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Sustainable Residential Landscapes

Web Pages:

• Turf Management for a Healthier Lawn
• Preventing Water Quality Pollution for Homeowners
• Resources for Canada Goose Management
• Resources for Pond Management

Slide Sets:

• Environmentally-friendly Lawn Care
  Scripted, PDF, 4 MB
• Soils, Compaction, Residential Development, and Stormwater Management
  Scripted, PDF, 3 MB
• New Jersey’s 2011 Law Regulating Turfgrass Fertilizer Applications
  Scripted, PDF, 1 MB
• An Introduction to Low Impact Development
  Scripted, PDF, 9 MB
• An Introduction to Fecal Contamination of Water
  Scripted, PDF, 3 MB

Factsheets:

• Soils and Stormwater Management: Soil Quality, Compaction, and Residential Development
  2011, 6 pages, PDF, 2 MB
• Pond and Lake Management Part VI: Using Barley Straw to Control Algae
  2011, 3 pages, PDF, 1 MB
• What's Polluting our Rivers, Lakes, and Estuaries I: Phosphorus
  2011, 4 pages, PDF, 1 MB

Journal Publications:

• Lawn Care Education Program to Address Water Conservation and Water Pollution Prevention in New Jersey
  2011.  Mangiafico, S.S., C.C. Obropta, E. Rossi-Griffin.
  Journal of the National Association of County Agricultural Agents 4 (2). 
• Demographic Factors Influence Environmental Values: A Lawn-Care Survey of Homeowners in New Jersey
  2012. Mangiafico, S.S., C.C. Obropta, and E. Rossi-Griffin. 
  Journal of Extension 50:1, Article 1RIB6.

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Local Water Quality for Salem and Cumberland Counties

Web pages:

• Water Quality of Streams and Lakes in Salem and Cumberland Counties
• Priority watersheds: upper Salem and upper Cohansey Rivers
• Multiple Benefits of Agriculture in a Watershed (Salem County)

Slide Sets:

• Salem River Water Quality
  Scripted, PDF, 2 MB
• Water Quality in the Upper Cohansey Watershed
  Scripted, PDF, 2 MB
• Recommended Implementation Projects from Upper Cohansey Restoration Plan
  Scripted, PDF, 3 MB

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Water Resources Management for Plant Production

Web pages:

• Sustainable Nursery Production - New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station
• Preventing Water Quality Pollution for Agriculture

Slide Sets:

• Reducing Pesticides in Agricultural Runoff
  Scripted, PDF, 4 MB
• Sustainable Agricultural Management Practices for Nurseries
  Scripted, PDF, 4 MB

Factsheets:

• Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting For Plant Irrigation I: Design Concepts and Water Quantity
  2011, 5 pages, PDF, 4 MB
• Rooftop Rainwater Harvesting for Plant Irrigation II: Water Quality and Horticultural Considerations
  2011, 4 pages, PDF, 1 MB

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