Alabama Water Quality Information System

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	1.-		Are animal waste lagoons deliberately designed to maximize the emission of ammonia into the air ?


	2.-		Are animal waste treatment lagoons the same as “cess pools”?


	3.-		Are manure lagoons and spray irrigation systems still the best technology for animal waste management on swine farms?


	4.-		Are the incidences of the protozoan parasites, giardia and cryptosporidium, in streams and surface waters always linked to the presence of livestock?


	5.-		Are there bacterial source tracking (BST) methodologies that rely on techniques other than DNA fingerprinting of fecal bacteria from different animals?


	6.-		Are there standards for discharge of wastewater effluent from concentrated aquaculture production (fish farming) operations?


	7.-		Are unpleasant odors from animal waste lagoons or storage tanks always associated with harmful health effects?


	8.-		Can municipal and industrial waste treatment lagoon technology simply be transferred off-the-shelf to the farm ?


	9.-		Can waste treatment and crop utilization of organic nutrients through land application of biosolids be regulated with exact science?


	10.-		Chicken litter is widely used as a soil amendment and as a source of nutrients for plants. Does this litter contain arsenic?


	11.-		Do animal waste or other wastewater lagoons ever leak?


	12.-		Do animal waste treatment processes cause organic matter and nutrients to disappear?


	13.-		Do emergency spillways in animal waste lagoon embankments encourage illegal discharges?


	14.-		Do soils in fields that have been amended with animal manure contain more antibiotics and more antibiotic resistant bacteria than those soils that have received no animal manures?


	15.-		Do wild animals contribute significant microbial contamination to our lakes and waterways?


	16.-		Does a farm with 10,000 hogs produce as much waste as a city of 40,000 people?


	17.-		Does manure nutrient surpluses greater than crop needs in specific geographical areas imply water quality or other environmental problems in those areas?


	18.-		Does the majority of potential odor from a hog farm originate during irrigation from a lagoon?


	19.-		Does the production of livestock contribute half of all ammonia emissions into the atmosphere as reported in some sources?


	20.-		Has technology for livestock production and animal waste treatment only been developed for the large contract farms while ignoring the small independent farms?


	21.-		Have animal waste treatment lagoon research and design criteria considered odor emissions and water quality ?


	22.-		Have gas emissions from livestock farms been proven to cause impacts on our environment?


	23.-		How can we prevent animal poisoning from blue-green algae blooms?


	24.-		How do I contact my CAFO permitting authority?


	25.-		How does E. coli or other fecal coliforms get in drinking water?


	26.-		How does EPA separate AFOs and CAFOs?


	27.-		How does the body waste generated by humans compare to that generated by domesticated animals that we typically grow out in concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs)?


	28.-		How much arsenic has been applied to the U.S. landscape on a yearly basis in broiler litter?


	29.-		How much arsenic is being added to chicken feed per year in the U.S?


	30.-		How much arsenic is there in poultry litter?

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This website was developed by the ACES Water Quality Team, under the leadership of Dr. James E. Hairston. It is funded, in part, by USDA-CSREES water quality grant support under Section 406 of the Agricultural Research, Extension and Education Reform Act of 1998.