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This project will evaluate the performance of management strategies for reducing low dissolved oxygen events associated with managed estuarine wetlands operations in Suisun Marsh, and transfer successful new management practices to the broader managed wetlands community. Reducing low dissolved oxygen (DO) events may result in less favorable conditions for methylmercury (MeHg), which can bioaccumulate in the food web. Reducing low dissolved oxygen events could help decrease MeHg concentrations within the ponds and consequent loading to the surrounding sloughs.
The project should improve surface water quality, the aquatic ecosystem, and wildlife and public health by developing and testing farm-based Best Management Practices (BMPs) that reduce low DO and associated MeHg production. The collaborative nature of this demonstration project, involving private landowners and several public agencies, will foster integrative analysis of and solutions to water quality impairment and other management problems in Suisun Marsh.
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Funding for this project has been provided in full or in part through an agreement with the State Water Resources Control Board. |
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