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Summary: A three-year field study was conducted to determine whether golf courses were a major cause of nitrogen pollution of ground and surface water in eastern North Carolina. At experimental sites on ten golf courses, intensive testing indicated that little inorganic nitrogen leached from the turfgrass system and the potential for water pollution was very low. [Editor’s Note: This research-study article originally ran in the May/June 2004 issue of North Carolina Turfgrass. The study’s results may be equally helpful, however, to golf course superintendents in Tennessee.]
By Thomas Rufty and Daniel Bowman, Crop Science Department, North Carolina State University
TENNESSEE TURFGRASS ASSOCIATION • TENNESSEE VALLEY SPORTS TURF MANAGERS ASSOCIATION
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