Houlbrooke (2010) Matching farm dairy effluent storage requirements and management practices to soil and landscape features [pdf, 1.2 MB]
...with soil and landscape risk 4 Report for Environment Waikato June 2010 1. Summary The impact of dairy farming on the aquatic environment has come under increasing scrutiny in recent times. It is widely believed that intensive dairy farming is responsible for accelerated contamination of waterways by nutrients, sediment and faecal micro- organisms. In particular, farm dairy effluent (FDE) is frequently implicated as a major contributor to the degradation of surface water quality. P...