Preferential flow and transport of nitrate and bromide in claypan soil
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Abstract
The in situ measurement of water flow and chemical transport through clay pan soils is crucial to understanding potential water contamination from agricultural sources. It is important due to the large areal extent of these soils in agricultural regions of the midwestern United States and because of preferential flow paths caused by desiccation cracks, worms burrowing, and root development. A study plot at the Missouri Management Systems Evaluation Area near Centralia, Missouri, was instrumented to determine the rate of preferential flow of water and transport of NO3−1 fertilizer in the unsaturated zone through a claypan soil using 15N‐NO3−1 and Br‐1 tracers. The areal distribution of preferential flow paths was between 2 and 20% in the topsoil. Gravity lysimeter flow caused by preferential flow through the claypan was as much as 150 times greater than the estimated average rate of vertical recharge. As much as 2.4% of the volume of the soil below the clay pan may be occupied by preferential flow paths.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Preferential flow and transport of nitrate and bromide in claypan soil |
| Series title | Ground Water |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-6584.1998.tb02820.x |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Year Published | 1998 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Contributing office(s) | Toxic Substances Hydrology Program |
| Description | 11 p. |
| First page | 484 |
| Last page | 494 |
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