Freshwater Aquatic Nuisance Species Impacts and Management Costs and Benefits at Federal Water Resources Projects

Abstract

A small fraction of the species that inhabit the nation's fresh waters become aquatic nuisance species (ANS) when they significantly degrade services provided by water resources. Government agencies, utilities, and other water resource managers incur substantial costs controlling ANS and repairing damage to restore service performance to desired levels. National costs of and benefits from ANS management appear to be increasing, but neither is particularly well documented (e.g., Lovell and Stone (2005)). Meanwhile, competition for federal funding continues to grow and to require ever stronger evidence of net benefit from management measures in order to justify program budgets in the annual ANS management cycle (Figure 1).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA456183

Entities

People

  • Richard A. Cole

Organizations

  • United States Army Corps of Engineers

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Environmental Protection
  • Eutrophication
  • Fish
  • Fisheries
  • Habitats
  • Wildlife

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Environmental Engineering
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.