Soil chemistry and phosphorus retention capacity of North Carolina coastal plain swamps receiving sewage effluent

Technical Report · Tue Nov 01 00:00:00 EST 1988

OSTI ID:5632637

Richardson, C J; Walbridge, M R; Burns, A

Several hundred freshwater swamps in North Carolina currently receive municipal waste-water inputs. In the study researchers examined three Coastal Plain wetlands to (1) characterize their soil chemical properties, (2) determine short-term and long-term effects of effluent additions on soil chemistry, (3) estimate the phosphorus sorption capacities of these swamp soils and determine the relationship between P sorption capacity and soil chemistry, and (4) develop a predictive index to evaluate the P sorption potentials of other N.C. Coastal Plain swamps.

• Research Organization: North Carolina Water Resources Research Inst., Raleigh, NC (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5632637
• Report Number(s): PB-89-193395/XAB; UNC-WRRI-88-241
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of this document are not fully legible
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
COASTAL REGIONS
WETLANDS
NORTH CAROLINA
SEWAGE
GROUND DISPOSAL
SWAMPS
SOIL CHEMISTRY
LAND POLLUTION
CHEMICAL PROPERTIES
EVALUATION
NITROGEN
NUTRIENTS
PHOSPHORUS
PLANTS
SORPTION
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
CHEMISTRY
ECOSYSTEMS
ELEMENTS
FEDERAL REGION IV
MANAGEMENT
NONMETALS
NORTH AMERICA
POLLUTION
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
USA
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES
510200* - Environment
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