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Characteristics:

› Each Stream Is Unique

› Focus on Headwaters

› Encourage Local Participation

› Collaborate with Others

› Healthy Environment, Healthy Community

› A Holistic Approach

Related Information:

› Geography of the Sugar Creek Area

› Social Factors

› Water Quality & Testing

› Best Practices Implemented at Sugar Creek

› History of the Project

 Testing sites in the Sugar Creek

Water Quality and Testing Along the Sugar Creek

I. GIS Analysis  (next)  (return to Water Quality page outline)

We delineated the drainage basins above each water quality sample point using the digital elevation model (DEM) and the US Army Corps of Engineer's HEC-GeoHMS, a basin pre-processing program designed for Acrview ver. 3.2.

  • Once sub-basins were delineated using HEC-GeoHMS, we integrated the NRCS Soil Survey mapping units and calculated several physical parameters of each sub-basin, including mean slope and drainage class.
  • We also clipped the Land Use/Land Cover data from the 1994 Wayne County dataset acquired from the Ohio Department of Natural Resource (ODNR) for each sub-basin. Land Use/Land Cover categories included: water, wetlands, forest, croplands, confined feedlots, pasture, farmsteads, industrial lands, and residential lands.
  • The area associated with each land use/land cover category was then calculated for each sub-basin.
 

 

Sugar Creek Method Overview | Each Stream Is Unique | Focus on Headwaters | Encourage Local Participation | Collaborate with Others | Healthy Environment, Healthy Community | A Holistic Approach

For more information about the Sugar Creek Method contact Richard H. Moore (moore.11@osu.edu),  Associate Professor, Human and Community Resource Development, The Ohio State University.