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Key Objective: 59. Tile-Drainage Wetlands

Construct tile-drainage wetlands built at 5% wetland-to-watershed to reduce nitrate-N into Embarras River by 50%.

Associated Metric

No metric specified for this objective

Explanation

"Tile-drainage wetlands built at a 5 percent wetland-to-watershed ratio could remove nearly 50 percent of the nitrate-N that otherwise would enter the Embarras River (Kovacic 2007)."