From Golf to Gulf, Drainage Industry Greens

摘要

Washington, D.C. (January 13, 2009)--A new idea being explored for cleaning drainage water originating on and off golf courses is to attach a filter cartridge to drainage pipe and retention pond outlets to filter out pollutants before they reach streams. That's one approach being tested in an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) project bringing three industries together with agribusiness to clean drainage water before it contributes to water quality problems downstream, such as the Gulf of Mexico's"dead zone." The project participants are the turf industry, the drainage industry, and the industrial products/byproducts industry.