Effects of Rainfall, Slope, and Vegetation Height Onrunoff Water Quality from Fescue Plots Treated with Poultry Litter

Abstract

The design stonn selection procedures were developed to assist researchers in selecting storm events to apply in laboratory or field studies when one or more storm events are desired to use as treatment variables. Provided that sufficient rainfall data is available the researcher can use the methodology described in Chapter IV to derive equally probable storm events from a probabilistic analysis ofreal rainfall data. The goal of the laboratory study was to better evaluate management and environmental parameters that have the greatest effect on loss ofnutrients to surface water runoff Support for this research effort was provided by the Soil Conservation Service and the Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station. Without this greatly appreciated support a study ofthis magnitude would not have been possible.