Drainage Water Storage for Improved Resiliency and Environmental Performance of Agricultural Landscapes

Reinhart, Benjamin D.; Frankenberger, Jane; Abendroth, Lori; Ahiablame, Laurent; Bowling, L. C.; Brown, L. C.; Helmers, Matthew J.; Jaynes, Dan B.; Jia, Xinhua; Nelson, Kelly A.; Strock, Jeffrey S.; Youssef, Mohamed A.

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“…Users can identify separate areas to represent the drainage area contributing to the reservoir and the irrigated field area. Precompiled time-series datasets are also available for several research sites across the region as part of the USDA-NIFA-funded Transforming Drainage Project (Reinhart et al, 2016). This approach also provides a simple method for users to generate initial estimates with EDWRD for the purpose of learning more about DWR systems and their potential benefits.…”

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Development and Sensitivity Analysis of an Online Tool for Evaluating Drainage Water Recycling Decisions

Reinhart¹,

Frankenberger²,

Hay³

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HighlightsA modeling framework for drainage water recycling (DWR) was developed to estimate irrigation and water quality benefits.Global sensitivity analysis was used to identify most and least influential input parameters affecting model outputs.Parameters controlling total available water had the most influence on applied irrigation and captured tile drain flow.The modeling framework and sensitivity results were used to develop an open-source, online tool for evaluating DWR.Abstract. The U.S. Midwest is experiencing growth in both irrigation and subsurface (tile) drainage. Capturing, storing, and reusing tile drain water, a practice called drainage water recycling (DWR), represents a strategy for supporting supplemental irrigation while also reducing nutrient loads in tile-drained landscapes. This article describes the development and testing of an open-source online tool, Evaluating Drainage Water Recycling Decisions (EDWRD), which integrates soil and reservoir water balances for a tile-drained field and estimates potential benefits of DWR systems across multiple reservoir sizes. Irrigation benefits are quantified by applied irrigation and its relation to the irrigation demand, while water quality benefits are quantified by the amount and percentage of tile drain flow captured by the reservoir. Global sensitivity analysis identified input parameters affecting total available water as the most influential factors in estimating outputs. Initial and mid-season crop coefficients, irrigation management, and reservoir seepage rates were also influential. Curve number, fraction of wetted surface during irrigation, crop coefficients for the end of crop growth and frozen soil conditions, and the non-growing season residue amount were identified as low-sensitivity parameters. Results from the sensitivity analysis were used to prioritize and simplify user interaction with the tool. EDWRD represents the first open-source tool capable of evaluating DWR systems and can be used by multiple user groups to estimate the potential irrigation and water quality benefits of this innovative practice. Keywords: Drainage water recycling, Dual crop coefficient, Open-source model, Sensitivity analysis, Subsurface drainage, Supplemental irrigation.

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Development and Sensitivity Analysis of an Online Tool for Evaluating Drainage Water Recycling Decisions

Reinhart¹,

Frankenberger²,

Hay³

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“…This is a particularly important issue from the point of view of the environmental risk related to nitrate losses from agricultural sources. Several management practices have been developed to reduce the nitrate loading from artificially drained agricultural areas, including controlled drainage (CD), controlled tile drainage (CDT), drainage water management (DWM) [ 19 – 22 ], denitrifying bioreactors (DBR) [ 23 – 25 ], free water surface flow constructed wetlands (FWS) [ 26 – 28 ], saturated buffer zones (SBZ) and integrated buffer zones (IBZ) [ 29 – 31 ], and drainage water recycling [ 32 ].…”

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Effects of modelling studies on controlled drainage in agricultural land on reduction of outflow and nitrate losses–a meta-analysis

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A review with meta-analysis of outflow and nitrate loss reduction in controlled drainage (CD) vs conventional, free drainage (FD) was carried out in the study. Since the results of experimental field studies usually cover short periods of data collection, hence in this paper, meta-analyses were based on model studies that usually cover a longer time range. The databases Web of Science and Scopus were searched for eligible English articles, published until December 2020, that describe the quantity and quality of drainage water. The meta-analysis of outflow and nitrate loss reduction in CD vs FD using the mean difference (MD) with a confidence interval (CI) of 95%. The influence of each study was measured through heterogeneity, sensitivity analyses and publication bias using STATISTICA (version 13.3) for all analyses. Of the 107 works identified, 18 were finally included in the analysis based on established criteria required for an appropriate meta-analysis. In general the results indicate a reduction in average drainage outflow of 30.5% (MD = -71.26 mm; 95% CI, -103.49 –-39.04; p = 0.000) in arable land with CD in comparison to FD practice. In the case of nitrate load the reduction was 33.61% and in the drainage water there was lower content in CD practice by an average of 8.36 kg NO3 ha-1year-1 (95% CI, -9.93 –-6.79; p = 0.000). Subgroup analysis of two meta-analyses indicates that the results concerning these associations may vary with the calculated weight for each article, in which the number of years of study had the most significant impact.

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“…DWR is adaptable to many more situations and offers the potential for more complementary benefits. It is one of three practices, along with controlled drainage, studied for increasing storage for greater resiliency in the drained landscape as part of the Transforming Drainage project (Reinhart et al, 2016; https://transformingdrainage.org). Similar systems for capturing irrigation tailwater and surface runoff are increasingly being constructed in the Mid-South region of the U.S. (Czarnecki et al, 2017;Yaeger et al, 2018).…”

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“…A limited number of field research studies of DWR have established the promise of the practice for improved crop production and water quality. One of the more comprehensive studies in the eastern U.S. was conducted at three sites in Ohio (Allred et al, 2014), and data collected from these sites and data from new sites as part of, or related to, the Transforming Drainage project (Reinhart et al, 2016) are being used to further evaluate the practice. However, there are a number of remaining questions that need to be answered to support increased adoption of the practice.…”

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Frontier: Drainage Water Recycling in the Humid Regions of the U.S.: Challenges and Opportunities

Hay¹,

Reinhart²,

Frankenberger³

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HighlightsDrainage water recycling captures and stores agricultural drainage water for reuse as supplemental irrigation.Drainage water recycling can both increase crop production and benefit downstream water quality.Depending on management, drainage water recycling can also provide other complementary benefits.Research needs to advance drainage water recycling are presented and discussed. Keywords: Drainage water quality, Drainage water reuse, Subsurface drainage, Supplemental irrigation, Agricultural resiliency.

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Drainage Water Storage for Improved Resiliency and Environmental Performance of Agricultural Landscapes

Abstract: ABSTRACT. Drained lands, which include some of the most productive lands in the world

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Development and Sensitivity Analysis of an Online Tool for Evaluating Drainage Water Recycling Decisions

Development and Sensitivity Analysis of an Online Tool for Evaluating Drainage Water Recycling Decisions

Effects of modelling studies on controlled drainage in agricultural land on reduction of outflow and nitrate losses–a meta-analysis

Frontier: Drainage Water Recycling in the Humid Regions of the U.S.: Challenges and Opportunities

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