Erosion and related land use conditions on the Spartanburg municipal reservoir watershed, South Carolina.

Description:

Soil erosion in the southern Piedmont has impoverished farm lands, filled stream channels, and reduced the capacity of expensive reservoirs since the period of agricultural occupation began, a little more than 150 years ago. Spartanburg Municipal Reservoir had silted 17.15 percent of its capacity by 1934, 8 years after its construction. To furnish definite information regarding the physical condition of land in this watershed as a physical basis for reorganizing land use on farms and to aid in interpreting the sedimentation survey, a soil conservation survey was made in 1937.

subjects: Soil conservation,  Land use,  Soil conservation surveys,  Soil erosion,  Ecological surveys,  Land use surveys