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Animal Agriculture and Water Resources in Texas
Ned Meister Director of Commodity and
Regulatory Activities Texas Farm Bureau
Steel Maloney Principal Hydrologist
Cascade Earth Sciences
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Overview of the Issue
• Urbanization of rural areas has increased contact with agricultural operations
• Increasing demands on water resources requires management to protect water quality
• Concerns over water quality impacts from animal agriculture (dairies) need to be addressed in Texas
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Overview of the Issue
• Dairy industry is a major economic engine– Employment
– Local turnover of dollars– Dairy service companies– Regional agriculture
• Need a solution to maintain a healthy dairy industry
• Municipal water needs– Increasing population base– Water treatment cost– Public concern about water quality
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Role of Texas Farm Bureau
• General Farm Organization that promotes agriculture based on policy determined by members through a grass roots process– Organization’s corporate office in Waco,
TX– Interest in water quality same as
municipal users– Seek economically viable solutions to
reduce agricultural impact– Facilitate efforts among basin interests
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TFB View of the Issue
• Water quality is important to agriculture and to municipal interests
• A viable dairy industry is important for the economic well being of other Central Texas agriculture
• Technology is available to address dairy waste management
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TFB View of the Solution
• TFB Initiated Model Dairy Waste Project
– Grant from Philip Morris Co.
– Selected Dairy Cooperator– Contracted with Cascade Earth Sciences to design and
construct project– Invited participation by the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality– Ask for and received support from community
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Why are there Concerns
• Animal Agriculture concentrates production in a restricted area
• Produced wastes that exceed the carrying capacity of production area
• Without on-site treatment or expanded area to manage produced wastes, impacts to water quality can occur
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What are the Potential WQ Impacts• Soil erosion• Storm water runoff with elevated
levels of nutrients• Leached nutrients to groundwater• Direct surface water discharge
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Proven Watershed Solutions Exist
• Understanding and utilizing the natural buffering ability of soil and vegetation
• Public policy development based on science, not fears and politics alone
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Utilizing Mother Nature to Protect WQ• Land application is the most common
and proven method for animal waste management
• Utilizes the natural treatment and buffering abilities of soil and vegetation
• Is as old as mother nature with thousands of existing systems
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Why On-Site Waste Management Makes Sense
• Wastewater reuse reduces fresh water demands
• Reuse of nutrients conserves resources and reduces costs
• It is the “green solution”• Conserves power and fuel
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How Land Application Works
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If Land Application is So Great Why Are There WQ Problems?
• Soil and vegetation have a limited recycling capacity
• Few systems match site recycling capacity to application rates
• “Process looks so simple I do not need a professional”
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Model Dairy Waste Project
• Bosque watershed has phosphorous WQ impacts
• Dairy waste is a potential source of phosphorous
• TFB has organized an effort to improve dairy waste management in Texas
• CES joined the effort and brings 25 years of land based waste management experience
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Objective
• Develop waste management system capable of:– Reducing the majority of phosphorous in
wastewater– Reducing odors from lagoons– Generating by-products for use by
operator and sale to third parties– Being economically viable for dairy
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Land Limiting Constituent (LLC)• Determining the site recycling
capacity (soil and vegetation) for various constituents of concerns:– Phosphorous– Nitrogen– Hydraulics– Salts– Other
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Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)
• Determining the maximum daily load a surface water body can carry without water quality impact
• The TMDL for the Bosque Watershed has determined that phosphorous is most limiting
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Balanced Solution
• Animal Ag (Dairy) = Produced Waste• Treatment System Capacity (TSC) =
– Produced waste - LLC – TMDL
• Example– (TSC) 250 lbs = 1000 lbs – 750 lbs – 0 lbs
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Approach to Solution
• Determine site recycling capacity (LLC) • Utilize existing infrastructure as much
as possible• Maximize on-site management of
waste• Design system that produces by-
products that are useable on and off site
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System Description
• Remove larger solids for composting• Digest wastewater in a manner that
produces phosphorous enriched biosolids and methane
• Recycle treated water back to barns for flushing
• Land apply excess water below LLC
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By-product Usage
• Compost – Mixed with peanut hulls “fiber” and used for cow bedding, land application and off-site sale
• Methane – Used for power generation and/or
on-site heating• Biosolids – Land applied on-site below
LLC or composted for off-site sale
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System Overview
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System Overview
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System Overview
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System Overview
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System Economics
• Goal is to not increase existing waste management cost
• Cash flow from by-products will off set new infrastructure cost
• New system will be less labor intensive
• Grant funds will be primarily used for monitoring and educational purposes
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Why Solution Makes Political, Agricultural and Economic Sense
• Partnership with TFB, TCEQ, and Operator to demonstrate solution
• Methods are proven in other applications• Approach allows operator to manage their
own facility and maximize use of by-products• By-products produced have value (power)• Provides an opportunity for the development
of a new service industry to manage systems
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Questions?
• For more information about the Model Dairy Waste Project Contact:– Ned Meister (254) 751-2457
– Steel Maloney (208) 233-5443• [email protected]