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Soil Absorbs Phosphorus
Readily, Renovates Water
University Park Fine-tex- onto virtually all the rest of the
tured soils have the ability to phosphorus
or ™ A The Penn State research has
phorus from sewage effluent „ , ~ , , , ,
than would be added in 100 found that water and P lant nu ‘
years if two inches of effluent trients from municipal sewage
were applied weekly. This was treatment plants, which cause
announced recently by Dr. pollution problems when fed in-
Louis T. Kardos of The Penn- to streams or lakes, can be uti
sylvania State University daring Hzed in small or medium sized
annual meetings of the Ameri- communities by irrigating near
can Society of Agronomy in hy farm and forest land with the
New Orleans, La. chlorinated effluent.
Dr. Kardos said the adsorp- The experiments determined
tiv& or holding capacity of fine- that only 129 acres of land
ly divided inorganic clay par- would be needed to utilize the
tides in the upper 5 feet of fine- one million gallons of waste
textured Hagerstown soil water produced daily in a com
could hold onto 20,000 pounds munity of 10,000 persons. This
of phosphorus at one experi- would be applied with an irri
mental site at Penn State. gation system putting on two
This adsorptive or holding inches of effluent weekly,
capacity of these clay particles Dr. Eardos and associates be
becomes a safety valve in ren- lieve such use of effluent may
ovating sewage effluent, he ex- become a hidden resource for
plained While plant roots be- communities. The renovated
come a “living filter” in taking water trickles down to the
up as much as 39 per cent of ground water reservoir and
the phosphorus in sewage ef- thence to wells, springs, and
fluent, the clay particles hold streams. Such water easily
we recommend
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, November 30,1968
# £ounty FFA
N (Contmued from Page 1)
Paul Eekman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Eekman, Strasburg
Rl, was elected by the present
County officers and will be in
stalled at the January meeting.
The new president-elect has
corn, tobacco, sheep, fattening
hogs, 3 dairy animals and 4
sows as projects. He is interest
ed in Forestry, and has planted
1000 trees on his family’s farm.
He succeeds Linford Martin,
East Earl Rl. Garden Spot High
School as the County Chapter
head.
Other officers are: Lester
Bowman, vice president, Garden
Spot; Paul Clark, secretary, Pe
quea Valley; Jeff Pfautz, trea
surer, Ephrata; Burnell Buch
en, reportei, Manheim; Ken
Weaver, sentinel, Warwick;
Thomas Aaron, chaplain, So
lanco; Carl Erb, corresponding
secretary. Penn Manor; Michael
Baum, parliamentarian, Eliza
bethtown
meets standards for potable
water as set by the U.S Public
Health Service.
In four years of drought at
State College, hay yields in
creased by 2 to 3’ tons per acre
where 1 or 2 inches of waste
water were applied weekly.
Corn yields increased by 30 to
50 bushels per acre in conven
tional rows 38 inches apart.
Such benefits could help to pay
costs of installing an irrigation
system.
Since any effluent disposal
system must operate through
out the year, the system in
northern climates must rely
more on the adsorptive capacity
of the soil than on the “living
filter” take-up of plant nutri
ents.
Forested areas fit into the
system by providing better win
ter infiltration conditions than
cropland and also larger phos
phorus adsorptive capacities
under the acid conditions asso
ciated with forest soils.
Dr. Kardos has been associat
ed with the sewage effluent ex
permiments at Penn State since
they were begun in 1962. Re
cently he was appointed coor
dinator of the Waste Water
Renovation and Conservation
Research Project at the Uni
versity.
It’s the fellow who arrives an
hour late who wants to talk
when everybody else is ready to
adjourn.
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