Nutrient Control Actions for Improving Water Quality in the Mississippi River Basin and Northern Gulf of Mexico

• Main Authors: National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Water Science and Technology Board, Committee on the Mississippi River and the Clean Water Act: Scientific, Modeling, and Technical Aspects of Nutrient Pollutant Load Allocation and Implementation
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, D.C National Academies Press 01.07.2009
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Agricultural pollution; Agricultural pollution-Environmental aspects-United States; Eutrophication; Eutrophication-United States; Fertilizers; Fertilizers-Environmental aspects-United States; Hypoxia (Water); Hypoxia (Water)-Mexico, Gulf of; Marine eutrophication; Marine eutrophication-Mexico, Gulf of; Nonpoint source pollution; Nonpoint source pollution-United States; Nutrient pollution of water; Nutrient pollution of water-Mississippi River; Water; Water-Pollution-United States; Watershed management; Watershed management-United States

A large area of coastal waters in the northern Gulf of Mexico experiences seasonal conditions of low levels of dissolved oxygen, a condition known as hypoxia. Excess discharge of nutrients into the Gulf of Mexico from the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers causes nutrient overenrichment in the gulf&...