Below are the works cited in the nitrates one-pager.
Conservation Practices
www.epa.illinois.gov/Assets/iepa/water-quality/watershed-management/nlrs/nlrs-final-revised-083115.pdf
BBS symptoms can start at just 5 ppm
cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.highlight/abstract/5379/report/F
Nitrates in IL Community Water Systems
water.epa.state.il.us/dww/index.jsp
Birth Defects and nitrates
Brender, J. D., Olive, J. M., Felkner, M., Suarez, L., Marckwardt, W., &
Hendricks, K. A. (2004). Dietary nitrates and nitrites, nitrosatable drugs,
and neural tube defects. Epidemiology: 15(3), 330-336.
Brender, J. D., Weyer, P. J., Romitti, P. A., Mohanty, B. P., Binayak, P. M.,
Mayura, U. S., . . . the National Birth Defects Prevention Study. (2013).
Prenatal nitrate intake from drinking water and selected birth defects in
offspring of participants in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study.
Environmental Health Perspectives: 121(9), 1083-1089.
Cancer related and nitrates
Jones, R. R., Weyer, P. J., DellaValle, C.T., Inoue-Choi, M., Anderson, K. E., Cantor, K. P., . . . Ward, M. H. (2016). Nitrate from drinking water and diet and bladder cancer among postmenopausal women in Iowa. Environmental Health Perspectives: 124(11), 1751-1758.
Ward, M. H., Kilfoy B. A., Weyer, P. J., Anderson, K. E., Folsom, A. R., &
Cerhan, J.R. (2010). Nitrate intake and the risk of thyroid cancer and
thyroid disease. Epidemiology: 21 (3), 389-395.
Inoue-Choi, M., Jones, R. R., Anderson, K. E., Cantor, K. P., Cerhan, J. R., Krasner, S., . . . Ward, M. H. (2016). Nitrate and nitrite ingestion and risk of ovarian cancer among postmenopausal women in Iowa. International Jouranl of Cancer: 137(1), 173-182.
Unfunded conservation programs
www.dnr.illinois.gov/conservation/CREP/Pages/CREPAnnualReports.aspx
Illinois Soil and Water Conservation Districts
www.aiswcd.org/