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Published in J Environ Qual 3:46-49 (1974)
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Nitrate-Nitrogen and Phosphorus Contents of Streams Draining Small Agricultural Watersheds in Kentucky1

Grant W. Thomas and James D. Crutchfield2

ABSTRACT

Eight streams draining agricultural watersheds in the important physiographic regions of Kentucky were sampled monthly from January through May in both 1971 and 1972. The objective of the study was to determine the effects of land use and geology on the concentrations of nitrate-N and P in the stream water. The land use ranged from almost completely forested to mostly cultivated. There was not a good relationship between nitrate-N and land use. Nitrate-N varied from 6 ppm to zero, with the highest value being found in a stream draining a watershed which was 98% in bluegrass pasture. The P concentrations in the stream water were closely related to local geology and not to land use. A comparison between the 1921 data of McHargue and Peter and 1971–72 data from the same geological areas showed very little change in mean nitrate-N or P concentrations.

Key Words: geology • land use • water quality

NOTES

1 Contribution from the Department of Agronomy, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington. The research reported in this paper was supported in part by the Office of Water Resources Research, USDI, under the provisions of Public Law 88-379, as Project No. A-024-Ky. This paper (No. 73-3-6) is published with the approval of the Director of the Kentucky Agr. Exp. Sta.

2 Professor and Research Associate in Agronomy, respectively.

Received for publication April 6, 1973.




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