Article Title
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1975
Keywords
Feedlots; Water quality; Bacterial pollution of water; Enterobacteriaceae
Abstract
The effect of feedlot runoff on water quality was examined. Samples were collected from river feedlots and offshore from lake feedlots and compared with samples from appropriate control sites. Bacterial contamination, as measured by the total coliform test over two successive summers, exhibited significant variation between feedlot and control sites. Coliform levels at lake sites adjacent to feedlots were double the levels at control sites; while in river systems average coliform levels downstream from feedlots were approximately 17 times the upstream controls.
First Page
30
Last Page
31
Recommended Citation
Cheetham, R. D.,
Holmes, A. J.,
&
Borresen, D.
(1975).
Effect of Feedlots on Water Quality.
Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science, Vol. 41 No.1, 30-31.
Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/jmas/vol41/iss1/10
Primo Type
Article