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  title info:
    title: Contour ripping and composted dairy manure for erosion control on Fort Hood Military Installation, Texas
  name:
    name part: Prcin, Lisa J.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Smeins, Fred E.
    name part: 1941-
    role:
      role term: thesis advisor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Training activities on the Fort Hood Military Installation have imposed serious impacts to its grass-dominated landscape. Six decades of tracked vehicle impacts have caused soil compaction and vegetation reduction which has lead to severe surface erosion. This investigation examined two conservation practices directed at improving and creating sustainable training conditions on Fort Hood training lands, contour ripping and the application of composted dairy manure. The application of composted dairy manure may increase vegetation, while contour ripping may decrease discharge, both of which will lead to a decrease in erosion. Three small 0.30 ha watersheds were established on Fort Hood in January 2005. Each watershed had 0.46 m berms installed on all four sides with a 0.305 m H-flume and was equipped with automated storm sampling equipment. Soil samples were collected prior to any treatments, and twice after compost applications. Discharge and precipitation was collected continuously on each watershed. Stormwater samples were collected during storm events and analyzed for water quality parameters. Water quality samples, discharge and precipitation records were collected between January 2005 and July 2007. Three composted dairy manure application rates at 0, 28 and 57 m³ ha⁻¹ were applied on watersheds C0, C1 and C2, respectively; watersheds were evaluated for effects on NO₃ and soluble reactive phosphates (SRP) concentrations and loadings in storm events and on stormwater discharge. Twenty two months after the initial compost application, the two previously composted watersheds (C1 and C2) were treated with contour ripping and C2 received a second compost application. The compost application caused the spikes in NO₃ and SRP concentrations and loads immediately after application. Both NO₃ and SRP concentrations decreased as the number of days from application increased. Compost application did not appear to have an effect on the discharge from watersheds. Contour ripp…
  note: by Lisa J. Prcin.
  note: "Major Subject: Rangeland Ecology and Management"
  note: Title from author supplied metadata (automated record created 2010-08-20 08:31:34).
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Master of Science Texas A&M University 2009 http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-681
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  note: Text (Thesis)
  subject:
    topic: Major Rangeland Ecology and Management
  subject:
    topic: compost application
  subject:
    topic: contour ripping
  subject:
    topic: water quality
  identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2009-05-681
  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 100906
    record change date: 20160914082226.0
    record identifier: in00002635247