Preliminary estimates for the entire Court Creek

DO NOT USE THE NUMBERS!!! - THE ESTIMATES ARE PROVIDED FOR COMPARISON WITH OTHER RESEARCH EFFORTS AND ARE STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT

Resolution of original data = 30m
Resolution of computation = 20m

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INPUTS
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Terrain:

elevation: 556-854ft = 170-260m

slope[deg]: min=0, max=19 average=1.8 

Current Land use 

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|                         RASTER MAP CATEGORY REPORT                          |
|LOCATION: courtcreek                                 Tue Nov 23 13:51:08 1999|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|          north: 4547233.39648173    east: 744770                            |
|REGION    south: 4530319.12043302    west: 722010                            |
|          res:         19.9932341    res:      20                            |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MASK:MASK in helena                                                          |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MAP: knox.lc*1 (cover.cc20 in helena)                                        |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                   Category Information                    |          |   %  |
| #|description                                             |     acres| cover|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 1|High density urban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|   132.598|  0.21|
| 3|Medium density urban . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|    50.490|  0.08|
| 4|Low density urban. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|   660.522|  1.06|
| 8|Row crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|24,180.535| 38.77|
| 9|Small grains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  4575.238|  7.33|
|11|Urban grass/parks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  1647.501|  2.64|
|12|Rural grassland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|12,932.495| 20.73|
|13|Decidious forest closed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|14,311.735| 22.94|
|14|Decidious forest open. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  2043.517|  3.28|
|15|Coniferous forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|    52.170|  0.08|
|16|Open water . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|   624.754|  1.00|
|18|Shallow Marsh/Wet meadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|    47.131|  0.08|
|19|Deep marsh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|     9.485|  0.02|
|20|Forested wetland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|   232.689|  0.37|
|22|Shallow water wetlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|   874.833|  1.40|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|TOTAL                                                      |62,375.694|100.00|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Note: wetlands cover only 1.87% area 

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Modified USLE

R=150
K=0.3
C=...
Row crop 0.5, Small grains = 0.3, grass = 0.003, 
forest closed = 0.0001, forest open=0.001

LS min=0 max=50   average=1.2

Average soil loss = 4.7 ton/acre year



Area [%] with soil loss <=1t/ay (stable) is 63%; 
Area [%] with soil loss > 10t/ay is 16%; produces 87% soil loss [ton/year]


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|                         RASTER MAP CATEGORY REPORT                          |
|LOCATION: courtcreek                                 Tue Nov 23 14:37:09 1999|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|          north: 4547233.39648173    east: 744770                            |
|REGION    south: 4530319.12043302    west: 722010                            |
|          res:         19.9932341    res:      20                            |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MASK:MASK in helena                                                          |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MAP: 150*0.3*cfac.cc20*ls06.cc20n (husle.cc20n in helena)                    |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                   Category Information                    |          |   %  |
|      #|description                                        |     acres| cover|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|    0-1|stable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |39,403.366| 63.17|
|    1-3|low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  5448.787|  8.74|
|    3-6|medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  4131.102|  6.62|
|   6-10|high . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  3148.076|  5.05|
|  10-50|severe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  8132.077| 13.04|
| 50-200|extreme (gullies). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  2112.287|  3.39|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|TOTAL                                                      |62,375.694|100.00|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

EVALUATION OF CONSERVATION STRATEGIES

Alternative 1: reductions of C-factor on all agricultural fields from 0.5 to 0.4
(row crops) and 0.3 to 0.2 (small grains) (equivalent to P=0.8 and P=0.7 resp)

Composition of land use  : remains the same

Erosion risk
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|                         RASTER MAP CATEGORY REPORT                          |
|LOCATION: courtcreek                                 Wed Apr  5 11:39:08 2000|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|          north: 4547233.39648173    east: 744770                            |
|REGION    south: 4530319.12043302    west: 722010                            |
|          res:         19.9932341    res:      20                            |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MASK:MASK in helena                                                          |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MAP: 150*0.3*cfac.cc20a1*ls06.cc20n (husle.cc20a1 in helena)                 |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                   Category Information                    |          |   %  |
|      #|description                                        |     acres| cover|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|    0-1|stable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |40,225.831| 64.49|
|    1-3|low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  6028.090|  9.66|
|    3-6|medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  4277.731|  6.86|
|   6-10|high . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  3232.457|  5.18|
|  10-50|severe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  7310.500| 11.72|
|50-2000|extreme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  1301.085|  2.09|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|TOTAL                                                      |62,375.694|100.00|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Alternative 2 
cfac.cca2=if(husle.cc20o>10 && cfac.cc20o>0.003,0.003,cfac.cc20o)
all areas with erosion risk higher than 10 and C>0.003 (row crops 
or grains) are turned to grass 

Composition of land use 
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|                         RASTER MAP CATEGORY REPORT                          |
|LOCATION: courtcreek                                 Thu Apr  6 10:14:23 2000|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|          north: 4547233.39648173    east: 744770                            |
|REGION    south: 4530319.12043302    west: 722010                            |
|          res:         19.9932341    res:      20                            |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MASK:MASK in helena                                                          |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MAP: if(cover.cc20<=7||cover.cc20>=16,0.,0.)+if(cover.cc20==8,0.5,0.)+if... (|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                   Category Information                    |          |   %  |
|               #|description                               |     acres| cover|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|      0-0.000001|other  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  2632.503|  4.22|
|0.000001-0.00015|dense forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|14,363.905| 23.03|
|   0.0002-0.0015|open forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  2043.517|  3.28|
|    0.002-0.0035|grass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|24,780.785| 39.73|
|       0.02-0.35|small grains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  1731.881|  2.78|
|         0.4-0.5|row crops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|16,823.102| 26.97|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|TOTAL                                                      |62,375.694|100.00|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Erosion risk
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                         RASTER MAP CATEGORY REPORT                          |
|LOCATION: courtcreek                                 Wed Apr  5 13:53:04 2000|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|          north: 4547233.39648173    east: 744770                            |
|REGION    south: 4530319.12043302    west: 722010                            |
|          res:         19.9932341    res:      20                            |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MASK:MASK in helena                                                          |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MAP: 150*0.3*cfac.cca2*ls06.cc20n (husle.cc20a2 in helena)                   |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                   Category Information                    |          |   %  |
|    #|description                                          |     acres| cover|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|  0-1|stable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |49,347.752| 79.11|
|  1-3|low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  5736.314|  9.20|
|  3-6|medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  4144.244|  6.64|
| 6-10|high . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  3147.285|  5.05|
|10-50|severe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |     0.099|  0.00|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|TOTAL                                                      |62,375.694|100.00|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Alternative 3

stream buffers with grass or forest 300m wide

Composition of land use
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                         RASTER MAP CATEGORY REPORT                          |
|LOCATION: courtcreek                                 Thu Apr  6 10:15:15 2000|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|          north: 4547233.39648173    east: 744770                            |
|REGION    south: 4530319.12043302    west: 722010                            |
|          res:         19.9932341    res:      20                            |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MASK:MASK in helena                                                          |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MAP: if((stream.buf300nn==1&&cfac.cc20o>0.003),0.003,cfac.cc20o) (cfac.cca3 i|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                   Category Information                    |          |   %  |
|               #|description                               |     acres| cover|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|      0-0.000001|other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  2632.503|  4.22|
|0.000001-0.00015|dense forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|14,363.905| 23.03|
|   0.0002-0.0015|open forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  2043.517|  3.28|
|    0.002-0.0035|grass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|19,360.751| 31.04|
|       0.02-0.35|small grains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  3197.380|  5.13|
|         0.4-0.5|row crops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|20,777.637| 33.31|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|TOTAL                                                      |62,375.694|100.00|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Erosion risk
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                         RASTER MAP CATEGORY REPORT                          |
|LOCATION: courtcreek                                 Wed Apr  5 14:17:23 2000|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|          north: 4547233.39648173    east: 744770                            |
|REGION    south: 4530319.12043302    west: 722010                            |
|          res:         19.9932341    res:      20                            |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MASK:MASK in helena                                                          |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MAP: 150*0.3*cfac.cca3*ls06.cc20n (husle.cc20a3 in helena)                   |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                   Category Information                    |          |   %  |
|      #|description                                        |     acres| cover|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|    0-1|stable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |43,404.043| 69.58|
|    1-3|low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  5221.038|  8.37|
|    3-6|medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  3688.251|  5.91|
|   6-10|high . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  2650.190|  4.25|
|  10-50|severe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  6115.336|  9.80|
|50-2000|extreme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  1296.836|  2.08|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|TOTAL                                                      |62,375.694|100.00|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Alternative 3a

grassed stream buffers 420m wide

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|                         RASTER MAP CATEGORY REPORT                          |
|LOCATION: courtcreek                                 Wed Apr  5 15:07:42 2000|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|          north: 4547233.39648173    east: 744770                            |
|REGION    south: 4530319.12043302    west: 722010                            |
|          res:         19.9932341    res:      20                            |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MASK:MASK in helena                                                          |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MAP: 150*0.3*cfac.cca3a*ls06.cc20n (husle.cc20a3a in helena)                 |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                   Category Information                    |          |   %  |
|      #|description                                        |     acres| cover|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|    0-1|stable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |45,630.847| 73.15|
|    1-3|low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  4892.308|  7.84|
|    3-6|medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  3299.250|  5.29|
|   6-10|high . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  2306.442|  3.70|
|  10-50|severe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  5204.339|  8.34|
|50-2000|extreme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  1042.508|  1.67|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|TOTAL                                                      |62,375.694|100.00|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Alternative 4

grassed stream buffers + high erosion areas beyond buffers
Composition of land use
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                         RASTER MAP CATEGORY REPORT                          |
|LOCATION: courtcreek                                 Thu Apr  6 10:16:40 2000|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|          north: 4547233.39648173    east: 744770                            |
|REGION    south: 4530319.12043302    west: 722010                            |
|          res:         19.9932341    res:      20                            |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MASK:MASK in helena                                                          |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MAP: if((stream.buf300nn==1||husle.cc20o>10)&&cfac.cc20o>0.003,0.003,cfa... (|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                   Category Information                    |          |   %  |
|               #|description                               |     acres| cover|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|      0-0.000001|other. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  2632.503|  4.22|
|0.000001-0.00015|dense forest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|14,363.905| 23.03|
|   0.0002-0.0015|open forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  2043.517|  3.28|
|    0.002-0.0035|grass. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|26,772.824| 42.92|
|       0.02-0.35|small grains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  1408.389|  2.26|
|         0.4-0.5|row crops. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|15,154.555| 24.30|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|TOTAL                                                      |62,375.694|100.00|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

Erosion risk
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                         RASTER MAP CATEGORY REPORT                          |
|LOCATION: courtcreek                                 Wed Apr  5 15:08:00 2000|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|          north: 4547233.39648173    east: 744770                            |
|REGION    south: 4530319.12043302    west: 722010                            |
|          res:         19.9932341    res:      20                            |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MASK:MASK in helena                                                          |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MAP: 150*0.3*cfac.cca4*ls06.cc20n (husle.cc20a4 in helena)                   |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                   Category Information                    |          |   %  |
|    #|description                                          |     acres| cover|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|  0-1|stable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |50,645.082| 81.19|
|  1-3|low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  5384.859|  8.63|
|  3-6|medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  3695.464|  5.92|
| 6-10|high . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  2650.190|  4.25|
|10-50|severe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |     0.099|  0.00|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|TOTAL                                                      |62,375.694|100.00|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+


==============================================================================

USPED net erosion/deposition for transport capacity limiting case of sediment
transport

area with net erosion/deposition less than 1t/ay (stable) is 63%
area with net erosion > 1t/ay is 25%
area with net deposition > 1t/ay is 12%

area with high net erosion > 10t/ay is only 7%

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|                         RASTER MAP CATEGORY REPORT                          |
|LOCATION: courtcreek                                 Tue Jan  4 14:04:52 2000|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|          north: 4547233.39648173    east: 744770                            |
|REGION    south: 4530319.12043302    west: 722010                            |
|          res:         19.9932341    res:      20                            |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MASK:MASK in helena                                                          |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MAP: qs16xcc20.dx+qs16ycc20.dy (usped.cc20 in helena)                        |
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|                   Category Information                    |          |   %  |
|         #|description                                     |     acres| cover|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|  -200--50|extreme. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  1453.543|  2.33|
|   -50--10|severe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  3130.884|  5.02|
|    -10--6|high . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  1941.845|  3.11|
|     -6--3|medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  3322.865|  5.33|
|     -3--1|low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  5988.073|  9.60|
|      -1-1|stable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|39,076.316| 62.65|
|       1-3|low. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  2072.369|  3.32|
|       3-6|medium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  1307.606|  2.10|
|      6-10|high . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|   883.331|  1.42|
|    10-200|severe/extreme . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .|  3198.862|  5.13|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|TOTAL                                                      |62,375.694|100.00|
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+