What is the appropriate method for determining useable site acreage?
A. Determining the accurate acreage of a land application site is a critical component of accurately applying biosolids at the agronomic rate. Simply relying on the farmer’s estimate of acreage is not recommended as farmers will frequently over estimate and sometimes underestimate useable acreages. The DEQ suggests that land applying facilities or their land application contractor double check the farmer’s estimate of useable acreage with commonly available measurement tools such as a Global Positioning System or a computer-based mapping program. The NRCS offers a free Internet site that allows access to aerial photographs overlaying soils mapping program that includes a useful site measuring function. This site can be found at http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/. Q. When we are land applying biosolids for more than 2 days in a row, why are we required to collect daily biosolids samples for percent total solids even though we have a percent total solids value on the sample we analy
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