Reducing microbial contamination in storm runoff from high use areas on California coastal dairies

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1731-1743

  Lewis, D J ^a   Atwill, E R ^b   Lennox, M S ^a   Pereira, M D G ^b   Miller, W A ^b   Conrad, P A ^b   Tate, K W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA COOPERATIVE EXTENSION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal feeding operation; Conservation practice effectiveness; Critical area planting; Fecal coliform bacteria; Vegetative buffer strip

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATION; ANIMAL FEEDING OPERATIONS; BUFFER STRIP; CRITICAL AREA; FECAL COLIFORM BACTERIA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIOLOGY; CLIMATOLOGY; FARMS; FEEDING; MANURES; RUNOFF; STORMS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY;

COLIFORM BACTERIA;

RUNOFF; STORM WATER; SURFACE WATER; RAIN;

BIOINDICATOR; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DAIRY FARMING; HARVESTING; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; RUNOFF; SOIL SURFACE; STOCKING DENSITY; STORM; SURFACE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; COASTAL WATERS; FECAL COLIFORM; LIVESTOCK; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; RANGELAND; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION CONTROL; WATER QUALITY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CATTLE; DAIRYING; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL; STANDARD; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CATTLE; DAIRYING; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES; FEMALE; RAIN; SOIL; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 73349131414     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2009.561     Document Type: Article

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