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ACHIEVING IRRIGATION RETURN FLOW QUALITY CONTROL THROUGH IMPROVED LEGAL SYSTEMS
Citation:
Radosevich, G. AND G. Skogerboe. ACHIEVING IRRIGATION RETURN FLOW QUALITY CONTROL THROUGH IMPROVED LEGAL SYSTEMS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/2-78/184.
Description:
The key to irrigated agricultural return flow quality control is proper utilization and management of the resource itself, and an accepted tool in out society is the law. This project is designed to develop legal alternatives that will facilitate the implementation of improved water management technologies developed to reduce and control salinity, sediment, nutrients, and other forms of water pollution emanating from agricultural uses of water and other primary agricultural inputs for crop production. Recommendations for Federal and state activities to achieve irrigation return flow quality control include an action program termed the 'influent control approach'. The basic and required components of such a program are outlined and discussed.