Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Shafiqur Rahman

Publications

• Research Article
  Performance Evaluation of Three Vegetative Filter Strip Designs for Controlling Feedlot Runoff Pollution
  Author(s): Atikur Rahman, Shafiqur Rahman and Md Saidul BorhanAtikur Rahman, Shafiqur Rahman and Md Saidul Borhan
  
  A vegetative filter strip (VFS) is designed to reduce transport of sediments and nutrients downstream mainly through settling, infiltration (into soil profile), adsorption (to soil and plant materials), and by plant uptake. However, the performance of a VFS greatly depends on a VFS design and climatic conditions of a region. In this paper, relative performance of three VFSs (hereafter Cass County-CC, Sargent County-SC, and Richland County-RC buffers) was evaluated and compared in the context of VFS design for feedlot runoff pollution control and management under agro-climatic condition of North Dakota. Buffer at CC feedlot was established with broadleaf or common cattail (Typha latifolia) grass filter, SC feedlot buffer had Garrison creeping foxtail (Alopecurus arundinaceus Poir.) and reed canary grass (Phalaris arundinaceus), and RC feedlot buffer had mixed grasses. Automatic sampler.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-784X.1000124

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