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Suspended Solids and Phosphorus Loads from a Clay Soil: II. Watershed Study¹

ABSTRACT

Clay soil are very important agriculturally in southwestern Ontario, and they constitute a large proportion of the Canadian Lake Erie drainage basin. Analysis of water quality and quality from a typical clay watershed indicated that estimates of suspended solids load varied substantially, depending on the calculation method; this was not the case for P. Effluent from subsurface drains was estimated to constitute about 60% of annual runoff from the watershed. About 32 and 18% of the suspended solids load was probably derived from bank erosion and subsurface drainage, respectively. Contribution of P from these sources was also substantial. Sediment delivery of eroded soil from cropland was estimated to be about 7% of the sheet and rill erosion rate.

Key Words: eutrophication • erosion • sediment

¹ Contribution no. 83-06 from Land Resource Research Institute, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6.

² Land Res. Res. Inst., Central Exp. Farm, Ottawa; and formerly of Res. Stn., Agriculture Canada, Harrow, Ontario, Canada NOR 1G0, now deceased.

Received for publication January 26, 1983.

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