1.   As it is, they said, nearly three-fourths of applications to help farmers reduce agricultural runoffs are denied for lack of financing.

2.   Agricultural runoff from the six states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed is not a new problem, but the growth of agribusiness has accelerated the flow of waste.

3.   But critics of the Combest approach argue for continuing the exclusion, contending large farms ought to bear the cost of reducing agricultural runoffs.

4.   From the air, it is obvious that cattails flourish at the points where agricultural runoff enters the Everglades at massive pump stations.

5.   He said he would appoint a commission to develop recommendations this fall for better regulation of agricultural runoff.

6.   He said the plan had several weaknesses, including a lack of any attention to the problem of pollution from dispersed sources like agricultural runoff and faulty septic systems.

7.   Like many rivers, the South Platte is rich in nitrates and ammonium, from agricultural runoff and the discharges from sewage treatment plants.

8.   Nitrogen-based air pollution destroys oxygen in water, placing another burden on estuaries like Long Island Sound and Chesapeake Bay that are already threatened by agricultural runoff.

9.   Non-point sources include lawn herbicides and oil residues from city streets, but by far the heaviest non-point contributor to water pollution is agricultural runoff.

10.   Reducing agricultural runoff would increase the salt in the sea to the point where it could no longer sustain life.