Orchard Water Quality Management

Our office produced a great resource to extend good management practices for orchard water quality management. Topics include:

• Irrigation system design, maintenance, schedules

• Irrigating to meet plant needs

• Using tools to measure soil moisture and evapotranspiration (ET)

• Ways to limit contamination of runoff using integrated pest               management (IPM), smart chemical use and proper storage

• Suggestions on how to improve soil infiltration

• Reducing water and sediment runoff

• And more

An electronic version of this resource can be found by clicking here. Hard copies are also available. Please contact our office if you would like a hard copy version.