Management - Nutrients

Management practices to reduce the load of nutrients entering a wetland:

• Adequate buffer zones
• Alternative uses of manure/manure transport (i.e. finding an alternative use for the excess manure or transporting the manure out of the catchment)
• Farm management systems (nutrients)
• Fire management plans
• Manure additives to bind phosphorus into less soluble forms
• Nutrient application methods (e.g. subsurface application), rates (e.g. appropriate for plant growth stage and current soil levels) and timing (e.g. not during heavy rain/rainy season)
• Point source licensing and enforcement
• Presence of conservation buffers
• Revegetation (wetland/fringing zone/catchment)
• Septic denitrification to reduce the amount of nitrogen that leaves the septic system
• Stock management (e.g. controlled grazing regimes, fencing out of wetlands)
• Stormwater and drainage management (e.g. tail-water detention, sediment traps, grassed swales)
• Management practices that reduce erosion/soil loss as phosphorus binds to sediments (see aquatic sediment stressor)

Management practice indicators Management practice indicator:% of urban area under an active urban stormwater management plan Management practice indicator:% of farms using current best management practices (nutrient)