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Directors
Loren Oki
Department of Plant Sciences
UC Davis
David Fujino
California Center for Urban Horticulture
UC Davis
UCNFA Partners
Directors
Loren Oki
Department of Plant Sciences
UC Davis
David Fujino
California Center for Urban Horticulture
UC Davis
UCNFA Partners
Erosion and Pesticide Runoff Management in Nurseries
Directions
Cooperative Extension Ventura County
669 County Square Drive, #100
Ventura, CA 93003-5401
(805) 645-1451
Information and Registration
Erosion and Pesticide Runoff Management in Nurseries
Cooperative Extension Ventura County
669 County Square Drive, #100
Ventura, CA 93003-5401
September 13, 2011
7:30 am – 12:00 pm
Moderator: Julie Newman, UC Cooperative Extension, Ventura County
Continuing Education Units applied for: CCA (4), DPR (2.5), Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board Ag Waiver Program (4), Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board Ag Waiver Program (4)
Agenda:
| Time | Speaker | Title | Topics |
| 7:30-8:00am | Registration | ||
| 8:00-8:15am | Julie Newman, UCCE Ventura | Welcome, Introduction | Pesticides, Sediment, and Water Quality Issues/Regulations |
| 8:15-8:50am | Valerie Mellano, UCCE San Diego | Protecting Roads, Hillsides, and Bare Soil from Wind and Soil Erosion | San Diego Resources, Terracing, Fiber Materials, Mulch, Plant Covers, Road Erosion Management, Windbreaks |
| 8:50-9:15am | Julie Newman | Reducing Pesticide Loads | How Pesticides Move; BMPs to Reduce Pesticide Loads |
| 9:15-9:35am | Karen Robb, Target Specialty Products | Know Your Pathogen to Reduce Unnecessary or Ineffective Pesticide Applications: Test Kit Demonstration | Demonstration of Test Kits for Pathogen Diagnosis |
| 9:35-9:50am | Karen Robb | Break: Check out Test Kits Demo | Hands-on: Growers can try test kits |
| 9:50-10:25am | Darren Haver, South Coast Research & Extension Center, UCCE Orange County | Use of Ponds/Basins for Capturing Sediment and Runoff
Treating Runoff: Using Cannas as a Biofilter in a Commercial Nursery |
Design, Construction, and Maintenance of Sediment, Detention, and Retention Basins UC Research Project Demonstrating Effectiveness of a Nursery Bioswale
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| 10:25-10:45am | Don Merhaut & Lea Corkidi, UC Riverside | Treating Runoff: Using California Native Plants as Biofilters | UC Research Project on the Use of Nursery Biofilters |
| 10:45-11:20am | Loren Oki, UC Davis | Treating Runoff: Constructed Wetlands and Slow Sand Filtration | Basics and Research Projects |
| 11:25am-12:00pm | Don Merhaut | Treating Runoff: Chemical Control of Pathogens in Recycling Systems | Chemical Control of Pathogens as a Means of Reducing Fungicide Use |
Funding for this meeting has been provided in part through an agreement with the State Water Resources Control Board and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Federal Nonpoint Source Pollution Control Program (Clean Water Act Section 319).
Registration is free for VCAILG members. Online form requires VCAILG number.
Pre-registration $15 per person
Walk-in registration on the day of the program $25 per person
Online Registration Form (credit cards only)
Mail/Fax Registration Form (checks and credit cards)
Thanks to these additional sponsors:
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Assistance Available
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Please contact the UCNFA office at 530-752-8419 (phone/fax) (email:lldodge@ucdavis.edu) if you have special needs or require assistance |
