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| Web URL(s): | http://usgatero.msu.edu/v04/n12.pdf
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| Author(s): | Bell, Greg;
Moss, Justin |
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| Author Affiliation: | Bell: Associate Professor; Moss: Graduate Student, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma |
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| Title: | Managing golf course roughs to reduce runoff |
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| Source: | USGA Turfgrass and Environmental Research Online. Vol. 4, No. 12, June 15 2005, p. 1-9. |
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| Publishing Information: | Far Hills, NJ: United States Golf Association, Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 11 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Surface runoff; Golf fairways; Fertilization; Contamination; Precipitation; Golf rough; Phosphorus; Buffer zones; Mowing height; Golf courses; Nitrate losses; Irrigation runoff
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| Abstract/Contents: | "Few rainfall events during a season provide enough precipitation to produce runoff from golf course fairways. In addition, the management protocols practiced by superintendents add to the natural buffering capabilities of turf to help reduce golf course runoff. However, an amount as small as 1% of the phosphorus applied to golf course fairways as fertilizer could have a substantial impact on lakes and other surface water. Research suggests that a higher cut turf such as roughs bordering fairways provides a barrier to surface water runoff that must be overcome before the flow can continue down slope. Therefore, a multiple-barrier system of rough such as apron-to-first cut-to-primary rough might provide three heights of cut resulting in three barriers. This multiple- barrier strategy could provide the best alternative to reducing nutrient runoff from fairways. The objective of this research was to compare this multiple-barrier strategy with the single-buffer strategy that is already known to be effective. The research found: The multiple barrier strategy reduced natural rainfall runoff by 19% and irrigation runoff by 16% compared with the single-buffer strategy. The multiple-barrier strategy reduced N loss by 17% in natural rainfall runoff and by 18% in irrigation runoff compared with the single-buffer strategy. The multiple-barrier strategy reduced P loss by 11% in natural rainfall runoff and by 14 % in irrigation runoff compared with the single-buffer strategy." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 14 |
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| See Also: | See also related article, "Mowing roughs to minimize runoff" USGA Green Section Record January/February, 2006 Vol. 44 No. 1, R=109050 R=109050 |
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| See Also: | Other items relating to: Buffer Zones |
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| See Also: | Other Reports from this USGA research project: 2000-12-179 |
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| Note: | Summary as abstract
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Bell, G., and J. Moss. 2005. Managing golf course roughs to reduce runoff. USGA Turfgrass Environ. Res. Online. 4(12):p. 1-9. |
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