Impacts of sewage effluent on tree survival, water quality and nutrient removal in coastal plain swamps
Technical Report
·
OSTI ID:5382391
An investigation was conducted of the impacts of sprayed municipal sewage on swamp tree survival and the effects of the swamp system on nutrient concentrations below the outfalls on two streams on the coastal plain of North Carolina. Effluent was discharged to one swamp stream by aerial spraying and to the other stream by way of a small ditch. Ninety-eight percent of the trees struck directly by the spray were dead within 18 months of the date spraying began. Both swamp systems removed sufficient quantities of nitrogen and phosphorus within a few kilometers to account for virtually all of the sewage nutrient load to the swamps.
- Research Organization:
- North Carolina Water Resources Research Inst., Raleigh (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5382391
- Report Number(s):
- PB-88-164090/XAB; UNC-WRRI-87-235
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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510200 -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)
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Aquatic-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
DISINFECTANTS
ECOSYSTEMS
ELEMENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
FEDERAL REGION IV
GERMICIDES
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
LIQUID WASTES
NITROGEN
NONMETALS
NORTH AMERICA
NORTH CAROLINA
NUTRIENTS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PHOSPHORUS
PLANTS
POLLUTANTS
POLLUTION
SEWAGE
SWAMPS
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
TREES
USA
WASTE WATER
WASTES
WATER
WATER POLLUTION
WATER QUALITY
WETLANDS
Terrestrial-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)
520200* -- Environment
Aquatic-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (-1989)
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS
DISINFECTANTS
ECOSYSTEMS
ELEMENTS
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
FEDERAL REGION IV
GERMICIDES
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
LIQUID WASTES
NITROGEN
NONMETALS
NORTH AMERICA
NORTH CAROLINA
NUTRIENTS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PHOSPHORUS
PLANTS
POLLUTANTS
POLLUTION
SEWAGE
SWAMPS
TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS
TREES
USA
WASTE WATER
WASTES
WATER
WATER POLLUTION
WATER QUALITY
WETLANDS