands and water quality. J Environ Qual 23: 896-900.
7. Gitau MW (2003) A quantitative assessment of BMP effectiveness for phosphorus pollution control: the Town Brook Watershed. NY, Ph. D. Dissertation, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.
8. Glover F, Laguna M (1997) Tabu search. Kluwer, Dordrecht.
9. Holvoet K, Gevaert V, van Griensven A, Seuntjens P, Vanrolleghem PA (2007) Modelling the effectiveness of agricultural measures to reduce the amount of pesticides entering surface waters. Water Resour Manag 21(12): 2027-2035.
10. Laguna M, Marti R (2002) The OptQuest callable library, Optimization software class libraries. Kluwer, Boston.
11. Lin CY, Chou WC, Lin WT (2002) Modeling the width and placement of riparian vegetated buffer strips: a case study on the Chi-Jia-Wang Stream, Taiwan. J Environ Manag 66: 269-280.
12. Qi H (2007) Integrated watershed management and agricultural landuse optimization under uncertainty. PhD Dissertation, The University of Mississippi, Oxford.
13. Qi H, Altinakar M, Vieira DAN, Alidaee B (2005) Optimized land use planning for integrated management of Goodwin Creek Watershed in Mississippi. In: Proceedings of American Water Resources Association (AWRA) annual conference, Seattle.
14. Qi H, Altinakar M, Vieira DAN, Alidaee B (2008) Application of Tabu search algorithm with a coupled AnnAGNPS-CCHE1D model to optimize agricultural land use. J Am Water Resour Assoc (AWRA) 44(3): 866-878.
15. Schwab GO, Fangmeier DD, Elliot WJ, Frevert RK (1993) Soil and water conservation engineering. Wiley, New York.
16. Srivastava P, Hamlett JM, Robillard PD, Day RL (2002) Watershed optimization of best management practices using AnnAGNPS and a genetic algorithm. Water Resour Res 38(2): 3-1-3-14.
17. Tim US, Jolly R, Liao H-H (1995) Impact of landscape feature and feature placement on agricultural non-point-source-pollutant control. J Water Resour Plan Manage 121(6): 463-470.
18. Veith TL (2002) Agricultural BMP placement for cost-effective pollution control at the watershed level. PhD Dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg.
19. Wang SSY, Wu W, Hsia HM, Cheng CC (2002) Simulation of flood and sediment routing in Ping-Chang River and Pu-Tze River of Taiwan using CCHE1D model. In: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on hydroscience and engineering, Warsaw, Poland.
20. Zhen JX, Yu SL, Lin JY (2004) Optimal location and sizing of stormwater basins at watershed scale. J Water Resour Plan Manage 130(3): 339-347.