Agricultural Water Quality Resources

Strategic Implementation Area resources

• Landowner Self-Assessment Tool
  Self-assessment handout
• Implementation Areas 2014-19 Progress Report
  Progress report
• Strategic Implementation Areas: Ensuring Compliance with Agricultural Water Quality Regulations
  SIA outreach handout

Landowner resources

• Achieving Healthy Streamsides
  Ag Water Quality Resource for Streamside Vegetation
• Affordable Streamside Improvements
  Ag Water Quality Resource for Streamside Vegetation
• Canals and Ditches and Water Quality Requirements
  Ag Water Quality resource for croplands.
• Case study: Sediment basins to control irrigation induced erosion
  Willow Creek case study of catch basin use handout
• Christmas Tree Farmers & Preventing Erosion
  Preventing erosion and sediment delivery from Christmas tree fields. Ag Water Quality resource for specific producers.
• Cut-off Flood Irrigation management practice
  Ag Water Quality Resource for Croplands
• Developing Your Oregon Vineyard brochure
  Ag Water Quality Resource for Specific Producers
• Field borders to reduce the sediment load in water leaving the field
  Ag Water Quality Resource for Croplands
• Grassed waterway background and installation information
  
• Horse Health and Water Quality
  Management tips for healthy horses and clean water
• Landowner's Guide to Managing Livestock Mortality
  Information about how to safely dispose of large animal carcasses.
• Polyacrylamide use and erosion prevention
  
• Protecting your soils after a fire: Seeding for erosion control
  
• Riparian Grazing: Brogan Canyon Case Study
  Grazing in Willow Creek case study handout
• Stream and Ditch Maintenance Regulations: Oregon departments of Agriculture, State Lands
  
• Streamside Vegetation: Good for People, Plants and Animals
  

Program resources

• Agricultural Water Quality Management Program Monitoring Strategy (2017)
  
• Agricultural Water Quality Management Program Monitoring Strategy: Overview (2017)
  
• Agricultural Water Quality Management Program Quick Guide (2-page document)
  A nuts-and-bolts look for landowners at Oregon's Agricultural Water Quality Management Program.
• Agricultural Water Quality Program Complaint Form
  
• Agricultural Water Quality Program, Interagency Coordination, and Strategic Approaches Presentation
  
• Cannabis & Water Quality Information
  
• DEQ-ODA Memorandum of Agreement Relating to Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution (2018)
  
• Landscape Monitoring Project: A 15-Year Record of Riparian Change
  
• Memorandum of Agreement: ODA-DEQ Collaboration on Achieving Water Quality Goals Relating to Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution
  
• OAR 603 Division 90: Agricultural Water Quality Program
  Rules relating to the Agricultural Water Quality Program
• OAR 603 Division 95: Agricultural Water Quality Program
  Rules relating to Agricultural Water Quality Management Areas
• Oregon Agricultural Water Quality Compliance Program Report
  
• Oregon Revised Statute 568: Water Quality Management
  
• Pesticide Management Plan for Water Quality Protection
  The plan outlines the roles, policies and legal authorities of each government agency with the responsibilities for protecting Oregon's water resources from pesticides and the process by which these activities will be coordinated.
• Report to Board of Agriculture: ODA/DEQ Water Quality Memorandum of Agreement on Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution
  MOA report to Board of Agriculture
• Total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) information from DEQ
  
• Water & Agriculture: It's Your Responsibility
  A landowner's guide to Oregon's Agricultural Water Quality Program
• Water Quality Focus Areas (four-page document)
  Focus Area history and implementation information
• Water Quality Focus Areas (two-page document)
  Focus Area process information

• Pesticides and water quality
  
• Water Quality Specialist Map
• Oregon Nitrate Reduction Plan