TY - JOUR
T1 - Impact of residue management and subsurface drainage on non-point source pollution in the Arroyo Colorado
AU - Enciso, Juan
AU - Nelson, Shad D
AU - Uddameri, Venkatesh
AU - Uddameri, Venki
AU - Kannan, Narayanan
AU - Gregory, Ashley
AU - Perea, Hugo
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the Texas State Soil Water Conservation Board under Cooperative Agreement No. 06-10-07-05 and the financial support of the Texas Water Development Board for funding this project as part of the Agricultural Water Conservation Demonstration Initiative (ADI), also known as the Texas Project for Ag Water Efficiency (AWE). We are also grateful for the assistance of Xavier Peries and Jose Morales who helped with the collection of the data.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2014/10/1
Y1 - 2014/10/1
N2 - This study focused on evaluating the impact of residue management (RM) and subsurface tile drainage (SD) on non-point source pollution (NPS) from surface irrigated farms in the Arroyo Colorado (AC) watershed. The objective was to compare the impact of RM and SD on water quality information [Total suspended solids (TSS), nitrates and nitrites (NO3+NO2), orthophosphates (ortho-PO4) , total phosphorus (P), and total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN)] of irrigation runoff in six agricultural fields for two irrigation events each year during the 2009 and 2010 growing seasons. The sites that were selected for this study used best management practices (BMPs) such as conservation crop rotation, irrigation land leveling, poly-pipe use, irrigation water management, pest and nutrient management. Results illustrate that furrow irrigated fields using poly-pipe and employing RM as a BMP can lead to decreased TSS and ortho-PO4 constituents in surface water runoff, thus, lowering the potential for contamination in the AC watershed. There is still more opportunity to conserve water and reduce nutrient loadings considering that approximately 30% of the applied water was lost to runoff in some farms. Finally, results demonstrate that irrigators can play a significant role in the prevention of soluble N compounds from running off-site and into the AC watershed by monitoring irrigation application, as total runoff amounts from fields decreased in 2010 after the field managers were educated about the amount of water applied and running off the field during 2009.
AB - This study focused on evaluating the impact of residue management (RM) and subsurface tile drainage (SD) on non-point source pollution (NPS) from surface irrigated farms in the Arroyo Colorado (AC) watershed. The objective was to compare the impact of RM and SD on water quality information [Total suspended solids (TSS), nitrates and nitrites (NO3+NO2), orthophosphates (ortho-PO4) , total phosphorus (P), and total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN)] of irrigation runoff in six agricultural fields for two irrigation events each year during the 2009 and 2010 growing seasons. The sites that were selected for this study used best management practices (BMPs) such as conservation crop rotation, irrigation land leveling, poly-pipe use, irrigation water management, pest and nutrient management. Results illustrate that furrow irrigated fields using poly-pipe and employing RM as a BMP can lead to decreased TSS and ortho-PO4 constituents in surface water runoff, thus, lowering the potential for contamination in the AC watershed. There is still more opportunity to conserve water and reduce nutrient loadings considering that approximately 30% of the applied water was lost to runoff in some farms. Finally, results demonstrate that irrigators can play a significant role in the prevention of soluble N compounds from running off-site and into the AC watershed by monitoring irrigation application, as total runoff amounts from fields decreased in 2010 after the field managers were educated about the amount of water applied and running off the field during 2009.
KW - Best management practices
KW - Irrigation
KW - Water quality
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U2 - 10.1016/j.swaqe.2014.11.002
DO - 10.1016/j.swaqe.2014.11.002
M3 - Article
VL - 3
SP - 25
EP - 32
JO - Sustainability of Water Quality and Ecology
JF - Sustainability of Water Quality and Ecology
ER -