Environmental Impacts
caused by excess nitrogen and phosphorus from synthetic fertilizers and manure that wash into lakes and rivers.
Algal Blooms
When pesticides flow into drinkable water, it contaminates it and municipalities are forced to spend more money to purify it.
Expensive Water Treatment:
When the water is full of dangerous material and elevates cancer risks.
Contaminated Water
Leaving this undisturbed from planting to harvesting
Soil
Excess fertilizers, pesticides, and manure
an area called when rapid algal blooms, consume all of the oxygen leaving none for the rest of the aquatic life.
Dead Zones
When chemicals from farming fields not only kill fish but also damage raw shellfish beds, reducing demands.
Fishery & Shellfish damage
Heavy metals, pesticides, and animal waste into waterways, which can cause viral and bacterial infections in humans and pets upon contact causing..
Public Health risks
Planting these to uptake residual nutrients
Cover crops
The nutrients that dissolve in the water
nitrogen and phosphorus
When sediment smothers eggs of native fish and blocks sunlight reaching aquatic plants.
Habitat-Smothering
When toxins in the water prevents tourists from doings activities like boating, swimming, surfing, etc. Making companies lose money
Loss of Recreational Revenue
When high bacteria and toxic algal blooms make it impossible for tourists to boat, fish, and swim.
Recreational losses
Installing these barrels to conserve water
Rain barrels
Who is affected by Ag Water runoff?
the Biosphere
When herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides carried in the runoff contaminate surrounding streams and disrupt natural water sources.
Chemical Toxicity
When contaminated water and foul-smelling algal blooms prevent people from buying house near the water affecting...
Property Values
When many local governments and companies are forced to carry the burden of contamination effects.
Economic strain
Types of gardens that absorb storm water runoff
Rain Gardens
What sediment blocks from happening
Fish eggs and aquatic vegetation from growing
when runoff seeps into the ground and disrupts sensitive ecosystems.
Groundwater Contamination
The people are forced to gather in large groups to perform..
Massive Clean-Ups
The people who work in that field that are exposed to many harmful bacteria and pathogens
Exposed workers
What to maintain to intercept water run-off
vegetated buffer strips
Roughly how much did U.S. economy spend annually in damages and management
2 BILLION