Polyacrylamide soil amendment effects on runoff and sediment yield on steep slopes: Part II. Natural rainfall conditions

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1339-1351

  Flanagan, Dennis C ^a   Chaudhari, Kiran ^b,c   Norton, L Darrell ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b BP AMERICA INC   (United States)

^c Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Construction sites; Erosion control; PAM; Polyacrylamide; Polymers; Reclamation; Soil amendments; Soil erosion; Vegetation establishment

Indexed keywords

EMBANKMENTS; LAND FILL; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTS; SPRAYING; WATER QUALITY;

STEEP SLOPES;

SOILS;

EROSION CONTROL; POLYMER; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SEDIMENT YIELD; SLOPE; SOIL AMENDMENT;

EID: 0347926343     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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