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Nitrogen Fertilizer Loading to Groundwater in the Central Valley Thomas Harter University of California Davis [email protected] http:// groundwater.ucdavis.edu @wasserstille

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Nitrogen Fertilizer Loading to

Groundwater in the Central Valley

Thomas HarterUniversity of California Davis

[email protected]

http://groundwater.ucdavis.edu@wasserstille

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UC Davis Team

• Thomas Harter, PI

• Katherine Ransom, MS 2012, PhD 2017

• Giorgos Kourakos, Postdoc 2010-2015, Visiting Scientist 2015-2017

• Chris Henri, Postdoc 2016-current

• Mehrdad Bastani, PhD Student

• Shahar Baram, Postdoc, 2013-2016

• Matt Read, Field Technician

• Estathis Diamontopoulos, Project Scientist, 2016-2017

• Quinn Barber, Internship, Spring 2015

• Phillip Geier, Internship, Summer 2015

• Olin Applegate, BS 2011, MS Hydrology 2014

• Taryn Parson, MS Student

• Emily Kennedy, MS Student

• …..many undergraduate students for data entry jobs….

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Global Perspectives on Nitrogen Cycling: Watershed N Cycle

Billen et al., Royal Society 2013

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Nitrate Leaching to Groundwater: Europe & China

Gu et al, Glob Env Change 2013

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/Agri-environmental_indicator_-_nitrate_pollution_of_water

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California Nitrogen Assessment

(UC Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute, preview)

1.6 Tg 1.6 Tg

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Assessing Potential Nitrate-N Loading to Groundwater

Review of Literature & Scientific Reports

Nitrogen Mass Balance• County Level

• Field Scale (50 m x 50 m)

Method:• Identify average loading rate• Digitize applicable properties

into GIS map

Method:• Identify all nitrogen fluxes• Potential N Loading to

Groundwater = A-R• Digitize/map properties/fields

Landuses:• Urban

• Golf courses• Dairy corrals• Dairy lagoons

• WWTP perolation basins• FP percolation basins

Facilities/Landuses:• WWTP effluent land application• FP effluent land application

• Biosolids land application (TLB)• Dairy land application

• 58 crops (DWR categories)

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Animal Farming: Central Valley Trends

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Landuse

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Detailed Scene – Davis/Sacramento 2005

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Detailed Scene Visalia/Tulare: 1945 N Loading (All)

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Detailed Scene Visalia/Tulare: 2005 N Loading (All)

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Detailed Scene Visalia/Tulare: 2005 Fertilizer N

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Detailed Scene Visalia/Tulare: 2005 Harvest N

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Detailed Scene Visalia/Tulare: 2005 Dairy Manure Applied N

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Detailed Scene Visalia/Tulare: 2005 Dairy Manure Export Applied N

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Detailed Scene Visalia/Tulare: 2005 Septic Leachate N

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Potential Groundwater Nitrogen Loading, 2005

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Identifying Risks: Groundwater Nitrate Loading from Nitrogen Mass Balance

Meeting water quality standards would meancutting groundwater loading by 2/3 – 3/4

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Data from Harter & Lund, SBX2 1 Report, 2012 and ongoing research by Harter et al.

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Groundwater Nitrate: Section (1 mi2) Analysis

Geometric Mean Maximum

Geier, Barber, and Harter unpublished, 2015

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Nitrate: Impacted regions within the Central Valley

red dots: wells above MCL for nitrate

CVSALTS, Tasks 7 and 8 – Salt and Nitrate Analysis for the Central Valley FloorFinal Report, December 2013

Figure 7-14

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Regional Trend Monitoring:

Concentration,1940s - current

Geier, Barber, Ransom, Harter, 2015

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Regional Trend Analysis:Exceedance Probabilities, 1940s - Current

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Groundwater Nitrate Data: Basic Statistical Analysis of Spatial and Temporal Patterns

Geier, Barber, Ransom, Harter, 2015

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What does this tell us about historic nitrogen loading from various landuses?

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B) DeepA) ShallowCALIFORNIA

EXPLANATIONNitrate concentration

in groundwater,in milligrams per liter, as N

!( 0 to 2

!( >2 to 4

!( >4 to 6

!( >6 to 8

!( >8 to 10

!( >10

0 50 100 Miles

0 40 80 Kilometers

.

East Fans

West Fans

Basin

SacramentoValley

San JoaquinValley

&

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Estimated Nitrogen Loading at Time of Recharge[kg N/ha/yr]

(1970s –1990s)

By Crop / Landuse Type

Ransom et al., HESS (in review)

Tree FruitCitrus & Subtropical

Nuts

Natural Vegetation

Cotton Field Crops

Forage (no manure) CAFO

Rice

Forage (with manure)

Alfalfa/Pasture

GrapesPeri-Urban

Vegetables

Urban

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Comparison of N Loading to Groundwater, by Landuse

N Mass Balance Based Estimate

Groundwater Nitrate Based Estimate

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Ransom et al., WRR (submitted)

Bayesian Estimation

of Source Fractional

Contributions

Sources:• Synthetic fertilizer• Manure• Septic systems• Natural sources

Tracer:• Nitrate 15N• Nitrate 18O• Boron-11• Iodide

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Estimated Source Fraction – 95% Confidence Interval

Model produces a

probability

distribution of

fractional

contribution from

each source to

overall nitrate

value, for each

well.

Ransom et al., WRR (submitted)

Bayesian Estimation of Source Fractional Contributions

using Nitrate and Boron isotopes, Iodide

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Ransom et al., WRR (submitted)

Bayesian Estimation of Source Fractional Contributions

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Ransom et al., WRR (submitted)

Bayesian Estimation of Source Fractional Contributions

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Data Scouring to Understand Groundwater Nitrate

Ransom et al., STotEnv 2017

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Data Scouring to Understand Groundwater Nitrate

Ransom et al., STotEnv 2017

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Data Scouring to Understand Groundwater Nitrate

Ransom et al., STotEnv 2017

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Numerical Model: Capture Wells and Streams at High Resolution

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Aquifer Scale Analysis of NPS Pollution Impacts & Remediation

Kourakos & Harter, 2012, 2014, 2014

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