Surface water nitrate (NO~-) pollution from agricultural production is well established, although few studies have linked field N budgets, NO~loss in tile drained watersheds, and surface water NO~loads. This study was conducted to determine field sources, transport, and river export of NO~from an agricultural watershed. The Embarras River watershed at Camargo (48 173 ha) in east-central Illinoi...

Subsurface drainage influences the gaseous exchange in soils and improves crop productivity. Thus, gas diffusivity were monitored on a long-term drainage/tillage experiment established in 1994 at the Waterman Farm of The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA. Specific objectives of the present study were to compare the gas diffusion and physical properties (bulk density and water retention) ...

The Midwestern United States is dominated by agricultural production with high concentrations of swine, leading to application of swine manure onto lands with artificial subsurface drainage. Previous reports have indicated elevated levels of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in surface water and groundwater around confined animal feeding operations which administer antimicrobials. While previo...

Application of municipal biosolids (sewage) to agricultural land is a common practice to improve soil physical quality and fertility. The chosen method of land application can have a strong impact on the extent of adjacent water contamination by nutrients and bacteria. Dewatered municipal biosolids (DMB) were applied to silt-clay loam experimental field plots in Ontario, Canada using two applic...

Agricultural chemical transport to surface water and the linkage to other hydrological compartments, principally ground water, was investigated at five watersheds in semiarid to humid climatic settings. Chemical transport was affected by storm water runoff, soil drainage, irrigation, and how streams were linked to shallow ground water systems. Irrigation practices and timing of chemical use gre...

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 ...