Oregon Department of Agriculture: Agricultural Water Quality Resources

Strategic Implementation Area resources

Guidelines for Stream and Ditch Maintenance

Landowner Self-Assessment Tool

Strategic Implementation Areas (SIAs), four-page document (2018)

Details about the history of the program, strategic implementation, what's next, and what property owners can do to improve water quality. Four-page SIA handout

Strategic Implementation Areas (SIAs), two-page document (2018)

Details about strategic implementation, what's next, and what property owners can do to improve water quality. Two-page SIA handout

Landowner resources

Achieving Healthy Streamsides

Ag Water Quality Resource for Streamside Vegetation A Healthy Stream Runs Through It

Affordable Streamside Improvements

Ag Water Quality Resource for Streamside Vegetation Affordable Streamside Improvements

Animal Carcass Disposal

Ag Water Quality Resource for Specific Producers Large animal mortality brochure

Canals and Ditches and Water Quality Requirements

Ag Water Quality resource for croplands. Canals and ditches brochure

Case study: Sediment basins to control irrigation induced erosion

Willow Creek case study of catch basin use handout

Christmas Tree Farmers & Preventing Erosion

Preventing erosion and sediment delivery from Christmas tree fields. Ag Water Quality resource for specific producers. Erosion prevention strategies for Xmas tree fields

Cut-off Flood Irrigation management practice

Ag Water Quality Resource for Croplands Cut-off flood irrigation study

Developing Your Oregon Vineyard brochure

Ag Water Quality Resource for Specific Producers Developing Your Oregon Vineyard brochure

Field borders to reduce the sediment load in water leaving the field

Ag Water Quality Resource for Croplands Field borders handout

Stream and Ditch Maintenance Regulations: Oregon departments of Agriculture, State Lands

Streamside areas handout

Streamside Vegetation: Good for People, Plants and Animals

Streamside vegetation handout

Program resources

Agricultural Water Quality Management Program Monitoring Strategy (2017)

Monitoring strategy information

Agricultural Water Quality Management Program Monitoring Strategy: Overview (2017)

Monitoring strategy overview

Agricultural Water Quality Management Program Quick Guide

A landowner’s guide to Oregon’s Agricultural Water Quality Management Program. Water & Agriculture: It's Your Responsibility

Agricultural Water Quality Management Program Quick Guide (2-page document)

A nuts-and-bolts look for landowners at Oregon’s Agricultural Water Quality Management Program. Water Quality & Agriculture: 2-page document

Agricultural Water Quality Program Complaint Form

Ag Water Quality Complaint Form

Agricultural Water Quality Program, Interagency Coordination, and Strategic Approaches Presentation

Agricultural Water Quality Agency Roles Presentation

Cannabis & Water Quality Information

Cannabis and water quality handout

DEQ-ODA Memorandum of Agreement Relating to Agricultural Nonpoint Source Pollution (2018)

DEQ-ODA Memorandum of Agreement

Landscape Monitoring Project: A 15-Year Record of Riparian Change

Landscaping monitoring report

OAR 603 Division 90: Agricultural Water Quality Program

Rules relating to the Agricultural Water Quality Program OAR 603 Division 90: Agricultural Water Quality Program

OAR 603 Division 95: Agricultural Water Quality Program

Rules relating to Agricultural Water Quality Management Areas OAR 603 Division 95: Agricultural Water Quality Program

Oregon Agricultural Water Quality Compliance Program Report (2016)

2016 compliance report

Oregon Agricultural Water Quality Report (2012)

2012 ag water quality report

Oregon Revised Statute 568: Water Quality Management

Statutes relating to Agricultural Water Quality Management ORS 568: Water Quality Management

Pesticide Management Plan for Water Quality Protection

The plan outlines the roles, policies and legal authorities of each government agency with the responsibilities for protecting Oregon's water resources from pesticides and the process by which these activities will be coordinated. Water quality pesticide management plan

Total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) information from DEQ

TMDL information

Water Quality Focus Areas (four-page document)

Focus Area history and implementation information

Water Quality Focus Areas (two-page document)

Focus Area process information

More info from ODA

Pesticides and water quality

Contact

John Byers

Program Manager

jbyers@oda.state.or.us

Phone: 503-986-4718

Ryan Beyer

Compliance Specialist

rbeyer@oda.state.or.us

Phone: 503-986-4696

Theresa DeBardelaben

Water Quality Specialist: North & Central Oregon Region

tdebardelaben@oda.state.or.us

Phone: 503-931-1754

Tom Demianew

Water Quality Specialist: Umatilla & Wallowa Region

tdemianew@oda.state.or.us

Phone: 541-969-6282

Kevin Fenn

Water Quality Program Compliance Leader

kfenn@oda.state.or.us

Phone: 503-986-6486

Ellen Hammond

Monitoring and Implementation Lead

ehammond@oda.state.or.us

Phone: 541-617-0017

Fax: 541-389-1329

Cheryl Hummon

Riparian Specialist

chummon@oda.state.or.us

Phone: 503-986-4791

Renita McNaughtan

Administrative Specialist

rmcnaughtan@oda.state.or.us

Phone: 503-986-4779

Jo Morgan

Water Quality Specialist: Mid-Coast & South Willamette Region

jmorgan@oda.state.or.us

Phone: 503-986-4712

Beth Pietrzak

Water Quality Specialist: Southwest Oregon Region

epietrzak@oda.state.or.us

Phone: 541-414-8797

Mike Powers

Water Quality Lead Policy Specialist

mpowers@oda.state.or.us

Phone: 503-986-4761

Brenda Sanchez

Natural Resource Policy Specialist; Water Quality Specialist: North Coast & North Willamette Region

bsanchez@oda.state.or.us

Phone: 503-986-5141

Maria Snodgress

Water Quality Specialist: Central & Southeast Oregon Region

msnodgress@oda.state.or.us

Phone: 541-699-2263

Vacant

Water Quality Program Analyst

Phone: 503-986-4775

Agricultural Water Quality

Agricultural Water Quality Resources