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

Technical Report · Tue Nov 01 04:00:00 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
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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