Sediment loss
Estimation of furrow irrigation sediment loss using an artificial neural network
... tion sediment loss has been a subject of research for over half a ...predict sediment loss with limited success (Fornstrom and Borrelli 1985; O ’ Donkor ...soil loss (SISL) model was ...
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Evaluation of the variability in runoff and sediment loss in successional fallow vegetation of Southern Nigeria
... and sediment vis-à-vis nutrient loss; these studies neglect other vegetation characteristics such as crown cover, basal cover, tree diameter or girth, litter depth, root mass, and root system as well as ...
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Sediment loss and its cause in Puerto Rico watersheds
... with sediment loading from the study ...ment loss from the study watersheds, however, and land use is a factor that can be ...and sediment loss, the natural vegetation has often been destroyed ...
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Controlling erosion and sediment loss from furrow-irrigated cropland
... Individual irrigation and seasonal sediment losses have been measured on more than 100 furrow irrigated fields over the preceding 20 years in attempts to relate furrow slope, furrow stre[r] ...
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Influence of irrigation water quality on sediment loss from furrows
... In addition, the weakening of furrow aggregates and increased soil dispersion under low EC and/or high SAR conditions promoted entrainment of sediment in the furrow stream and contribute[r] ...
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Controlling erosion and sediment loss on furrow-irrigated land
... The sediment removal efficiencies of sediment basins, minibasins, vege- tative filters, straw in furrows, and a buried-pipe runoff control system were determined by measuring water and s[r] ...
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Reducing erosion and sediment loss from furrow irrigated slopes
... Loose grain straw placed by hand in furrows, on several different sloping plot studies, slowed the water that in turn reduced erosion and sediments by as high as 71% while at the same ti[r] ...
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The Effect of Using Chip and Slash in Reducing Sheet Erosion on Forest Road Slopes
... the loss of sediment on newly constructed forest road slopes and investigated the annual amount of sediment loss on bare forest road ...suspended sediment calculated in the ...soil ...
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Modularised process based modelling of phosphorus loss at farm and catchment scale
... of loss, Walling et al. (2002) suggested that the contribution to sediment loss from fields located in the valleys close to the stream at Cliftonthorpe would be relatively high, partly due to greater ...
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Erosion and infiltration of furrow irrigated potato fields as affected by zone subsoiling
... The relative effectiveness of zone subsoiling at increasing infiltration and reducing sediment loss was greater in 1990 when the study was conducted on a field with a greater slope than [r] ...
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Comparison of Cotton-based Hydro-mulches and Conventional Wood and Paper Hydro-mulches – Study 1
... Soil erosion from steep slopes, bare soil, or construction sites is a problem that can create on-site gullies, make revegetation difficult, and adversely affect downstream water bodies and aquatic ecosystems. Mulches ...
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Surfactant and irrigation effects on wettable soils: runoff, erosion, and water retention responses
... and sediment loss were measured and soil samples were ...runoff, sediment loss, splash loss, or tension infiltration, compared to the ...
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Combining cottage cheese whey and straw reduces erosion while increasing infiltration in furrow irrigation
... Straw + whey was the most effective treatment for reducing sediment outflows from both the upper section and the total length, with a reduction in sediment loss of 97 and 96%, respective[r] ...
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Tests of Tillage and Amendments to Remediate Infiltration in Post-Construction Site Soils.
... Soils are compacted during land development through soil excavation and heavy equipment traffic. Compacted soils have limited infiltration and are susceptible to erosion. Infiltration can be enhanced by various ...
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Furrow irrigation water-quality effects on soil loss and infiltration
... Conversely, increasing the SAR of the irrigation water increased total sediment loss and the mean sediment concentration in outflow, reduced net infiltration, and increased the rate of f[r] ...
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Two dimensional modelling of flood flows and suspended sediment transport: the case of the Brenta River, Veneto (Italy)
... suspended sediment concentra- tion in the channels is much lower than in the ...A sediment loss at the inlets of about 10 000 m 3 in a 12 h tidal cycle has been calculated when a north-east wind ...
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Influence of polymer charge type and density on polyacrylamide ameliorated irrigated furrow erosion
... Cationic or anionic PAM treatments having high charge densities appeared to be more effective for reducing sediment loss from furrows than low-charge density polymers.. Sediment loss dat[r] ...
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HESS Opinions: Socio economic and ecological trade offs of flood management – benefits of a transdisciplinary approach
... Another poorly appreciated impact of levees is on carbon and nitrogen sequestration. Wet soils store large amounts of organic carbon and nitrogen (Wiesmeier et al., 2012), espe- cially when managed as grasslands (Jenny, ...
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Rethinking the Mississippi River diversion for effective capture of riverine sediments
... of sediment loads from the upper river basin should not be considered as the major cause for the past-century land loss in coastal ...land loss, as they have constrained the continuous ...
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A Preliminary Assessment of Physical Properties of Sediment at Sembrong Reservoir
... of sediment, the Sembrong reservoir is slowly endangered due to the shrinkage of reservoir ...the sediment which could be used as control in future research in the treatment of contaminated ...of ...
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