2012 Mississippi Water Resources Conference Jackson Hilton Jackson, MS 2012 Mississippi Water Resources Conference Hilton Jackson Jackson, MS EXHIBITORS: SPONSORS: Florence & Hutcheson Inc. Delta Council Mississippi Water Resources G.E.C. Inc. Florence & Hutcheson Inc. Association Mississippi Department of G.E.C. Inc. Mississippi Water Resources Environmental Quality Michael Hatcher & Associates Inc. Research Institute Pickering Firm Inc. Mississippi Department of U.S. Geological Survey U.S. Geological Survey Environmental Quality Weyerhaeuser Company MSU Department of Geosciences Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee MSU Department of Landscape Board Architecture CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS: Mississippi Water Resources Research Institute | Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality Mississippi Water Resources Association | U.S. Geological Survey 2012 Mississippi Water Resources Conference Contents Poster Session Soil Moisture and Watershed Assessment to Predict Wildfire Occurences in the Southeast of United States ...............................................................................................................................................................2 Eduardo Arias-Araujo, Diaz-Ramirez, J.; Cooke, W. Efficacy of Manufactured Wood Shavings to Mitigate Marsh Land Impacts Associated With Deep Water Oil Spills .............................................................................................................................................................3 Hamid Borazjani, Seale, R Assessment of Improved Sensors to Monitor Water Used for Irrigation in the Mississippi Delta ........................ 10 David E. Burt, Kröger, R.; Miranda, L. Measuring Fallout Plutonium and Lead Isotopes in Sediment Using ICPMS for Dating Purposes .................... 11 James Cizdziel, Chakravarty, P. Identifying Fish Guilds Relative to Water Quality and Depth in Oxbow Lakes of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley ............................................................................................................................................................21 Daniel Goetz, Kröger, R.; Miranda, L. Comparison of Indigenous and Selected Pentachlorophenol (PCP) Degrading Bacterial Consortiums for Remediation of PCP Contaminated Groundwater ............................................................................................. 22 Vaibhav V. Joshi, Prewitt, M.; Borazjani, H.; Willeford, K. Formaldehyde Released in Leachate from Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF) Buried in a Simulated Landfill ......................................................................................................................................................30 Min Lee, Prewitt, M.; Borazjani, H.; Mun, S. Preliminary Results from a New Ground-Water Network in Northeastern Mississippi ........................................ 37 Michael A. Manning, Rose, C.; Welch, H.; Coupe, R. SPONSORS: The Buttahatchie River Stabilization Project .......................................................................................................... 38 Brad Maurer Laymen, Experts, NGOs, and Institutions in Watershed Management............................................................... 52 Giusy Pappalardo Assessment of the Ecological Value of Low-Grade Weirs in Agricultural Drainage Ditches ........................... 60 Beth Poganski, Kröger, R. Assessing and Modeling Sediment Loads from Stream Corridor Erosion along the Town Creek in Mississippi ....................................................................................................................................................................61 John J. Ramirez-Avila, Langendoen, E.; McAnally, W.; Ortega-Achury, S.; Martin, J.; Bingner, R. iii 2012 Mississippi Water Resources Conference Contents Rainfall Simulation to Evaluate Nutrient Loss from Marietta Soil Amended with Poultry and Cattle Manure ...........................................................................................................................................................62 John J. Read, McLaughlin, M.; Adeli, A. Effects of Immobilizing Agents on Surface Runoff Water Quality from Bermudagrass Sod Fertilized with Broiler Litter ............................................................................................................................................................................63 Jing Sheng, Adeli, A.; Brooks, J.; McLaughlin, M. Sedimentation Processes in Perdido Bay ............................................................................................................... 64 Natalie Sigsby, McAnally, W.; Sigsby, N. Hydrologic Regimes of Bottomland Hardwood Forests in the Mississippi Alluvial Valley and Gulf Coastal Plain and the Impact on Red Oak Acorn Production .......................................................................................... 65 Johnathan Sloan, Hatten, J. Sediment and Mercury Fate and Path Modeling in Weeks Bay, Alabama ...................................................... 66 Jennifer Sloan-Ziegler, Camacho-Rincon, R.; Martin, J.; McAnally, W. Monitoring Success of Mississippi’s Delta Nutrient Reduction Strategies—Steele Bayou ................................. 67 Shane Stocks, Hicks, M. Proposal of the Total Human Ecosystem on Blakeley Island, Mobile AL ............................................................ 68 Long Zhou Best Management Practices Field-Scale Monitoring of Agricultural Ditches as Conduits of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Suspended Sediment in Response to Storm Events and Low-Input Drainage Management: A Case-study of the Tchula Lake Farm ......................................................................................................................................................70 Samuel C. Pierce, Kröger, R.; Prevost, D.; Pierce, T. Nutrient and Suspended Sediment Mitigation Through the Use of a Vegetated Ditch System Fitted with Consecutive Low-Grade Weirs ............................................................................................................................... 84 Corrin Flora, Kröger, R. Runoff Quality Effects of Simulated Conservation Practice Scenarios in a Mississippi Delta’s Watershed .................................................................................................................................................................93 J.J. Ramirez-Avila, Ortega-Achury, S.; McAnally, W.; Daiz, J.; Martin, J. The Mississippi Nutrient Management Manual: Simplifying Availability of Maintenance-Based Fertilizer Recommendations and Nutrient Best Management Practices.......................................................................... 94 Larry Oldham Downstream Water Quality and Quantity Impacts Of Water Storage Systems in a Mississippi Delta Watershed .................................................................................................................................................................95 Mary Love Tagert, Paz, P.; Pote, J.; Kirmeyer, R. iv 2012 Mississippi Water Resources Conference Contents Low-Grade Weirs: An Innovative Best Management Practice for nitrate-N Mitigation ................................... 96 Alex Littlejohn, Kröger, R.; Moore, M.; Farris, J. Evaluation and Validation of a Decision Support System for Selection and Placement of BMPs in the Mississippi Delta .........................................................................................................................................................97 Sandra Ortega-Achury, Kröger, R.; Ramirez-Avila, J.; Diaz, J. Best Management Practices in the MS Delta: What Are We Learning? .......................................................... 108 Robert Kröger, Prevost, J.; Cooke, T. Delta Water Assessment The Great Flood of 2011 and its Influence on the Mississippi River Valley Alluvial Aquifer: Did the River Recharge the Aquifer or What?............................................................................................................................ 110 Amanda Roberts Snapshot Through Time of “The Hole” in the MRVA of the Central Delta (Sunflower and Leflore County) ..................................................................................................................................................................................111 Paul Parrish Develop Hydrological Relationships Using a Modeling Approach in Mississippi Delta .................................. 112 Priyantha Jayakody, Parajuli, P., Sassenrath, G. Nitrogen Dynamics within the Big Sunflower River Basin in Northwestern Mississippi ............................... 113 Jeannie R.B. Barlow, Coupe, R., Kröger, R. Flood Assessment and Management Flooding Concerns on the Lower Pearl River Near Walkiah Bluff ...................................................................... 115 Amanda L. Roberts Movement of Agricultural Chemicals and Sediment Through the Lower Mississippi River Basin During the 2011 Flood, April through July ................................................................................................................................ 127 Heather Welch, Aulenbach, B., Coupe, R. Water-quality of the Yazoo River During the 2011 Mississippi River Flood ........................................................ 128 Marcia S. Woods, Rose, C., Coupe, R. Flood Inundation Mapping for the Leaf River at the City of Hattiesburg, MS ................................................. 129 John Storm v 2012 Mississippi Water Resources Conference Contents Wetlands Nutrient Characteristics of Moist-Soil Wetlands in Agriculture