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Impact Report
| For plan | Identification and Management of New Mexico's Saline and Sodium Affected Soils |
| Date | December 22, 2009, 10:01 pm |
| For Objective | Long-term Show long-term objectives |
| Impact Report | Nutrient management workshop held in November, 2008, NRCS offices, Albuquerque, NM, where salinity sodium identification and management was presented to 20 NRCS personnel and 3 consultants. One study initiated by Dan Smeal San Juan County to look at reclamation of sodium affected soil with gypsum amendment from flue gas desulfurization process at local power plant. Growers in area have difficulty in applying enough water to land with adequate drainage to see an effect. In another project in Lea county, a local rancher contracted with an environmental consultant to reclaim a sodium affected area of rangeland from a brine water spill. The scope of the project was reduced after realizing that it would take natural rainfall to accomplish the goal of reducing the sodium levels. Hauling costs to bring in sufficient water to leach the soil was deemed inappropriate for rangeland preservation. |