Retaining Performance of Four Types of Drainage Ditch on Phosphorus: Field Work
Publication: Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering
Volume 146, Issue 11
Abstract
Drainage ditches are effective agricultural facilities because they can drain excess water from the field, and an eco-friendly drainage ditch can also eliminate agricultural nonpoint source pollution effectively. Field work has been conducted in four types of drainage ditches with different revetment techniques, i.e., a two-stage ditch with a woodpile bank, a single trapezoidal ditch with a geotextile bag, a hollow hexagonal brick, and a reinforced vegetative bank revetment. The corresponding retention capacity of phosphorus in these ditches has been investigated. Results show that two-stage ditches can retain dissolved phosphorus (DP) more effectively compared to the other three single trapezoidal drainage ditches, and the retention efficiency is as high as 60%. The concentration of total suspended sediment (TSS) is positively correlated with that of total phosphorus (TP), and the retention capacity of drainage ditches on phosphorus will decrease as discharge increases. Current work proves that a well-designed two-stage section ditch can effectively eliminate the nonpoint source pollution during practical agriculture drainage application.
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All data, models, and code generated or used during the study appear in the published article.
Acknowledgments
This work was supported in part by the National Research and Development Program of China (No. 2016YFA0600901), National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 518 79197), and Hubei Natural Science Foundation (No. 2018CFA010).
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Volume 146 • Issue 11 • November 2020
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Received: Dec 31, 2019
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Published online: Aug 25, 2020
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