Phosphorus retention in a newly constructed wetland receiving agricultural tile drainage water.

Dynamics of phosphorus transport and retention in a wetland receiving drainage water from agricultural clay soils

The role of seepage in constructed wetlands receiving agricultural tile drainage

Constructed wetlands positioned in the landscape between row crop agriculture and surface waters can be used to intercept tile drainage and serve as agricultural waste water detention basins. A potential exit pathway in constructed wetlands for detained water and possibly NO3 -N is via seepage through and under an earthen berm. The objective of this study was to determine if seepage was an impo...

Nutrient Content at the Sediment-Water Interface of Tile-Fed Agricultural Drainage Ditches

Extensive network of tile drains present in the Midwest USA accelerate losses of nutrients to receiving ditches, rivers and eventually to the Gulf of Mexico. Nutrient inputs from agricultural watersheds and their role in affecting water quality have received increased attention recently; however, benthic sediment-nutrient interactions in tile-fed drainage ditches is still a matter of active res...

Effectiveness of Constructed Wetlands in Reducing Nitrogen and Phosphorus Export from Agricultural Tile Drainage

nutrient in estuaries. Phosphorus enters surface waters in both dissolved and particulate form and is generally Much of the nonpoint N and P entering surface waters of the the limiting nutrient in lakes. A large portion of the N Midwest is from agriculture. We determined if constructed wedands could be used to reduce nonpoint N and P exports from agricultural and P now entering U.S. freshwater ...

The effect of the redox-potential on the retention of phosphorus in a small constructed wetland.

Building wetlands in small arable streams is a popular supplement to best management practice on arable fields. Particle bound phosphorus settles in the small constructed wetlands (CWs), receiving agricultural diffuse pollution. The sorption behavior of phosphorus is, however, redox-sensitive, and bound phosphorus may be remobilized in periods with low redox potential. This paper investigates c...