H028
A Race against Time: Legacy Effects of Land Use on Water Quality, Watershed Processes, and Ecosystem Function

Session ID#: 82178

Session Description:
Human activity over decades of agriculture, resource extraction, and urbanization has led to an accumulation of sediments, nutrients, and contaminants within the landscape.  These legacies can influence water quality, watershed processes, and ecosystem functions over decades and centuries, with legacy-associated lag times presenting unique challenges for contemporary and future watershed management and water quality policies. In this session, we address both the science and policy issues related to legacy effects on water quality, watershed processes, and ecosystem functions. Studies using experimental approaches, data synthesis, and modeling are welcome. Examples of relevant topics may include sediment legacies in landscapes, accumulation of non-point source nutrients (e.g., nitrogen and phosphorus) in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, contaminants in brownfields, accumulation of road salts and salinization of our waterways, long-term impacts of forest management and fires, legacy of mined lands, and long term trends in acid deposition and lake recovery.
Index Terms:

1803 Anthropogenic effects [HYDROLOGY]
1831 Groundwater quality [HYDROLOGY]
1834 Human impacts [HYDROLOGY]
1871 Surface water quality [HYDROLOGY]

Primary Convener:  Nandita B Basu, University of Waterloo, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Waterloo, ON, Canada and Shreeram Inamdar
Conveners:  Shreeram P Inamdar, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, Meter, Kimberly Van, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada and Shreeram Inamdar
Primary Liaison:  Meter, Kimberly Van, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada and Shreeram Inamdar
 
Groundwater Storage of Seasonally-Applied Road Salt in an Urban Watershed (489213)
John R Slosson1, Laura Lautz2 and Julio Beltran2, (1)Syracuse University, Earth Sciences, Syracuse, NY, United States, (2)Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, United States
 
Legacy phosphorus and climate change: how the past and future matter for lake water quality (Invited) (503314)
Melissa Motew1, Xi Chen2, Stephen R Carpenter3, Eric Booth3 and Christopher J Kucharik4, (1)US Dairy Forage Research Center, Madison, WI, United States, (2)University of Cincinnati Main Campus, Cincinnati, OH, United States, (3)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (4)Univ Wisconsin Madison, Department of Agronomy, Madison, WI, United States
 
Multi-decadal salinity trends in US rivers: Regional patterns and linkages to changes in land use, hydrology, and climate (505767)
Gretchen P Oelsner, U.S. Geological Survey, New Mexico Water Science Center, Albuquerque, NM, United States
 
Effects of contemporary and legacy agricultural phosphorus on U.S. river water quality (506875)
Sarah M Stackpoole, USGS Central Region Offices Denver, Denver, CO, United States, Edward Stets, U.S. Geological Survey, National Research Program, Boulder, CO, United States and Lori A. Sprague, USGS Headquarters, National Water Quality Program, Reston, VA, United States
 
Riverine Legacies (Invited) (506949)
Ellen Wohl, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Fort Collins, CO, United States
 
Analyzing the Effects of Cover Crops and Climate Change on Nutrient Runoff in Midwestern Agricultural Watersheds (507229)
Nima Ehsani1, Jennifer Leah Tank1, Alan F Hamlet2, Todd V Royer3, Ursula H Mahl1, Matt T Trentman4, Shannon L Speir5 and Kyuhyun Byun6, (1)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (2)University of Notre Dame, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States, (3)Indiana University Bloomington, School of Policy and Environmental Affairs, Bloomington, IN, United States, (4)Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, United States, (5)University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, United States, (6)University of Notre Dame, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, Notre Dame, IN, United States
 
Effects of fertilizer legacies and saltwater incursion on water quality in a restored coastal wetland (507300)
Marcelo Ardon, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States and Emily S Bernhardt, Duke University, Department of Biology, Durham, NC, United States
 
Geochemical factors affecting the transport and reactivity of metal and pyrite colloids in soils developing on coal mine spoil (507432)
Md Abu Raihan Chowdhury1, David M Singer1 and Elizabeth Herndon2, (1)Kent State University Kent Campus, Kent, OH, United States, (2)Kent State University, Kent, OH, United States
 
Using High-Frequency Data and Concentration-Discharge Relationships to Describe Solute Mobilization and Transport in Suburban and Urban Watersheds (508681)
Melinda Marsh, Towson University, Towson, MD, United States and Joel Moore, Towson University, Physics, Astronomy, & Geosciences, Towson, MD, United States
 
Temporal and Spatial Analysis of Climate Driven Deterioration of Acid Mine Drainage Impacted Watersheds Across Colorado (510001)
Tanya Petach, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States and Diane M McKnight, University of Colorado at Boulder, INSTAAR, Boulder, CO, United States
 
Streambank legacy sediments in aquatic ecosystems: nutrient source or sink? (516869)
Shreeram P Inamdar1, Nathan Sienkiewicz2, Alyssa Lutgen1, Grant Jiang3 and Jinjun Kan4, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Delaware, Plant and Soil Sciences, Newark, DE, United States, (3)University of Delaware, Newark, United States, (4)Stroud Water Research Center, Avondale, PA, United States
 
The Influence of Planting of Fast-growing Eucalyptus on Hydrochemical Characteristics and Nitrogen Pollution Sources of Reservoirs Water (532837)
Yanrong Zhao, Fenggen Yang, Xufen Zhu, Pei Lv, Rong Rong and Meng Li, Hohai University, Nanjing, China
 
Phosphorus Legacies in Lake Erie Watersheds: Data Analysis and Model Development (542516)
Lamisa Malik, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, Meter, Kimberly Van, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago, United States and Nandita B Basu, University of Waterloo, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada
 
Riparian Vegetation Community Composition After Legacy Sediment Removal and Floodplain Reconnection Projects (543912)
Vanessa Beauchamp, Towson University, Biological Sciences, Towson, MD, United States, Patrick Baltzer, Towson University, Environmental Science and Studies, Towson, MD, United States and Joel Moore, Towson University, Physics, Astronomy, & Geosciences, Towson, MD, United States
 
Long-term nitrogen concentration saturation in river corridors weakens removal capacity and increases regional export (546809)
Noah M Schmadel1, Jud W Harvey1, Richard B Alexander1, Elizabeth W Boyer2, Gregory E Schwarz3, Jesus D Gomez-Velez4, Durelle Scott5 and Christopher P Konrad6, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States, (2)Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, United States, (3)United States Geological Survey (USGS), Reston, VA, United States, (4)Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, United States, (5)Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States, (6)U.S. Geological Survey, Tacoma, WA, United States
 
Influence of groundwater residence time on biogeochemical transformation after legacy sediment removal from a headwater stream in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (549641)
Michelle Audie1, Paul M Mayer2, J Renee Brooks2, Dorothy Merritts3, Robert C. Walter3 and James H. Power4, (1)Philadelphia, PA, United States, (2)U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Corvallis, Western Ecology Division, Ecological Effects Branch, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Franklin and Marshall College, Department of Earth and Environment, and The Water Science Institute, Lancaster, PA, United States, (4)United States Environmental Protection Agency, Western Ecology Division Ecological Effects Branch, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
Deploying Earth Observations to Evaluate the Impacts of Land Cover and Water Quality Changes to Improve Coastal Management in American Samoa (554196)
Marshall Worsham1, Melissa Collin1, Eric Davis1 and Arev Markarian2, (1)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA DEVELOP Program - ARC, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (2)Science Systems and Applications, Inc., NASA DEVELOP Program - ARC, Moffett Field, United States
 
What is driving nitrogen concentration changes over time in US streams? Results from the U.S. EPA National Rivers and Streams Assessments (2000-2014) (556620)
Jiajia Lin1, Ryan A Hill2, Robert Daniel Sabo3, Alan Herlihy4, Marc Weber4, Stephen D LeDuc5, Brian Pickard6, J Renee Brooks7, Chris Clark8, Scott G Leibowitz9, John Stoddard4 and Jana Compton10, (1)National Academy of Sciences, Corvallis, OR, United States, (2)ORISE Postdoctoral Fellow, c/o US EPA WED, Corvallis, OR, United States, (3)Environmental Protection Agency, Exposure Analysis and Risk Characterization Group, Washington, DC, United States, (4)Environmental Protection Agency Corvallis, Western Ecology Division, Corvallis, OR, United States, (5)Environmental Protection Agency Arlington, National Center for Environmental Assessment, Arlington, VA, United States, (6)TetraTech, Research Triangle Park, NC, United States, (7)U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Corvallis, Western Ecology Division, Ecological Effects Branch, Corvallis, OR, United States, (8)Environmental Protection Agency Arlington, Arlington, VA, United States, (9)US EPA, Western Ecology Division, Corvallis, OR, United States, (10)U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Corvallis, Western Ecology Division, Freshwater Ecology Branch, Corvallis, OR, United States
 
A Coupled Modelling and Observing System Testbed to Assess Water Quality in the Lake George, New York Watershed (564868)
Lloyd A. Treinish1, Campbell Watson2, Guillaume Auger3, Eli Michael Dow4, Mukul Tewari2, Michael E Henderson3, Anthony P Praino3, Michael Kelly5, Vincent W Moriarty2, John Ma1, Michael Passow5, Alberto Costa Nogueira JR6, Alvaro Bueno Buoro7 and Harry Kolar2, (1)IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Environmental Science, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States, (2)IBM Research USA, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States, (3)IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States, (4)IBM Yorktown Heights, Yorktown Heights, NY, United States, (5)IBM Research USA, Yorktown Heights, United States, (6)IBM Research Brazil, Sao Paulo, Brazil, (7)IBM Research Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
 
Shifting Hotspots and Dominant Controls: Typologies of Nitrogen Surplus across Conterminous U.S. (567838)
Danyka Byrnes1, Kimberly J Van Meter2 and Nandita B Basu1, (1)University of Waterloo, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)University of Illinois at Chicago, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Chicago, IL, United States
 
Mixed groundwater contamination from Past and Present sources-Potential issues of Future (572477)
Eun Hye Kwon1, Jonghoon Park1, Won-Bae Park2, Bong-Rae Kang2 and Nam C Woo1, (1)Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Jeju Research Institute, Jeju, South Korea
 
Short and long-term water impacts from unconventional gas development: what are the odds? (578650)
Margaret Shanafield, Flinders University, Science and Engineering, Bedford Park, SA, Australia, Peter G Cook, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia and Craig T Simmons, National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training, Adelaide, Australia
 
Old sins in new fins – Legacy mining pollution in mountain ecosystems and its bioavailabilty to contemporary aquatic biota (578961)
Sophia Veronica Hansson, CNRS, EcoLab, Toulouse, France, Gael Le Roux, CNRS, EcoLab / Campus Ensat, Castanet-Tolosan, France and TRAM-team
 
High-Frequency Data Reveals Deicing Salt Application Causes Elevated and Increasing Conductivity and Chloride along with Widespread Exceedances of Chloride Water Quality Criteria in Urban Eastern US Streams (593662)
Joel Moore, Towson University, Environmental Science & Studies, Towson, MD, United States; Towson University, Physics, Astronomy, & Geosciences, Towson, MD, United States, Rosemary Fanelli, U.S. Geological Survey, South Atlantic Water Science Center, Raleigh, MD, United States and Andrew Sekellick, USGS Maryland/Delaware/District of Columbia Water Science Center, Baltimore, MD, United States
 
Water Futures: Legacy Nitrogen and Chesapeake Bay Water Quality (594897)
Shuyu Chang1, Qian Zhang2, Danyka Byrnes3, Nandita B Basu3 and Meter, Kimberly Van4, (1)University of Illinois at Chicago, Earth and Environmental Science Department, Chicago, IL, United States, (2)University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, MD, United States, (3)University of Waterloo, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (4)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
 
Export of Nitrogen and Sediments Following Legacy Sediment Removal and Floodplain Reconnection Restoration Projects (604646)
Patrick McMahon1, Joel Moore2, Vanessa Beauchamp3, Ryan Casey4 and Christopher Salice3, (1)Towson University, Towson, MD, United States, (2)Towson University, Physics, Astronomy, & Geosciences, Towson, MD, United States, (3)Towson University, Biological Sciences, Towson, MD, United States, (4)Towson University, Chemistry, Towson, MD, United States
 
Using Boosted Regression Trees to Predict Base Flow Nitrate Concentrations in Streams in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. (605403)
Susan Wherry, USGS Oregon Water Science Center, Portland, OR, United States, Anthony J Tesoriero, USGS, Portland, OR, United States and Silvia Terziotti, USGS North Carolina Water Science Center, Raleigh, NC, United States
 
Watershed nutrient legacy and hydrological extremes as drivers of lake water quality trends and synchrony (607698)
Ruchi Bhattacharya1, Danyka Byrnes2, Kimberly J Van Meter3 and Nandita B Basu2, (1)University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (2)University of Waterloo, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Waterloo, ON, Canada, (3)University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States
 
Parameterizing the cereal rye crop in SWAT model and evaluating its impact in watershed scale simulations (608416)
Vamsi Krishna Vema1, Jeffrey J Volenec2, Sylvie M Brouder2 and Indrajeet Chaubey3, (1)Purdue University, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, West Lafayette, United States, (2)Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (3)Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States
 
Effect of Reclaimed Wastewater Irrigation on Groundwater Phosphorus Concentrations (612202)
Joseph Kornowske, Washington State University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pullman, WA, United States and Jan Boll, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States
 
Retention and release of phosphorus in Forest-Meadow Systems of Lake Tahoe, California (616592)
Chinmay Deval1, Erin S Brooks2, Daniel G Strawn1, Thomas Heron1, Mariana Dobre1 and Alex Crump1, (1)University of Idaho, Soil and Water Systems, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)University of Idaho, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Moscow, ID, United States
 
Temporal persistence of spatial variability of base-flow water quality in an urban watershed (619332)
Claire Welty, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Dept. of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering and Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, Baltimore, MD, United States, Joel Moore, Towson University, Physics, Astronomy, & Geosciences, Towson, MD, United States, Jonathan M Duncan, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus, Ecosystem Science and Management, University Park, PA, United States, John Trusal Kemper, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, MD, United States and Peter M Groffman, CUNY Advanced Science Research Center; Brooklyn College, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, NY, United States
 
A Novel Bioreactor System for Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage Originating from Century Old Mining Activities at a Tertiary Coalfield in India (619894)
Aparna Dutta and Sudipta Sarkar, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Department of Civil Engineering, Roorkee, India
 
Legacy of Historic Logging on Mid-Atlantic and New England Streams and Riparian Corridors; Experimental Approaches to Improving Aquatic Health and Ecosystem Function (625922)
Benjamin R. Hayes, Lewisburg, PA, United States, John Field, Field Geology Services, Farmington, ME, United States, Charles Keeports, US Forest Service, Allegheny National Forest, Warren, PA, United States and Luke Bobnar, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, Ridgeway, PA, United States
 
Beavers as Ecosystem Restoration Engineers in a Legacy Mined Landscape (627876)
Rachel S Gabor1, Holly Stanley2, Chris Vogler2 and Salvi Marchese2, (1)Ohio State University Main Campus, Columbus, OH, United States, (2)Ohio State University Main Campus, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Columbus, United States
 
Generating Intuition and Hypotheses with a Simplified, Watershed-Scale Phosphorus Model (630702)
Kevin Wallington, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, Ximing Cai, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, Gregory McIsaac, University of Illinois, Urbana, United States and Maoyuan Feng, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
 
Impact of juniper encroachment and removal on sediment yield in the south-central Great Plains, USA (631648)
Yu Zhong1, Adrian Saenz2, Chris Zou1, Elaine Stebler1 and Rodney Will1, (1)Oklahoma State University, Natural Resource Ecology and Management, Stillwater, OK, United States, (2)Oklahoma State Univeristy, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Stillwater, United States
 
Drivers of legacy phosphorus release and sequestration in sediment-water systems: insights from environmental monitoring and experimental manipulation of redox front dynamics (631819)
Andrew W Schroth1, Gregory K Druschel2, Austin Wilkes3, Meagan Leduc3, John Shukle4, Martin Kurek5, Benjamin C Bostick6 and Barbara J Cade-Menun7, (1)University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, (2)Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, Earth Science, Indianapolis, IN, United States, (3)University of Vermont, Geology, Burlington, United States, (4)Indiana University Purdue University-Indianapolis, Indianapolis, United States, (5)Indiana University Perdue University-Indianapolis, Indianapolis, United States, (6)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, (7)Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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