Effect of Initial Soil Moisture Conditions on Runoff Transport of Manure-borne Pathogens through Vegetated Filter Strips

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dc.contributor.advisorShirmohammadi, Adelen_US
dc.contributor.authorCardoso-Gendreau, Fatima Araujoen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMarine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciencesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-02-01T20:21:48Z
dc.date.available2007-02-01T20:21:48Z
dc.date.issued2006-11-21en_US
dc.description.abstractPollution of drinking and recreational water supplies with manure-borne pathogenic bacteria through surface runoff from agricultural lands is a public health threat, particularly, where there is concentrated animal production (e.g., Iowa). This study was conducted to investigate the effect of initial soil moisture conditions on the effectiveness of vegetated filters strips (VFS) to mitigate surface runoff transport of two surrogate pathogenic bacteria, Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica enterica Typhimurium, from land-applied swine slurry. A 5% slope lysimeter containing clay loam soil was constructed, partitioned into vegetated and bare plots, and the plots instrumented to collect, measure, and sample runoff at different time intervals and at two distances from the slurry application area during rainfall simulations. Results indicated that the potential of VFS to attenuate runoff transport of pathogens was reduced under increased initial soil moisture conditions, indicating that infiltration is an important factor in the mitigation process.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/4126
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEnvironmental Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHydrologyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEngineering, Environmentalen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledbuffer stripsen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledpathogensen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledoverland flowen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtransporten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledinfiltrationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledbromideen_US
dc.titleEffect of Initial Soil Moisture Conditions on Runoff Transport of Manure-borne Pathogens through Vegetated Filter Stripsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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