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Design and Construction of an Urban Runoff Research Facility

Design and Construction of an Urban Runoff Research Facility

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August 08, 2014

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10.3791/51540-v

DOI:
10.3791/51540-v

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1Soil and Crop Sciences Department,Texas A&M University, 2The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company

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This paper describes the design, construction, and function of a 1,000 m2 facility containing 24 individual 33.6 m2 field plots equipped for measuring total runoff volumes with time and collection of runoff subsamples at selected intervals for quantification of chemical constituents in the runoff water from simulated home lawns.

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Wherley, B. G., White, R. H., McInnes, K. J., Fontanier, C. H., Thomas, J. C., Aitkenhead-Peterson, J. A., Kelly, S. T. Design and Construction of an Urban Runoff Research Facility. J. Vis. Exp. (90), e51540, doi:10.3791/51540 (2014).

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