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Agricultural runoff damages water and kills wildlife. Is a drainage stopper the solution?
Drainage systems carry away excess water, but they also take fertilizers that can fuel harmful algal blooms. Researchers, companies, and farmers are deploying systems that can control that flow.
Agricultural runoff damages our water and kills wildlife. Could a simple drainage stopper be the solution?
The sight of the first snow on the horizon of Bill Wiley’s 500-acre farm in Shelby County, Ohio, is a welcome relief. The 2024 growing season has been incredibly dry.
“We are about eight inches behind regular precipitation for the year,” he said.
But Wiley, who farms corn, soybeans, wheat, pumpkins and gords, has installed two inline water control structures that control the flow of drainage water from two of his fields.
Letters to the Editor: October 24, 2024
Don’t stop trying Amsterdam, in the 1970s, was a car-dominant grid-locked city much like Toronto is and much like where London is headed. The notoriously inventive and cost-conscious Dutch retrofitted many of their cities in order to make them more efficient, less costly, and more habitable. To be fair, they did so through numerous urban […]
Letters to the Editor: October 16, 2024
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