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Drinking Water From Forests and Grasslands
A synthesis of the Scientific Literature
George E. Dissmeyer, Editor
This document was written to help managers
comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act by providing a review and
synthesis of the current scientific literature about the effects
of managing these lands on public drinking water sources. Managers
of public water supplies and community groups concerned with drinking
water may also find this document useful. The report’s focus is
restricted to potential contamination of source water associated
with conventional land uses on public lands. Land uses and contamination
sources covered include hydromodifications, urbanization, recreation,
roads and other corridors, timber management, forest succession,
fire management, pesticides, grazing, wildlife, water birds, fish
and aquatic organisms, hardrock and coal mining, and oil and gas
development.
Southern Research Station General Technical Report SRS-39 may be
downloaded from http://www.srs.fs.fed.us/pubs/gtr/gtr_srs039.
To obtain a hard copy of the 250 page report send an e-mail specifying
the exact document requested and your address to
pubrequest@srs.fs.fed.usda.gov.
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