Jordan Lake Nutrient Response Model
Several local governments, working together with the State of North Carolina, Triangle J Council of Governments, Piedmont Triad Council of Governments, environmental consultants, and watershed stakeholders, developed a water quality model for Jordan Lake which was completed in April 2002.
The Jordan Lake Nutrient Response Model helps us predict what lake water quality will be like under different levels of nutrient loads to the lake. The model can be used as a basis for developing plans for how best to protect Jordan Lake from the adverse effects of nutrient enrichment.
Jordan Lake Nurient Response Model includes three main modeling components:
- a hydrodynamic model
- a point source nutrient delivery model, and,
- a lake water quality (nutrient) response model.
The Jordan Lake Nutrient Response Model shows that increases in point and nonpoint source nutrient loads will further degrade lake water quality. If not managed properly, the population and economic growth that are projected to occur in the watershed over the coming decades will further threaten the ability of the lake to support its designated uses as a major regional drinking water supply, recreational resource, and aquatic habitat.
As a result of these findings, Triangle J launched the Jordan Lake Stakeholder Project to provide a framework for addressing these concerns and to assist the NC Division of Water Quality and the NC Environmental Management Commission in developing the Jordan Lake TMDL, nutrient targets and nutrient management strategy for Jordan Lake and the Jordan Lake Watershed.
This program is currently inactive.
