If not carefully managed, dairy wash water can contaminate both surface water sources and groundwater, including drinking water. Contaminants include organic matter, nutrients, milk solids, chemicals, and microorganisms. This worksheet takes farmers step-by-step through their milking center wash water treatment practices to assess their risk of groundwater contamination. Includes glossary and ranking chart. Companion to EB1746, fact sheet 10. 8 pages.
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Title
Home-A-Syst
Creators
Washington State University Cooperative Extension (Author)
Academic Unit
Publications, WSU Extension
Series
Extension bulletin (Washington State University. Extension); EB1746-W10
Publisher
Washington State University Extension; Pullman, Washington
Identifiers
99900501716501842
Copyright
In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess