{"id":2998,"date":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/export.maxmaziy.php.nixsolutions.com\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T01:01:01","slug":"tile-drains-capture-less-water-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/tile-drains-capture-less-water-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Tile drains capture less water than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tile drains are not nearly as effective at rapidly removing<br \/>\nexcess water as people assume, a good thing if you<br \/>\nare concerned about applied animal nutrients getting into<br \/>\nsurface water bodies.<br \/>\nExperiments conducted last fall on a farm in the Upper<br \/>\nThames River watershed near Kintore were designed to<br \/>\nmimic the worst conditions for applying pig manure \u2013 wet,<br \/>\nmacroporous soil in fields that are systematically tiled. The research team found that tile drain discharge, even under<br \/>\nthose conditions, could only directly account for 10 to 15 per cent<br \/>\nof the water that was applied to the surface of the field.<br \/>\n\u201cThe bottom line,\u201d Rudolph says, \u201cis that tile drains capture<br \/>\nmuch less than we ever would have expected. It has<br \/>\nbeen conventionally assumed that the tiles have a very large<br \/>\narea of influence. Field experiments show the influence is<br \/>\nmuch smaller than we\u2019d anticipate.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cTo help us further understand the risks that tile drains<br \/>\nimpose on our water resources,\u201d says Rudolph, \u201cmore field<br \/>\nexperiments are being conducted in other geological settings<br \/>\nand under a wider range of climate conditions.\u201d He also<br \/>\nadds that movement of the chemical tracers applied last fall<br \/>\nis still being monitored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tile drains are not nearly as effective at rapidly removing excess water as people assume, a good thing if you are concerned about applied animal nutrients getting into surface water bodies. Experiments conducted last fall on a farm in the Upper Thames River watershed near Kintore were designed to mimic the worst conditions for applying [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8882,640,10871,10033,13816,1972,19644,23694,27280,6492,20792,169,13564,14,266,16262,424,3802,2365,757,14980,20911,4874,6684,69],"class_list":["post-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-al","tag-animal","tag-apply","tag-arc","tag-ass","tag-condition","tag-dd","tag-dir","tag-environment","tag-help","tag-influence","tag-manure","tag-people","tag-pig","tag-pig-manure","tag-pl","tag-pollution","tag-resource","tag-risk","tag-runoff","tag-search","tag-t","tag-tan","tag-tile-drains","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/prairieswine.com\/rsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}