A validation study of a rapid field-based rating system for discriminating among flow permanence classes of headwater streams in South Carolina

William Wenerick; Ken M. Fritz; Mitchell S. Kostich

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A validation study of a rapid field-based rating system for discriminating among flow permanence classes of headwater streams in South Carolina

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Authors:

William Wenerick, Ken M. Fritz, Mitchell S. Kostich

Year:

2016

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Southern Research Station

Source:

In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical Report SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 302 p.

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Abstract

Classifying streams according to permanence is important in determining regulatory jurisdiction and in implementing pollution control programs. Administrators of these programs need rapid methods for making timely and defensible decisions.

Parent Publication

Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management - Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds

Citation

Wenerick, William; Fritz, Ken M.; Kostich, Mitchell S. 2016. A validation study of a rapid field-based rating system for discriminating among flow permanence classes of headwater streams in South Carolina. In: Stringer, Christina E.; Krauss, Ken W.; Latimer, James S., eds. 2016. Headwaters to estuaries: advances in watershed science and management -Proceedings of the Fifth Interagency Conference on Research in the Watersheds. March 2-5, 2015, North Charleston, South Carolina. e-General Technical Report SRS-211. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 1 p.