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Agricultural Waste

Factors that should be addressed in Agricultural Wastewater applications include operating temperature, applicable design configurations, corrosion considerations/ph/acidic levels, operating environment, materials of construction, codes, thermal expansion, chemical resistance, secondary containment and appropriate design standards.

The Agricultural Industry has two distinguished types of pollutants, depending on the type of agriculture produced on a specific farm, Nonpoint source pollution and Point source pollution.

Nonpoint Source Pollution from farms is caused by surface runoff from fields during rain storms. The types of Nonpoint Source Pollutions are sediment runoff, nutrient runoff and pesticides.

Sediment runoff is soil that has been washed off fields, depositing sediment in water bodies, which can inhibit growth of aquatic plants, clog fish gills and smother animal larvae.

Nutrient runoff is typically nitrogen and phosphorus pollutants through commercial fertilization, animal manure and municipal or industrial wastewater or sludge.

And Pesticides which may appear in surface water due to direct application (e.g. aerial spraying or broadcasting over water bodies), runoff during rain storms and aerial drift (from adjacent fields).

Point Source Pollution comes primarily from farms with large livestock and poultry operations, such as factory farms, can be a major source of point source wastewater. These pollutants are caused by animal waste, treatment, piggery waste, silage liquor, dairy farming waste, slaughtering waste, vegetable washing water and few firewater farms.

The constituents of animal wastewater typically contain strong organic content, much stronger than human sewage, high solids concentration, high nitrate and phosphorus content, antibiotics, synthetic hormones, often high concentrations of parasites and their eggs, spores of Cryptosporidum (a protozoan) resistant to drinking water treatment processes, spores of Giardia, and human pathogenic bacteria such as Brucella and Salmonella.

Animal slurries require special handling and are usually treated by containment in lagoons before disposal by spray or trickle application to grassland.

Piggery waste is comparable to other animal wastes except that many piggery wastes contain elevated levels of copper that can be toxic in the natural environment.

Fresh or wilted grass or other green crops can be made into the semi-fermented product called silage which can be stored and used as winter forage for cattle and sheep. The production of silage often involves the use of an acid conditioner such as sulfuric acid or formic acid. The process of silage making frequently produces a yellow-brown strongly smelling liquid which is very rich in simple sugars, alcohol, short-chain organic acids and silage conditioner. This liquor is one of the most polluting organic substances known.

Although milk has a deserved reputation as an important and valuable food product, its presence in wastewaters is highly polluting because of its organic strength, which can lead to very rapid de-oxygenation of receiving waters.

Washing of vegetables produces large volumes of water contaminated by soil and vegetable pieces.

And although few farms plan for fires, fires are nevertheless more common on farms than on many other industrial premises. Stores of pesticides, herbicides, fuel oil for farm machinery and fertilizers can all help promote fire and can all be present in environmentally lethal quantities in firewater from fire fighting at farms.

Agricultural Waste composting tank operations require management of agriculture waste according to terms and conditions of agricultural composting. The composting tank regulations apply when all the agricultural wastes are generated on-site and all finished compost is used on-site; when any agricultural wastes are generated offsite; and all finished compost is used on-site and total volume of material is limited to one thousand cubic yards on-site at any time.

The Agricultural Waste Compost Tanks must comply with the Federal Performance Standards of the owner or operator of all solid waste facilities, which reads:

(1) Design, construct, operate, and close all facilities in a manner that does not pose a threat to human health or the environment;
(2) Comply with water pollution control and implementing regulations;
(3) Conform to the approved local comprehensive solid waste management plan; Solid waste management -- Reduction and recycling, and/or the local hazardous waste management;
(4) Not cause any violation of emission standards or ambient air quality standards at the property boundary of any facility; and
(5) Comply with all applicable local, state, and federal laws and regulations.

Usage of Agricultural Waste Tanks, owners must:

1. Protect surface water and groundwater through the use of reasonable methods of prevention, control, and treatment as appropriate;
2. Control nuisance odors to prevent migration beyond property boundaries;
3. Manage the operation to prevent attraction of flies, rodents, and other vectors;
4. And follow all Federal, State and Municipality Laws and Regulations for Agricultural Waste Control.