In Saskatchewan, a study of existing earthen manure storage facilities have been realized in order to help develop siting and construction guidelines for such facilities. 6 existing facilities that had been stored hog manure for 4 to 20 years were cored below the center of the storage in order to verify the migration of solutes. Little migration of solutes was measured for the storage constructed in clay soils however, however for sandy soils conditions the results showed that solutes could migrate to 8 meters below in the case of a storage of 20 years and for another storage that had been used during 8 years, the migration was measured on a distance of 30 meters. In most Saskatchewan soils conditions the solute movement can be expected to be limited in less than 10 m and glacial clay till soils have a lower potential and migration should not exceed 5 m. In granular soils, lightly compacted clay liners over the soil don’t appear to be appropriate as manure seepage can is more likely to happen as a result of the freeze-thaw cycles. Some phenomena have to be investigated on the behavior of storage in clay till soils that don’t have liners before such construction is considered totally safe and they are: the lower seepage travel that expected, the effect of freeze-thaw and wetting-drying cycles, the validity in every conditions of the preferential flows measured to date.<\/p>\n
Earthen manure storage in clay soils and particularly when a liner is used seem to be a acceptable way to store manure as little solutes migration occurs. However, as discussed, some investigation has to be done in order to understand the soil behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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