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Risk of P Movement from Soils of the Suwannee River Basin W.G. Harris 1 , V.D. Nair 1 , R.D. Rhue 1 , D.A. Graetz 1 , R.S. Mylavarapu 1 C.C. Truman 2 1 Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida 2 USDA-ARS, Tifton, Georgia USDA-Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems Willie Harris, Vimala Nair, and Dean Rhue
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Risk of P Movement from Soils of the Suwannee River Basin

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Risk of P Movement from Soils of the Suwannee River Basin. Willie Harris, Vimala Nair, and Dean Rhue. W.G. Harris 1 , V.D. Nair 1 , R.D. Rhue 1 , D.A. Graetz 1 , R.S. Mylavarapu 1 C.C. Truman 2. USDA-Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Page 1: Risk of P Movement  from Soils of the Suwannee River Basin

Risk of P Movement from Soils of the Suwannee River Basin

W.G. Harris1, V.D. Nair1, R.D. Rhue1, D.A. Graetz1, R.S. Mylavarapu1

C.C. Truman2

1 Soil and Water Science Department, University of Florida2 USDA-ARS, Tifton, Georgia

USDA-Initiative for Future Agriculture and Food Systems

Willie Harris, Vimala Nair, and Dean Rhue

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Topics

• Hydrology – Soils –P (& N) Transport

• Predicting Vertical P Movement in Soils

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30 km

Drainage: Surface vs. SubsurfaceLower Suwannee Basin

Important factor inpotential P transport

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Surface Drainage of “Flatwoods” (“Surface” entails some shallow subsurface flow in E

horizon, which is minimally retentive of P)

E

Bh

Spodosol

Aquitard

2 m

Runoff: HighErosion: LowLeaching: LowDenitrification: High

P loss risk: High

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Subsurface Drainage (Karst)(Flow in soil zone mainly vertical)

E E

Bt

Entisol Ultisol

10 m

Runoff: LowErosion: LowLeaching: VariableDenitrification: Low

P loss risk: Variable

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Sand grain coatings,

their presence or absence,

makes a big difference in

P retention capacity

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Toward a More Quantitative Site Specific Assessment of Leaching Potential

• Capacity Approach– What is the remaining capacity?

• Retardation Approach– How many “pore volumes” before

“breakthrough” of elevated P concentrations at a given depth.

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Calculated Remaining P Sorption Capacity vs. P Concentrations in Porewater

y = -958.09x + 196.97

R2 = 0.8412

-4000

-3500

-3000

-2500

-2000

-1500

-1000

-500

0

500

1000

0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.5 4.0

P concentration, mg L-1

Ca

pa

cit

y f

or

sa

tura

tio

n r

ati

o 0

.15

, k

g P

/ha

/cm

Remaining “Safe P Storage Capacity” for sandy soils- SPSC

(PSR0 – Soil PSR)(Oxalate Fe + Al)

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0-20 -20 0 2020 40 60 -40-60

Minimally-impacted dairy Heavily-impacted dairy

2 m

“Safe” P Storage Capacity (mg kg-1)

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Modeling P Retardation:RPA = “Relative P Adsorption Capacity”

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CapacityApproach

RetardationApproach

Captures previous loading effect?

Captures time factor?

Works for naturally phosphatic soils?

Yes Not well

Yes

Yes

Indirectly

No

Leaching Assessment Approaches are Complementary

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Summary of Findings, to Date

1. Predicted vs. observed P movement - reasonably close.

2. Typical “safe lifespan” of application site - a few years*.3. Phosphate effects realized later than nitrate effects. (BUT …)4. Phosphate effects realized longer than nitrate effects.

*A loamy horizon (Bt) could extend this greatly, barring preferential flow.

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Acknowledgements• Technical staff: Bill Reve, Greg Means, Dawn Lucas, Keith Hollien • Members of the Florida P-Index Committee.• Graduate student: Myrlene Chrystostome, Omar Harvey, Daniel

Herrera, Rav Ramnarine, Leighton Walker