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Identifying Cost-effective Locations for Manure Management Incentives

EnviroAtlas contains ecological, economic and demographic datasets for two spatial extents—the contiguous U.S. and featured communities. This use case explores one solution for minimizing the negative impacts of excess manure application in the Chesapeake Bay watershed using EnviroAtlas national data.

Identifying Cost-effective Locations for Manure Management Incentives (pdf) (5.09 MB, April 2017)
The Chesapeake Bay faces a number of problems, chief among them, the presence of excess nutrients.