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Development of the Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process for Determining Environmental Flows for New Jersey Streams
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Development of the Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process for Determining Environmental Flows for New Jersey Streams
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4851
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http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/usgspubs/sir/sir20075206
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore00000002074.Document.000054040
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environmental data
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environmental monitoring
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rivers
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water
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streamflow
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streams
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surface water
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Ecological Flow Goals
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flow
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hydroecological
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New Jersey
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United States
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New Jersey
Abstract
The U.S. Geological Survey, in cooperation with the New Jersey Department of Enviromental Protection, undertook a project to identify or develop a methodology for establishing environmental-flow standards for regulatory and planning purposes that will sustain stream communities in New Jersey. This project was called the Ecological Flow Goals (EFG) project. This report: (1) Describes the initial goal of the EFG project and the approach taken to help achieve that goal; (2) Compares some established environmental flow methods, reviews important stream ecosystem concepts, and examines the critical hydrologic research that represents the framework for the environmental flow process presented herein; (3) Describes the development of a new environmental flow assessment process-the Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process (HIP). Application of the HIP includes a hydrologic classification of streams in New Jersey, and the development of software tools for classifying unclassified streams (the New Jersey Stream Classification Tool (NJSCT)) and for establishing a baseline (reference) time period, comparing and contrasting past and proposed streamflow alterations, and providing options for setting environmental-flow standards at the reach scale (the New Jersey Hydrologic Assessment Tool (NJHAT)); and (4) Provides example management applications using the NJSCT and the NJHAT for an analysis of land-use changes that are known to alter streamflow, and a series of scenarios of direct surface-water withdrawals from an unregulated stream.
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65 p., map, tables, graphs, ill., color photo
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Prepared in cooperation with New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). Scientific Investigations Report 2007-5206.
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Purpose: To describe the development of the Hydroecological Integrity Assessment Process for determining environmental flows for New Jersey streams
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Kennen, Jonathan G.
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Henriksen, James A.
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Nieswand, Steven P.
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2007
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West Trenton, NJ 08628
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U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
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2008-03-27 00:00:00.0
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Karen Hanson
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doi:10.7282/T3RR1Z82
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