2008 Joint Annual Meeting (5-9 Oct. 2008): Switchgrass Tolerance to Water Softener Brine: A Land Application Experiment.
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693-11 Switchgrass Tolerance to Water Softener Brine: A Land Application Experiment.



Tuesday, 7 October 2008
George R. Brown Convention Center, Exhibit Hall E
R. Scott Taylor, Jim Bradley, Lindsay Boring and Bob Mitchell, J. W. Jones Ecological Research Center @ Ichauway, Rt. 2 Box 2324, Hwy 91 S, Newton, GA 39870
Wastewaters are often laden with dissolved salts, metals and other compounds which cannot be disposed of through conventional septic or municipal water treatment systems. Few studies have directly tested the capacity perennial vegetation has to assimilate more than moderate amounts of Sodium and Calcium chlorides. Some anecdotal evidence suggests the potential of switchgrass to be tolerant of softener brine. If proven true this may alow for its use as a ground cover and biomass generator in a brine application system.
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