State of Oregon: Agricultural Water Quality - Agricultural Water Quality Resources

Strategic Implementation Area resources

Landowner Self-Assessment Tool

Self-assessment handout

Strategic 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 A Healthy Stream Runs Through It

Affordable Streamside Improvements

Ag Water Quality Resource for Streamside Vegetation Affordable Streamside Improvements

Canals and Ditches and Water Quality Requirements

Ag Water Quality resource for croplands. Canals and ditches brochure

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. Erosion prevention strategies for Xmas tree fields

Cut-off Flood Irrigation management practice

Ag Water Quality Resource for Croplands Cut-off flood irrigation study

Developing Your Oregon Vineyard brochure

Ag Water Quality Resource for Specific Producers Developing Your Oregon Vineyard brochure

Field borders to reduce the sediment load in water leaving the field

Ag Water Quality Resource for Croplands Field borders handout

Grassed waterway background and installation information

Grassed waterways and vegetated filters handout

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. Livestock mortality guide

Stream and Ditch Maintenance Regulations: Oregon departments of Agriculture, State Lands

Streamside areas handout

Streamside Vegetation: Good for People, Plants and Animals

Streamside vegetation handout

Program resources

2024 LUBGWMA Nitrate Reduction Plan

Outlines the state’s key strategies to reduce groundwater nitrate concentrations to less than seven mg/L in the Lower Umatilla Basin Groundwater Management Area (LUBGWMA) and protect public health in the immediate term. LUBGWMA Nitrate Reduction Plan

Agricultural Water Quality Management Program Monitoring Strategy (2017)

Monitoring strategy information

Agricultural Water Quality Management Program Monitoring Strategy: Overview (2017)

Monitoring strategy overview

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. Water Quality & Agriculture: 2-page document

Agricultural Water Quality Program Complaint Form

Ag Water Quality Complaint Form

Agricultural Water Quality Program, Interagency Coordination, and Strategic Approaches Presentation

Agricultural Water Quality Agency Roles Presentation

Cannabis & Water Quality Information

Cannabis and water quality handout

DEQ-ODA Memorandum of Agreement Relating to Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution (2018)

DEQ-ODA Memorandum of Agreement

Landscape Monitoring Project: A 15-Year Record of Riparian Change

Landscaping monitoring report

Memorandum of Agreement: ODA-DEQ Collaboration on Achieving Water Quality Goals Relating to Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution

ODA-DEQ Memorandum of Agreement

OAR 603 Division 90: Agricultural Water Quality Program

Rules relating to the Agricultural Water Quality Program OAR 603 Division 90: Agricultural Water Quality Program

OAR 603 Division 95: Agricultural Water Quality Program

Rules relating to Agricultural Water Quality Management Areas OAR 603 Division 95: Agricultural Water Quality Program

Oregon Agricultural Water Quality Compliance Program Report

2022 compliance report

Oregon Revised Statute 568: Water Quality Management

Statutes relating to Agricultural Water Quality Management ORS 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. Water quality pesticide management plan