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RECORD NUMBER: 19 OF 361Main Title | Agricultural NPS Control of Phosphorus in the New York State, Lake Ontario Basin. Volume 1. Delivery of Phosphorus to Lake Ontario from Cultivated Mucklands in Oak Orchard Creek Watershed. | |||||||||||
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Author | Longabucco, P. ; Rafferty, M. R. ; | |||||||||||
CORP Author | New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation, Albany. Div. of Water.;Environmental Protection Agency, Chicago, IL. Great Lakes National Program Office. | |||||||||||
Publisher | Feb 91 | |||||||||||
Year Published | 1991 | |||||||||||
Report Number | EPA-R005725-01; EPA/905/9-91/006A ; GL-06A/91 | |||||||||||
Stock Number | PB93-128015 | |||||||||||
Additional Subjects | Phosphorous ; Agricultural runoff ; Lake Ontario ; Watershed management ; New York ; Nonpoint sources ; Sediments ; Pesticide residues ; Water chemistry ; Nutrient removal ; Oak Orchard Creek Watershed ; Muck soils | |||||||||||
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Collation | 72p | |||||||||||
Abstract | Cultivated mucklands in western New York State were investigated as a nonpoint source of phosphorus to Lake Ontario. The 70,500-ha Oak Orchard Creek watershed, which drains to Lake Ontario, was selected for the study area. It is located in Genesee and Orleans Counties, New York, and contains 3250 ha of heavily fertilized muck cropland on which predominantly vegetable crops are grown. The creek was monitored at several sites from May 1984 through April 1985 to determine the role of the mucklands in annual phosphorus loading to the lake. At an upstream site which drained approximately 10,200 ha, including the majority of the muck cropland, the creek load was 18,000 kg of total phosphorus with 75 percent of it as dissolved reactive phosphorus. |