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3 Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Water Quality Monitoring
Pages 27-34

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... IMPORTANCE OF ACTION-ORIENTED MONITORING AND EVALUATION Managing nutrients across the Mississippi River basin and achieving related water quality goals is a tremendous challenge on several scales of both space and time. There is much to be learned about the overall system in order to determine the most effective actions to implement.
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... Several workshop participants noted the value of "paired watershed" studies, which have documented benefits of improved nitrogen fertilizer
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... Workshop participants generally supported expansion of the number of paired watershed studies in the Mississippi River basin. Several workshop participants noted the importance of monitoring system design, and in this context it is useful to distinguish managementlevel monitoring and research-grade monitoring.
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... There are great opportunities for additional studies and research and that can take the form of polls of farmer attitudes, perceptions, and priorities regarding nutrient reduction practices (see Arbuckle, 2013) , models of economic choice and preference, and how rates of adoption vary across among various agricultural and conservation practices.
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... , are useful for establishing load allocations to point and nonpoint sources, but are less useful in evaluating the effectiveness of agricultural practices, or factors responsible for trends. There was some discussion among workshop participants about building models that can help bridge from small scale to large watershed scale.
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... More and better coordinated interstate and interagency collaboration in monitoring is fundamental to consistent and efficient monitoring programs, particularly for large rivers that form boundaries between states. Workshop participants noted the limited interstate coordination in the Mississippi River basin on issues relating to hypoxia in the Gulf of Mexico.
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... Workshop participants also noted the growing interest in nutrient trading, and the exploration of nutrient trading along the Ohio River by ORSANCO in partnership with the Electric Power Research Institute. Participants felt that nutrient trading schemes offer promise for nutrient management, but will require reliable, targeted monitoring for implementation.
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