Nutrient, metal and microbial loss in surface runoff following treated sludge and dairy cattle slurry application to an Irish grassland soil

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 541, Issue , 2016, Pages 218-229

  Peyton, D P ^a,b   Healy, M G ^b   Fleming, G T A ^b   Grant, J ^a   Wall, D ^a   Morrison, L ^b   Cormican, M ^b   Fenton, O ^a  

^a TEAGASC   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Biosolids; Dairy cattle slurry, rainfall simulator; Metals, faecal coliforms, total coliforms; Nutrients; Surface runoff

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL RUNOFF; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; BIOSOLIDS; CADMIUM; COPPER; FERTILIZERS; LEAD; LEAD REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT); METALS; NICKEL; NITROGEN; NUTRIENTS; PHOSPHORUS; PUBLIC POLICY; RAIN; RUNOFF; SEWAGE SLUDGE; SLURRY PIPELINES; ZINC;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; DISSOLVED REACTIVE PHOSPHORUS; FAECAL COLIFORMS; MICROBIAL INDICATORS; MUNICIPAL SEWAGE SLUDGE; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; RAINFALL SIMULATORS; SURFACE RUNOFFS;

WATER POLLUTION;

AMMONIA; CADMIUM; CHROMIUM; COPPER; FERTILIZER; LEAD; METAL; NICKEL; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RAIN; RUNOFF; ZINC; MANURE; SOIL POLLUTANT;

BIOSOLID; FECAL COLIFORM; GRASSLAND SOIL; HEAVY METAL; NUTRIENT LOSS; RAINFALL; RUNOFF; SLUDGE; SLURRY;

AGRICULTURAL SLURRY; ARTICLE; BIOSOLID; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE SLURRY; FECAL COLIFORM; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; GRASSLAND; IRELAND; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE TREATMENT; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL TREATMENT; ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BOVINE; DAIRYING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MANURE; MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER FLOW;

IRELAND;

BOS;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DAIRYING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRASSLAND; IRELAND; MANURE; METALS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; SOIL POLLUTANTS; WATER MOVEMENTS;

EID: 84942275014     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.09.053     Document Type: Article

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