Grants and Contracts Details
Description
This project will demonstrate the use of microprocessor flow controls for
enhancing the design, construction, and performance of SLSBs and WTS on farms across
a wide geographic area of Kentucky. Cooperative animal production enterprises will vary
based on herd size and geographic proximity to other cooperative farms in order to
disseminate our efforts effectively. The project will demonstrate methods for renovating
SLSBs to control application rates to WTS for managing nutrient concentrations,
vegetation yields, and harvesting. Vegetative species will be selected and placed in the
WTS in accordance with nutrient movement through the soil profile. This demonstration
project will use a combination of irrigation technologies to be employed to provide the
quiescent time needed to allow solids to settle from wastewater. A valve system will be
utilized to dewater manure storage structures and increase storage capacity. The
installation of rnicrocontrollers and flow control valves will be utilized to demonstrate
pulse wastewater management to control application rates to WTS in environmentally
sensitive areas.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 7/5/07 → 7/7/10 |
Funding
- Natural Resources Conservation Service: $42,677.00
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