Purpose: The purpose of this practice is to improve water quality by reducing loading of nutrients, organics, pathogens, and other contaminants associated with animal manure and other wastes and wastewater by treating runoff from livestock holding areas with infiltration or treating wastewater with overland flow.
Conditions Where Practice Applies:
This practice applies where:
a. Where a treatment strip is a component of a planned
agricultural waste management system with lesss than 500
animal units.
b. Where a treatment strip can be constructed, operated, and
maintained without polluting air or water resources.
c. To the treatment of contaminated runoff from such areas
as feedlots, barnyards, and other livestock holding areas.
d. To the treatment of dilute wastewater such as milkhouse
effluent and silage leachate.
e. Where the waste treatment strip must have a stable outlet.
