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Klasa A. , Nogalska A. 2013. EFFECTS OF APPLICATION OF COMPOST PRODUCED FROM ORGANIC WASTES ON SOME SOIL PROPERTIES AND CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF LEACHATES, EJPAU 16(2), #09.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume16/issue2/abs-09.html

ABSTRACT

There is a report concerning effects of compost application on some basic soil properties as well as chemical composition of leaching waters examined in a lysimeter experiment. Compost samples were produced from municipal solid wastes of the industrial city of Katowice and of Suwałki city in a relatively unpolluted region of Poland north-eastern by Macrum-Dano technology and from sewage sludge from municipal water treatment plant in city of Zambrów by vermicomposting. Composts were mixed with Cambizols and leaching with distilled water started. Experiment lasted 128 days. Leachates were collected and analysed for concentration of nutrients. Comparison of physicochemical properties of the soil before and after leaching showed that pH values were increased and Hh values were reduced in the course of the experiment. Electroconductivity of soil were reduced particularly in Zambrów treatment. Among the studied macronutrients, magnesium content decreased in the most pronounced way whereas the increase of available phosphorus content was found. Nitrates were leached in a relatively short period and only content of NO₃-N in the first leachate from Zambrów treatment was higher than threshold values for drinking water.

Key words: MSW composts, vermicompost, leachates, soil properties.

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Andrzej Klasa
Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Environmental Protection,
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
Oczapowskiego 8, 10-744 Olsztyn, Poland
email: aklasa@uwm.edu.pl

Anna Nogalska
Department of Agricultural Chemistry and Environmental Protection,
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
Oczapowskiego 8, 10-744 Olsztyn, Poland
email: anna.nogalska@uwm.edu.pl

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