Cold-climate vegetative buffer zones as pesticide-filters for surface runoff.

Vegetative Filter Strips Reduce Runoff Losses and Help Protect Water Quality

Potential contamination (pollution) of surface waters with sediment, nutrients, and pesticides in agricultural runoff is an important water quality issue. Conservation tillage has been promoted and adopted by many row crop farmers because of its effectiveness in decreasing exposure to rainfall and reducing runoff and sediment loss. Vegetative filter strips (VFS), also known as buffer strips or ...

Investigation of phenological stages and pollutants’ type on the efficiency of vegetative buffer strips

Non-point source pollution is considered as a serious issue especially in the field of eutrophication for surface waters. Vegetative buffer strips include a specific plant being passed by flow before entering the waterways, so it causes to reduce runoff volume, deposited pesticides and other pollutants of the flow through infiltration, absorption and sediment deposition. The present study has b...

Advancing Intelligent Mitigation vegetative Buffer StripS a proven field Mitigation Measure to reduce pesticide runoff from agricultural fields

Selection of plants for optimization of vegetative filter strips treating runoff from turfgrass.

Runoff from turf environments, such as golf courses, is of increasing concern due to the associated chemical contamination of lakes, reservoirs, rivers, and ground water. Pesticide runoff due to fungicides, herbicides, and insecticides used to maintain golf courses in acceptable playing condition is a particular concern. One possible approach to mitigate such contamination is through the implem...

Pesticide Losses in Surface Runoff from Agricultural Fields Using Gleams and Rzwqm

Seepage zones have been shown to be of critical importance in controlling contaminant export from agricultural watersheds. To date, no multipurpose agricultural water quality model has seepage zones incorporated into its process-level representations. We chose to test two widely used models of agricultural water quality, the Groundwater Loading Effects of Agricultural Management Systems (GLEAMS...