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Title: USING VEGETATED BUFFER SYSTEMS TO TREAT ANIMAL WASTE

Author
item Hubbard, Robert
item NEWTON, G - UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA

Submitted to: Soil Conservation and Water Quality Symposium Proceedings
Publication Type: Abstract Only
Publication Acceptance Date: 6/19/1999
Publication Date: N/A
Citation: HUBBARD, R.K., NEWTON, G.L. USING VEGETATED BUFFER SYSTEMS TO TREAT ANIMAL WASTE. SOIL CONSERVATION AND WATER QUALITY SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS. PAGE 3. 1999.

Interpretive Summary:

Technical Abstract: Since the early 1990s studies have been conducted in south Georgia to evaluate using vegetated buffers to treat animal lagoon wastewater. The fundamental concept is that vegetated buffers in the wetter part of the landscape (not wetlands) can be effective in utilizing nutrients contained with lagoon wastewater. Plants remove nutrients (grasses, trees or wetland species) and may also be lost by microbial processes. Use of the wetter part of the landscape is particularly effective since denitrification requires anaerobic conditions and a carbon and nitrogen source that are both supplied by the wastewater. This paper reports results from a replicated plot study where swine lagoon wastewater was applied by overland flow and discusses two new studies, one at the farm scale with swine lagoon wastewater and one with alligator lagoon wastewater.