Nutrient Management: Municipal and Industrial By-Products

Cabrera, M.L., and J.T. Sims. 1999. Beneficial uses of poultry by-products: Challenges and opportunities. In J.F. Power and W. Dick (ed.) Beneficial uses of agricultural, municipal, and industrial by-products. Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI.

Elliott, H.A., J.R. Harris, K.R. Kephart, W.H. Mitchell, and W.F. Ritter. 1984. Guidelines for sludge utilization on agricultural land. Cooperative Extension Fact Sheet. University of Delaware.

Gangloff, W.J., M. Ghodrati, J.T. Sims, and B.L. Vasilas. 1997. Field study: Influence of fly ash on leachate composition in an excessively drained soil. Journal of Environmental Quality 26:714-723.

Gartley, K.L. 1996. Lead contamination of soils. Soil Testing Program Fact Sheet ST-06. University of Delaware.

Gartley, K.L. 1997. Managing lead contaminated soils. Soil Test Note 17. University of Delaware.

Ghodrati, M., J.T. Sims, and B.L. Vasilas. 1995. Evaluation of fly ash as a soil amendment for the Atlantic Coastal Plain: I: Soil hydraulic properties and elemental leaching. Journal of Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 81:349-361.

Ghodrati, M., J.T. Sims, B.L. Vasilas, and S.E. Hendricks. 1995. Enhancing the benefits of fly ash as a soil amendment by pre-leaching. Soil Science 158:244-252.

Glancey, J.L., and R.K. Adams. 1994. An applicator for side-dressing row crops with solid wastes. Part I: Machine development. American Society of Agricultural Engineers Paper No. 94-1593.

Glancey, J.L., and R.K. Adams. 1996. An applicator for side-dressing row crops with solid wastes. Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers 39(3):829-835.

Glancey, J.L., and A.E.M. Chirnside. 1995. An applicator for side-dressing row crops with solid wastes. Part II: Field evaluation. American Society of Agricultural Engineers Paper No. 95-2585.

Glancey, J.L., and S.C. Hoffman. 1994. Physical properties of solid waste materials. American Society of Agricultural Engineers Paper No. 94-1592.

Glancey, J.L., and S.C. Hoffman. 1996. Physical properties of solid waste materials. Applied Engineering in Agricultural 12(4):441-446.

Glancey, J.L., S. Seymour, C. Bohman, and J. Posselius. 1997. Development of a precision industrial spreader for the land application of soil wastes. American Society of Agricultural Engineers Paper No. 97-1081.

Malone, G., N. Gedamu, K. Lomax, and S. Chirnside. 1994. Use of fly-ash flowable fill as a nutrient barrier for poultry house floors. Report for Delmarva Power, Wilmington, DE.

O'Reilly, S.E., and J.T. Sims. 1995. Phosphorus sorption and desorption in fly ash amended soils. Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis 26:2983-2993.

Pill, W.G., G. Smith, J.J. Frett, and D. Devenney. 1994. Wildflower establishment in seedbeds created from an industrial co-product and co-composted municipal waste. Journal of Environmental Horticulture 12:193-197.

Ritter, W.F. 1989. Design of land treatment systems for food processing wastes. American Society of Agricultural Engineers Paper No. 89-6565.

Ritter, W.F. 1990. Land application of food processing residual wastes. In Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Food Processing Waste Management Conference, Hershey, PA. November 14-15, 1989.

Ritter, W.F. 1992. Organic wastes as fertilizers. Agricultural Engineering, May 17-19.

Ritter, W.F. 1992. Phosphorus as a limiting nutrient in manure and sludge land application. American Society of Agricultural Engineers Paper No. 92-2138.

Ritter, W.F. 1994. Planning industrial waste to complement soil improvement. International Journal of Environmentally Conscious Design and Manufacturing 3:19-26.

Sims, J.T. 1990. Nitrogen mineralization and elemental availability in co-composted sewage sludges. Journal of Environmental Quality 19:669-675.

Sims, J.T. 1992. Environmental management of phosphorus in agricultural and municipal wastes. In Future directions for agricultural phosphorus research. Bulletin Y-224. National Fertilizer and Environmental Research Center, Tennessee Valley Authority, Muscle Shoals, AL.

Sims, J.T. 1994. Organic wastes as alternative nitrogen sources. p. 487-535. In P.E. Bacon (ed.) Nitrogen fertilization and the environment. Marcel Dekker, NY.

Sims, J.T., and F.C. Boswell. 1980. The influence of organic wastes and inorganic nitrogen sources on soil nitrogen, yield and elemental composition of corn. Journal of Environmental Quality 9:512-518.

Sims, J.T., and J.S. Kline. 1991. Chemical fractionation and plant uptake of heavy metals in soils amended with composted sewage sludge. Journal of Environmental Quality 20:387-395.

Sims, J.T., and W.G. Pill. 1987. Composted sewage sludge and poultry manure as growth media amendments for tomato production. Journal of Applied Agricultural Research 2:158-163.

Sims, J.T., B.L. Vasilas, and M. Ghodrati. 1995. Evaluation of fly ash as a soil amendment for the Atlantic Coastal Plain: II: Soil chemical properties and plant growth. Journal of Water, Air, and Soil Pollution 81:363-372.

Sims, J.T., B.L. Vasilas, M. Ghodrati, and J. Bacher. 1995. Development and evaluation of management strategies for the use of coal ash as a soil amendment. In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Use and Management of Coal Combustion By-Products, American Coal Ash Association, Orlando, FL. January, 1995.

Sims, J.T., and G.M. Pierzynski. 1999. Assessing the impacts of agricultural, municipal, and industrial by-products on soil quality. In J.F. Power and W. Dick (ed.) Beneficial uses of agricultural, municipal, and industrial by-products. Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI.

Sims, J.T., N.J. Luka, and R.A. Eaton. 1999. Use of water treatment residuals to decrease the potential for nonpoint source pollution of phosphorus from manured soils of the Delmarva peninsula. Proceedings of the Water Environment Federation and American Water Works Association Joint Water Residuals and Biosolids Management Conference, Charlotte, NC. January 27-30, 1999.

Taylor, R.W., and R. Barczewski. 1994. Reed canarygrass for wastewater irrigation systems. Agronomy Facts #AF-9. College of Agricultural Sciences and Cooperative Extension. University of Delaware.

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