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Publication Type:
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Author(s): | Rufty, Tom;
Bowman, Dan |
Author Affiliation: | Research Professors, The Center for Turfgrass Environmental Research and Education, North Carolina State University |
Title: | Nitrogen fertilization on golf courses: A water-quality problem? |
Section: | Green light on golf Other records with the "Green light on golf" Section
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Source: | North Carolina Turfgrass. May/June 2004, p. 24-26. |
Publishing Information: | [Raleigh, NC: North Carolina State University] |
# of Pages: | 3 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Nitrogen fertilization; Water quality; Groundwater contamination; Leaching; Algae; Surface runoff; Best management practices; Nitrate nitrogen; Nitrogen uptake; Soil analysis
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Abstract/Contents: | Discusses the possible effects of nitrogen fertilization on water quality in areas near golf courses. States that "a three-year field study was conducted to determine whether golf courses were a major cause of nitrogen pollution of ground and surface water in eastern North Carolina." Details methods and materials used in the study, stating that "experimental sites were established on ten golf courses in eastern North Carolina. The locations were chosen based on several criteria. One was that they represented a variety of soil types, because soil texture strongly influences leaching. Secondly, [researchers] wanted to examine golf courses of different ages, thinking that older courses could have very different levels of organic matter and compaction compared to younger ones. Thirdly, it was important that the research be located on golf courses willing to cooperate and put up with [researchers'] intrusion." States that researchers' "initial expectation was that [they] would find high nitrate levels in soil solution and subsurface water beneath the turfgrass system and, consequently, a high potential for water pollution." Reports that "more nitrogen was being incorporated into the clippings during the growing season than was being supplied in fertilizer." Also reports that "some elevation in nitrate could be seen as subsurface water moved from unfertilized, natural areas to the fairways, but levels were relatively low, ranging from ~ 2 to 8 ppm [parts per million]." Concludes that "managed turfgrasses may serve a similar function as the riparian buffers being constructed to protect streams and lakes from nitrate contamination...With this in mind, it is conceivable that turfgrass systems may occupy an important role in strategies to protect water supplies in the future." |
Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
Note: | Reprint appears in Tennessee Turfgrass, June/July 2004, p. 17-21, with variant pictures and variant graphs Pictures, color Figures |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Rufty, T., and D. Bowman. 2004. Nitrogen fertilization on golf courses: A water-quality problem?. N.C. Turfgrass. p. 24-26. |
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