Prioritization of Susceptible Watershed to Sediment Yield and Evaluation of Best Management Practice: A Case Study of Awata River, Southern Ethiopia

Table 16

Summary of sediment reduction with the simulation of terracing.

Hot spot subbasin	Average annual sediment loading (t/ha/year)		Reduction (%)
	Baseline	After terracing
1	19.72	7.24	63.30
2	33.18	19.68	40.70
3	23.52	16.92	28.07
4	33.49	20.75	38.03
5	40.99	18.57	54.69
6	15.80	10.37	34.37
7	16.81	8.91	47.01
8	19.77	9.80	50.43
9	28.20	16.20	42.54
10	40.55	22.86	43.63
11	30.46	11.85	61.10
12	31.66	13.77	56.50