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Main Title Nitrogen and irrigation management to reduce return-flow pollution in the Columbia Basin /
Author McNeal, Brian Lester,
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Carille, Bobby L.
CORP Author Washington State Univ., Pullman. Dept. of Agronomy and Soils.;Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Lab., Ada, Okla.
Publisher U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory,
Year Published 1976
Report Number EPA-600/2-76-158; EPA-S-801187
Stock Number PB-259 328
OCLC Number 02588862
Subjects Irrigation water ; Soils--Nitrogen content ; Groundwater--Pollution ; Groundwater--Pollution--Washington ; Water, Underground--Pollution--Washington
Additional Subjects Irrigation ; Nitrogen ; Water pollution ; Columbia River Basin ; Leaching ; Inorganic nitrates ; Fertilizers ; Effectiveness ; Farm crops ; Sprinkler irrigation ; Residues ; Sampling ; Plant tissues ; Surface irrigation ; Water quality management ; Field tests ; Potatoes ; Washington(State) ; Return flow ; Irrigation effects ; Crop response ; Slow release fertilizers
Internet Access
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https://nepis.epa.gov/Exe/ZyPDF.cgi?Dockey=9101MLPH.PDF
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EJBD  EPA 600-2-76-158 c.1 Headquarters Library/Washington,DC 04/10/2014
ELBD ARCHIVE EPA 600-2-76-158 Received from HQ AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH 10/04/2023
EMBD  EPA/600/2-76/158 NRMRL/GWERD Library/Ada,OK 02/03/1995
ESAD  EPA 600-2-76-158 Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA 03/23/2010
NTIS  PB-259 328 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation ix, 141 pages : illustrations, figures, tables ; 28 cm.
Abstract
Cooperative field studies have evaluated dissolved-N levels and leaching, and corresponding crop yields, for potato production practices in the Columbia Basin area of Washington. High dissolved-N levels (with resultant high potential for return-flow pollution) were found throughout the growing season in well-managed potato fields, with levels decreased by decreasing fertilization rate, use of slow-release N fertilizers or nitrification inhibitors, or sprinkler application of N fertilizers. Careful water management with solid-set sprinkler proved capable of maintaining dissolved-N within the root zone of subsequent crops by season's end, even on very sandy sites. Alternate-furrow irrigation proved effective in 'trapping' banded fertilizer N within the plant root zone on heavier-textured furrow-irrigated soils.
Notes
"Grant No. S-801187." Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-104).