Preventing soil erosion, surface runoff Date: May 20, 2015 Source: South Dakota State University Summary: The same spring rains that lessen producers' concerns about drought can also lead to soil ...

More than 90% of New Hampshire’s surface water quality impairments can be traced back to a single source: stormwater runoff. It’s not as attention-grabbing as long-lasting synthetic chemicals, man-mad ...

As a result, less water is pulled out of the soil. It remains wetter. Surface runoff is another mode of water movement. Wildfire can make the soil more vulnerable to this moisture loss.

More information: Boluwatife S. Olubusoye et al, Removal of microplastics from agricultural runoff using biochar: a column feasibility study, Frontiers in Environmental Science (2024). DOI: 10. ...

However, nitrogen leaving the soil—whether through leaching into the groundwater table, flowing with surface runoff into streams ... The water storage capacity of weathered bedrock is 4.7 times ...

But a new study released Wednesday by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency cited a growing threat from sediment and nitrogen from surface water runoff. "What we see in the condition of our ...