227 Wastewater Reuse for Agriculture

Oral Session
S06 Soil & Water Management & Conservation
This topical session will focus on water reuse for agriculture. World-wide there are many locations experimenting with or already proceeding with water reuse projects, typically for irrigation of crops or landscapes with secondary or tertiary treated effluent. Concerns include eventual soil salinization or degradation with heavy metals or other contaminants, food safety (microbial, hormonal or other chemical contamination), and crop yields and quality among others. These topics and others concerning irrigation application methods and scheduling, filtration, mixing of treated water with other sources, irrigation of halophytic crops and related issues will be welcome.
Cosponsor(s):

A05 Environmental Quality, A06 International Agronomy

Tuesday, November 3, 2009: 12:55 PM-5:00 PM
Convention Center, Room 323, Third Floor

Presiding:
Steven Evett
Organizer:
Lawrence Parsons
12:55 PM
Introductory Remarks
1:00 PM
Water Reuse for Agriculture and Urban Areas in Florida.
Lawrence Parsons, Univ. of Florida, IFAS
1:15 PM
Water Repellency Induced by Organic Matter in Treated Wastewater Irrigation.
Itamar Nadav, Hebrew Univ. in Jerusalem, the Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment; Gorge Tarchitzky, Hebrew Univ. in Jerusalem, the Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment; Anat Lowengart-Aycicegi, Ext. Service, Ministry of Agriculture; Yona Chen, Hebrew Univ. in Jerusalem, the Faculty of Agriculture Food and Environment
1:30 PM
Concepts for Application and Utilization of CAFO Effluents with Subsurface Drip Irrigation.
Freddie Lamm, Kansas State Univ.; Todd Trooien, South Dakota State Univ.; Alan Schlegel, Kansas State Univ.
1:45 PM
Selenium Incorporation and Performance of Beef Cattle Grazing Pastures Irrigated with Saline-Sodic Drainage Water.
Sharon Benes, California State Univ.; Sergio O. Juchem, Univ. of California; Peter H. Robinson, Univ. of California; Stephen Grattan, Univ. of California, Davis; Pablo Chilibroste, Inst. Nacional de InvestigaciĆ³n AgropecuĆ”ria
2:00 PM
Long-Term Phosphorus Fertility in Wastewater Irrigated Cropland.
Deepak Jaiswal, Pennsylvania State Univ.; Herschel Elliott, Pennsylvania State Univ.
2:15 PM
Modification of Polymer Flocculants for the Removal of Phosphate From Water.
Timothy Goebel, Texas A&M Univ.; Kevin McInnes, Texas A&M Univ., Rangeland Ecology & Management; Robert Lascano, USDA-ARS, Cropping Systems Res. Lab.; Edon Vitaku, Idaho State University; Dr. Todd Davis, Idaho State Univ.
2:30 PM
Break
2:45 PM
The Pennsylvania State University's Wastewater Irrigation System: 30 Billion Gallons and Still Spraying.
Charles Walker, Pennsylvania State Univ.; John Watson, Pennsylvania State Univ.; Zachary Larson, Pennsylvania State Univ.; John Gaudlip, Pennsylvania State Univ.
3:00 PM
Concentration Dependent Sorption of Estrone to Soil.
John Watson, Pennsylvania State Univ.; Charles Walker, Pennsylvania State Univ.; Zachary Larson, Pennsylvania State Univ.
3:15 PM
The Effects of Long Term Wastewater Irrigation On Soil Physical Properites.
Zachary Larson, Pennsylvania State Univ.; Charles Walker, Pennsylvania State Univ.; John Watson, Pennsylvania State Univ.
3:30 PM
Assessing the Environmental Risk of Emerging Organic Contaminants in Fields Receiving Reclaimed Wastewater Irrigation.
Jian Xu, Univ. of California, Riverside; Laosheng Wu, Univ. of California, Riverside; Weiping Chen, Univ. of California, Riverside; Robert Green, Univ. of California, Riverside; Andrew Chang, Univ. of California, Riverside
4:00 PM
Combined Effects of SAR and pH On Infiltration.
Donald Suarez, U.S. Salinity Lab., USDA-ARS; Alberto Gonzalez-Rubio, Univ. of California, Riverside
4:30 PM
Discussion
4:45 PM
Adjourn