Effects of Livestock Wastes on Small Illinois Streams: Lower Kaskaskia RiverBasin and Upper Little Wabash River Basins, Summer 1991

摘要

In early 1991, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (IEPA) initiated aninvestigation to evaluate livestock waste runoff in southern Illinois. The primary objectives of this survey were to document stream quality impairments caused by livestock waste runoff, and ultimately, the need for better waste management practices, waste management systems, and funding for such systems. Information provided by Soil Conservation Service (SCS) and IEPA Agricultural staff identified an area in Clinton and Bond Counties in the Kaskaskia River basin and several upper Little Wabash River basin tributaries in Effingham and Cumberland Counties as candidate project areas.