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Dongqing Lin | ![]() | Measuring subsurface drainage flow in FAIRM field. | North Dakota | JPEG | 2.2 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Reservoir and control panel in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 471.3 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Irrigation system saturating crops and ground in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 270.9 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Irrigation sprinklers in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 599.2 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Pump equipment at drainage water recycling site in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 312.4 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of irrigation and crop fields in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 868.6 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Overhead irrigation and crop fields in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 608 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Overhead irrigation in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 691.9 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Overhead irrigation in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 609.5 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Control structure equipment and crop field in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 814.6 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Irrigation system saturating crops and ground in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 396.7 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Pump being turned on next to reservoir in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 662.5 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of reservoir and landscape in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 636.2 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of reservoir and landscape in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 457.1 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of reservoir and landscape in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 351.9 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Observation well by reservoir in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 352.2 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Reservoir and piping leading into the reservoir in Michigan. | Michigan | JPEG | 431.3 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Landscape with tile lines and reservoir in Michigan. | Michigan | JPEG | 411.5 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of reservoir in Michigan. | Michigan | JPEG | 427.4 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Tile lines and reservoir in Michigan. | Michigan | JPEG | 522.9 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Reservoir and bank in Michigan. | Michigan | .jpg | 532.5 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Landscape with tiled fields and reservoir in Michigan. | Michigan | .jpg | 8.3 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Newly installed reservoir in Michigan. | Michigan | .jpg | 8.9 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Tile lines and reservoir in Michigan. | Michigan | .jpg | 6.4 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of tile lines and reservoir in Michigan. | Michigan | .jpg | 8.3 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of newly installed tile lines, reservoir, and landscape in Michigan. | Michigan | .jpg | 7.6 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Pumping equipment next to reservoir in Minnesota. | Minnesota | .jpg | 650.4 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Reservoir in Minnesota. | Minnesota | .jpg | 339.6 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Reservoir in Minnesota. | Minnesota | .jpg | 237.5 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of reservoir and crop fields in Minnesota. | Minnesota | .jpg | 334.4 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Drainage water recycling pump equipment in Minnesota. | Minnesota | .jpg | 363.8 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Crop fields and reservoir in Minnesota. | Minnesota | .jpg | 240.8 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of reservoir and landscape in Minnesota. | Minnesota | .jpg | 1.2 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of crop fields and drainage water recycling instrumentation in Minnesota. | Minnesota | .jpg | 660.9 kb | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of crop fields and drainage water recycling in instrumentation in Minnesota. | Minnesota | .jpeg | 669.9 kb | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Lori Abendroth | ![]() | Monitoring sump where flow from individual subsurface drained plots is being monitored in Southeast Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 4.8 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Ben Reinhart | ![]() | Weather station and monitoring sump where flow from individual subsurface drained plots is being monitored in Southeast Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 7.6 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Distribution box and monitoring equipment used to measure the saturated buffer's performance. | Iowa | JPEG | 2.2 MB | Saturated Buffer, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Two years after installation at the Iowa site saturated buffer showing the top of distribution box and some of the monitoring equipment used to measure its performance. | Iowa | JPEG | 2.8 MB | Saturated Buffer, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Monitoring wells at saturated buffer in Iowa. Control box and datalogger in the distance. | Iowa | JPEG | 2.5 MB | Saturated Buffer, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Withdrawing and collecting a water sample from one of the observation wells at saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 2.8 MB | Saturated Buffer, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Monitoring wells and creek adjacent to saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 2.4 MB | Saturated Buffer, Outlets | Save |
Mark Tomer | ![]() | Iowa producers viewing installation of a blind inlet. | Iowa | JPEG | 3.7 MB | Saturated Buffer | Save |
Matt Helmers | ![]() | Wetland in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 2.8 MB | Treatment Wetland | Save |
Matt Helmers | ![]() | Drainage Monitoring in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 4 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Ben Reinhart | ![]() | Outlet to on-farm pond that collects drainage water for recycling in Michigan. | Michigan | JPEG | 7.2 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Tile Installation | Save |
Ben Reinhart | ![]() | On-farm pond that collects drainage water with water pump infrastructure in Michigan. | Michigan | JPEG | 7.8 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Ben Reinhart | ![]() | Outlet to on-farm pond that collects drainage water in Michigan. | Michigan | JPEG | 6.7 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Outlets | Save |
Ehsan Ghane | ![]() | Four-chamber control structure with anti-seep collar at Clayton, MI. | Michigan | JPEG | 4.1 MB | Saturated Buffer | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | External view of metering manhole for collecting drain flow and water quality samples from the drainage plots where supplemental irrigation is occurring using recycled drainage water in Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 12 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Background, on-farm pond holding recycled surface runoff and subsurface drainage water for supplemental on-surface drip irrigation in Minnesota. Foreground, is the water pump, and dual filtration systems for filtering water from the pond. | Minnesota | JPEG | 10.1 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Central data logger, antenna and solar panels linked to wireless infrared temperature (IRT) sensor network for leaf canopy temperature monitoring in Minnesota. These sensors measure leaf temperature which provides an indication of plant stress from soil water deficit, or high ambient temperatures. | Minnesota | JPEG | 6.8 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Supplemental on-surface drip irrigation manifold in Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 8.5 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Supplemental on-surface drip irrigation manifold in Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 9.8 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Jeppe Kjaersgaard | ![]() | Drainage demonstration in Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 541 KB | Tile Installation, Other | Save |
Ryan Lemickson; Minnesota Department of Agriculture. | ![]() | Combine and grain cart framed by monitoring equipment and a water control structure for a saturated buffer in Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 3.9 MB | Saturated Buffer, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Jeppe Kjaersgaard | ![]() | Round drainage water control structure with anti-seep collar in Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 4.2 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jeppe Kjaersgaard | ![]() | 12-inch main line installation using a wheel trencher in Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 4.9 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jeppe Kjaersgaard | ![]() | Anti-seep collar installed on tile line by a water control structure in Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 4.3 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jeppe Kjaersgaard | ![]() | Tile plow installing an 8-inch line in Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 5.5 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jeppe Kjaersgaard | ![]() | Pipe trencher during installation with the boot in the ground in Northern Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 4.6 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Installation of perforated plastic pipe by Land Improvement Contractors in claypan soils during the Conservation Showcase Field Day 2017 in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 8.7 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Drainage pipe installation at the Missouri Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 6.9 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Port Industries Hydramaxx Vplow installing subsurface drainage pipe at the Missouri Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 5.2 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Water gate and seep collar installation at the Missouri Conservation Showcase in 2017. | Missouri | JPEG | 5.4 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Water level control structure and seep collar installation at the Missouri Conservation Showcase in 2017. | Missouri | JPEG | 8.3 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Installation of the main line supplying water to the bioreactor and saturated buffer edge-of-field practices at the Missouri Conservation Showcase in 2017. | Missouri | JPEG | 4.7 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Construction of a bioreactor and the control structure needed to maintain the water level in the bioreactor at the Missouri Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 6.1 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Left ear of corn from drought and right subirrigated in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 111 KB | Other | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Pump and suction lines in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 269 KB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Claypan soil water management issues in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 5 MB | Need for Drainage | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Missouri Land Improvement Contractors installing the drainage water recycling wet well at the Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 4.1 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Missouri Land Improvement Contractors installing the spillway pipe for the drainage water recycling reservoir at the Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 6 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Installation of the wet well base at the Missouri Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 4.5 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Xinhua Jia | ![]() | Wireless weather system set up in the controlled drainage and subirrigation field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 695 KB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Xinhua Jia | ![]() | Flow meter, control valves, pipes, and the storage tank of the irrigation system in the controlled drainage and subirrigation field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 1 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Xinhua Jia | ![]() | Eddy Covariance system checked and data downloaded in the controlled drainage and subirrigation field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 284 KB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Eddy Covariance system in the controlled drainage and subirrigation field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 7.8 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Part of the Energy Balance Bowen Ratio system in the controlled and subirrigation field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 6.5 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Eddy Covariance system in the controlled drainage and subirrigation field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 6.9 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Control system for east part of the controlled drainage and subirrigation field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 8.4 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Part of Eddy Covariance system in the controlled drainage and subirrigation field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 5.2 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | The Q-7.1 Net Ratiometer in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 5.4 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | The HOBO water level logger at one of the surface runoff outlets in North Dakota controlled drainage with subirrigation field. | North Dakota | JPEG | 5.4 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | The HOBO EC logger in one of the control structures in North Dakota controlled drainage with subirrigation field. | North Dakota | JPEG | 3.5 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | The HOBO water logger in one of the control structures in North Dakota controlled drainage with subirrigation field. | North Dakota | JPEG | 3.9 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | A field tour at the control structures in North Dakota controlled drainage with subirrigation field. | North Dakota | JPEG | 8.4 MB | Controlled Drainage, Other | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Irrigation pipes to different field sections in North Dakota controlled drainage with subirrigation field. | North Dakota | JPEG | 10.6 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Pond and instrumentation for saturated buffer in Ohio. | Ohio | JPEG | 4.6 MB | Saturated Buffer, Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Pond and outlet in Ohio. | Ohio | JPEG | 5.6 MB | Saturated Buffer, Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Instrumentation check in Ohio. | Ohio | JPEG | 2.7 MB | Saturated Buffer, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Tile installation - feeding tubing into the boot in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 7.6 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Plowing in tile, with leveler in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 7.6 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Backhoe preparing the pit for drain installation in Indiana. Carrying tile probe to locate main. | Indiana | JPEG | 7 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Tile drain flowing in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 7.9 MB | Outlets | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Tile drain flowing in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 7.2 MB | Outlets | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Sampling pit, weather station, data logger, box with sampler to measure controlled drainage in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 1.4 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Wet field and drainage instrumentation in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 4.5 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation, Need for Drainage | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Wet field in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 1.9 MB | Need for Drainage | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Water table monitoring well and soil moisture measurement in the field in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 778 KB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Installing a control structure in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 2.9 MB | Controlled Drainage | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Tile outlet with animal guard in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 3.5 MB | Outlets | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Backhoe preparing the pit for drain installation in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 5 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Backhoe preparing the pit for drain installation in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 4.8 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Drilling into the main to attach the lateral in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 8.5 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Drain plow in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 8.2 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Finished installation in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 7.7 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Control Structure in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 1.3 MB | Controlled Drainage | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Drain piping in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 768 KB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Installing a control structure in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 401 KB | Controlled Drainage | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Installing a control structure in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 742 KB | Controlled Drainage | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Flooded cornfield and drainage instrumentation in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 3.4 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation, Need for Drainage | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Measuring water table at controlled drainage site in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 751 KB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Data logger and precipitation gauge at controlled drainage site in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 519 KB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Drain tiling equipment at DPAC site in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 350 KB | Tile Installation | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Three chamber control structure, pipe connections, anti-seep collars, and bioreactor in South Dakota | South Dakota | JPEG | 3.3 MB | Bioreactor | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Drainage main installation in South Dakota | South Dakota | JPEG | 3.9 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Removing clay tile for connection for drainage system installation in South Dakota | South Dakota | JPEG | 5 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Controlled drainage outlet raised after harvest to reduce nitrate delivery. | JPEG | 1.8 MB | Controlled Drainage, Outlets | Save | |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Controlled drainage outlet lowered a few weeks before planting and harvest to allow the field to drain more fully. | JPEG | 1.8 MB | Controlled Drainage, Outlets | Save | |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Controlled drainage outlet raised after planting to potentially store water for crops. | JPEG | 1.6 MB | Controlled Drainage, Outlets | Save | |
Ehsan Ghane | ![]() | Two-stage ditch at Clayton, MI. | Michigan | JPEG | 7 MB | Outlets | Save |
Ehsan Ghane | ![]() | Flooding event at outlet (24 mm precipitation) in Clayton, MI. | Michigan | JPEG | 7.4 MB | Outlets | Save |
Ben Reinhart | ![]() | Rain gauge and monitoring sump where flow from individual subsurface drained plots is being monitored in Southeast Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 7.2 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | V-notched weir closeup in the control structure in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 1 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | V-shaped weir and control structure in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 1.1 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Reservoir construction at the Missouri Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 4.9 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Wet well installation overview at the Missouri Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 3.7 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Xinhua Jia | ![]() | Subsurface drainage outlet with flow meter on the left and surface runoff outlet on the right of the conventional drainage field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 267 KB | Outlets | Save |
Xinhua Jia | ![]() | Soybean samples taken for the yield estimation in the undrained field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 1.2 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Plowing in tile in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 7.1 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Inlet manifold (before levelling) for a bioreactor installation in South Dakota | South Dakota | JPEG | 2.9 MB | Bioreactor | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Drainage main installation in South Dakota | South Dakota | JPEG | 3.3 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Drainage installation in South Dakota | South Dakota | JPEG | 4.6 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Electromagnetic flow monitor signal converter and automatic sampler in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 197 KB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Drain plow in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 469 KB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Finished installation in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 796 KB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Drain plow in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 1.9 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Installing a control structure in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 923 KB | Controlled Drainage | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Seep collar installation for the saturated buffer at the Missouri Conservation Showcase Field Day in 2017. | Missouri | JPEG | 4.9 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Ben Reinhart | ![]() | Soil moisture sensor for measuring soil water content in drainage plots in Southeast Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 7.8 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Jessica Veenstra | ![]() | Back filling the control box installed at saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 2.9 MB | Saturated Buffer, Tile Installation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Inserting one of the pressure transducers used to measure water depth above the v-notch weirs in the control box at saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 2.5 MB | Saturated Buffer, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Distribution box while collecting hand-measured flow rates at saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 2.1 MB | Saturated Buffer, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Lori Abendroth | ![]() | Water sampling equipment at the drainage water recycling site in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 5.8 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Irrigation storage tank with pipes to different field sections in North Dakota controlled drainage with subirrigation field. | North Dakota | JPEG | 11.2 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Sampling equipment structure with camera in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 1.7 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Monitoring sump and control structure at controlled drainage facility in Southeast Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 4.9 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Lori Abendroth | ![]() | Weir box for monitoring drain flow from controlled drainage research facility in Southeast Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 3.6 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Ben Reinhart | ![]() | Monitoring well for measuring depth to groundwater in drainage plots in Southeast Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 7.8 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Jessica Veenstra | ![]() | Control box installation at saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 2.4 MB | Saturated Buffer, Tile Installation | Save |
Jessica Veenstra | ![]() | Distribution pipe installation at saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 4 MB | Saturated Buffer, Tile Installation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Monitoring wells and piezometers installed in the buffer to measure the performance of a saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 3.1 MB | Saturated Buffer, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Field tile outlet to the creek at the experimental saturated buffer in Iowa. The eroding stream bank would normally preclude a saturated buffer at this location because of possible decreased bank stability. | Iowa | JPEG | 3.2 MB | Saturated Buffer, Outlets | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Top view looking into the 4-chamber control box at the Iowa site saturated buffer. | Iowa | JPEG | 1.8 MB | Saturated Buffer, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Lori Abendroth | ![]() | Distribution box and monitoring equipment used to measure saturated buffer performance in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 5.7 MB | Saturated Buffer, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Lori Abendroth | ![]() | Water quality sampling well at saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 5.3 MB | Saturated Buffer, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Creek adjacent to saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 3.1 MB | Saturated Buffer, Outlets | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Control box and datalogger following heavy rains and surface runoff at saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 2.9 MB | Treatment Wetland, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Mark Tomer | ![]() | Paired comparison of surface inlets protected by filter sock. | Iowa | JPEG | 5.6 MB | Saturated Buffer | Save |
Matt Helmers | ![]() | Wetland in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 3.3 MB | Treatment Wetland | Save |
Ben Reinhart | ![]() | On-farm pond that collects drainage water for recycling in Michigan. | Michigan | JPEG | 9.2 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Ben Reinhart | ![]() | Water outlet and lift station for drainage water recycling in Michigan. | Michigan | JPEG | 7.4 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Outlets | Save |
Ehsan Ghane | ![]() | Drainage water recycling reservoir. | Michigan | JPEG | 3.4 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Ehsan Ghane | ![]() | Drainage water recycling reservoir. | Michigan | JPEG | 5.1 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Ehsan Ghane | ![]() | Sampling instrumentation at Clayton, MI. At left is ATMOS-41 weather station, at second from left is a data logger, third from left (farthest in the photo) is a ditch water-level sensor and data logger, in the middle is white equipment shelter and propane tank, at right is a solar panel and four-chamber control structure. | Michigan | JPEG | 2.3 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Ehsan Ghane | ![]() | Area-Velocity sensor and spring ring being removed for cleaning sand because of sinkhole in the field at Palmyra, MI. | Michigan | JPEG | 6.3 mB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | On-farm pond holding recycled surface runoff and subsurface drainage water for supplemental on-surface drip irrigation in Minnesota. Flotation platform is used to suspend the water supply filter manifold. The filter manifold is in place to filter algae and other suspended particulates from the pond water. | Minnesota | JPEG | 10.7 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Other | Save |
Jeppe Kjaersgaard | ![]() | Soil profile in Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 635 KB | Treatment Wetland | Save |
Lori Abendroth | ![]() | Extension Field Day at the University of Minnesota with Dr. Jeff Strock and Dr. Dennis Todey discussing dissolved phosphorus research. | Minnesota | JPEG | 2.9 MB | Other | Save |
Jeppe Kjaersgaard | ![]() | Tee connection with lateral connecting to the main line in Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 5.7 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jeppe Kjaersgaard | ![]() | Drain pipe trencher with plow raised out of the ground in Northern Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 6.7 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Seep collar installation for a water level control structure. | Missouri | JPEG | 4.3 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Tile installation during Field Day 2017 in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 5.5 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Hydramaxx trenching the drainage water recycling water supply line at the Missouri Conservation Showcase in 2017. | Missouri | JPEG | 5 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Pond that collects drainage water while floating pump used for irrigating plots in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 5.7 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Other | Save |
Lori Abendroth | ![]() | Measuring irrigation water at a drainage water recycling site in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 9.4 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Lori Abendroth | ![]() | Pumping configuration in the wet well at a drainage water recycling site in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 4.7 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Non-drained corn samples in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 324 KB | Other | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Overhead irrigated corn samples in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 347 KB | Other | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Water table control structure in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 159 KB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | East tile water flowing and lake from ground level in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 129 KB | Outlets | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Subirrigation system in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 149 KB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Pump and pond in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 120 KB | Sampling and Instrumentation, Other | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Kelly Nelson looking at drainage water control structures in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 4.3 MB | Controlled Drainage | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Data recording device and water on field in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 1.5 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation, Need for Drainage | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Missouri Land Improvement Contractors installing the spillway pipe for the drainage water recycling reservoir at the Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 5.6 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Missouri Land Improvement Contractors installing the spillway pipe for the drainage water recycling reservoir at the Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 4.6 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Missouri Land Improvement Contractors arranging the spillway pipe for the drainage water recycling reservoir at the Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 5.7 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Missouri Land Improvement Contractors arranging the spillway pipe for the drainage water recycling reservoir at the Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 5.3 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Missouri Land Improvement Contractors placing the spillway pipe for the drainage water recycling reservoir at the Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 5.1 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Wet well after installation (top right) and inlet pipe (bottom left) for the wet well at the drainage water recycling reservoir at the Missouri Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 5.1 MB | Outlets | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Inlet pipe for the wet well. | Missouri | JPEG | 2.4 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Post construction survey of the banks of the reservoir. | Missouri | JPEG | 2.5 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | A bioreactor (left) and saturated buffer (right) installed at the Missouri Conservation Showcase in 2017. | Missouri | JPEG | 4 MB | Saturated Buffer, Bioreactor | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Wet well trench for the inlet and access during installation. | Missouri | JPEG | 5.5 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Wet well trench for the inlet and access during installation by the Missouri Land Improvement Contractors at the Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 5.2 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Lori Abendroth | ![]() | Water sampler placement allows cattle to graze cover crops during the winter months and measures flow throughout the year at a drainage water recycling site in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 11 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Drainage water outlet and pump in Missouri. Due to topography drainage water was pumped out from the field. | Missouri | JPEG | 6.3 MB | Controlled Drainage, Outlets | Save |
Xinhua Jia | ![]() | Tile line soil sampling conducted in the controlled drainage and subirrigation field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 882 KB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Xinhua Jia | ![]() | Water quality monitoring, (i.e., water depth, temperature, pH, EC, and turbidity) in the ditch of the controlled drainage and subirrigation field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 1.1 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | The control system for east part of the controlled drainage and subirrigation field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 9.2 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Monitoring system including a v-notch, a HOBO water level logger, and a time-lapse camera at one of the surface runoff outlets in North Dakota controlled drainage with subirrigation field. | North Dakota | JPEG | 8.2 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Plowing in tile in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 7.2 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Attaching a coupler to attach lateral to the main in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 1.1 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Backhoe preparing the pit for drain installation in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 885 KB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Tile drain flowing, Minnesota | Minnesota | JPEG | 4.3 MB | Outlets | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Tile plow installing tile in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 409 KB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Lateral attached to a tee in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 807 KB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Drain plow in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 7.5 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Tile plow installing tile in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 639 KB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Drain plow at DPAC site in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 239 KB | Tile Installation | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | New woodchips being installed as part of a bioreactor recharge in Iowa | Iowa | JPEG | 6 MB | Bioreactor | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Inline water control structure for saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 5.3 MB | Saturated Buffer | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Controlled drainage demonstration setup in Minnesota with two Agri Drain stop log water control structures with a Water Gate in between. | Minnesota | JPEG | 3.2 MB | Controlled Drainage | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Water flowing over stop log in water control structure | Minnesota | JPEG | 1.8 MB | Controlled Drainage | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Three chamber control structure, pipe connections, anti-seep collars for bioreactor in South Dakota | South Dakota | JPEG | 4 MB | Bioreactor | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Drainage installation in South Dakota | South Dakota | JPEG | 5.5 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Pre-fabricated lift station sump | JPEG | 3.1 MB | Tile Installation | Save | |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Pull type drainage plow | JPEG | 3.6 MB | Tile Installation | Save | |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Saturated soils and ponded water on field in South Dakota | South Dakota | JPEG | 2.6 MB | Need for Drainage | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Salt affected area of field in northeast South Dakota | South Dakota | JPEG | 4.2 MB | Need for Drainage | Save |
Ben Reinhart | ![]() | 2019 Transforming Drainage Annual Meeting Field Demonstration | Minnesota | JPEG | 4.7 MB | Other | Save |
Vinayak Shedekar | ![]() | 2019 Transforming Drainage Annual Meeting Field Demonstration | Minnesota | JPEG | 5.1 MB | Other | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Instrumentation at wetland in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 3.7 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Instrumentation at wetland in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 2.9 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Data logger and data transmission unit at controlled drainage facility in Southeast Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 2.8 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Matt Helmers | ![]() | Aerial view of controlled drainage research facility in Southeast Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 282 KB | Controlled Drainage, Drainage Designs | Save |
Matt Helmers | ![]() | Soil map and drain lines at controlled drainage research facility in Southeast Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 453 KB | Controlled Drainage, Drainage Designs | Save |
Ben Reinhart | ![]() | Site picture from research facility in Southeast Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 6.7 MB | Controlled Drainage | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Creek adjacent to saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 2.6 MB | Saturated Buffer, Outlets | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Monitoring wells and adjacent stream at saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 2.8 MB | Saturated Buffer, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Creek at saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 3.4 MB | Saturated Buffer, Treatment Wetland | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Water quality sampling well at saturated buffer in Iowa. | Iowa | JPEG | 3 MB | Saturated Buffer, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Ben Reinhart | ![]() | In background, on-farm pond for drainage water recycling. In foreground, water distribution pipe in Michigan. | Michigan | JPEG | 7.5 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Ben Reinhart | ![]() | In background, on-farm pond for drainage water recycling. In foreground, water pump infrastructure in Michigan. | Michigan | JPEG | 4.6 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Ehsan Ghane | ![]() | Algal bloom in ditch at Palmyra, MI. | Michigan | JPEG | 5.3 MB | Other | Save |
Ehsan Ghane | ![]() | Area-Velocity sensor mounted on spring ring in pipe at Clayton, MI. | Michigan | JPEG | 2.4 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Corn plot receiving supplemental irrigation through on surface drip irrigation from recycled drainage water in Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 8.1 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Water distribution pipes for supplemental on-surface drip irrigation manifold in Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 9.6 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Inside view of metering manhole for collecting drain flow and water quality samples from the drainage plots where supplemental irrigation is occurring using recycled drainage water in Minnesota. | Minnesota | JPEG | 7.4 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Jeppe Kjaersgaard | ![]() | Sump for a pumped outlet. Tile outlet is visible, the main tile is 12 inches diameter, but by the sump an 18-inch non-perforated line is used to increase water volume stored (reduces pump on-off cycles). Pump not yet installed. Sump is 12 feet deep. | JPEG | 4.2 MB | Outlets | Save | |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Drainage water recycling irrigation reservoir design at the MU/Mo LICA Conservation Showcase in 2017. | JPEG | 3.7 MB | Drainage Designs | Save | |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | New sump installed next to the pond in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 2.9 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Drainage Designs | Save |
Lori Abendroth | ![]() | Drainage water recycling in Missouri with a wet well and electric pump. | Missouri | JPEG | 9.2 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Other | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Tile line water level and soybean side view in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 1.8 MB | Treatment Wetland | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Drained strips at an angle in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 117 KB | Treatment Wetland | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Ripped ground and installation in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 118 KB | Tile Installation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Soybean drained plot in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 162 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Soybean nondrained control plot overhead in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 150 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Steve Sutter and rod in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 119 KB | Tile Installation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Water table control device with drop logs holding 18 inches of water in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 78 KB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Data-logger for recording transducer readings in Missouri. Transducer (not shown here) is installed in the control structure and measures the depth of drainage water, which is later used to estimate flow. | Missouri | JPEG | 4.1 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Dr. Pat Nash evaluating soil bulk density at a controlled drainage and enhanced efficiency fertilizer management site in Missouri | Missouri | JPEG | 5.1 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Wet well access structures prior to installation at the Missouri Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 4.9 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Adam Rosenfelder and Troy Chockley explain the geologic and hydrologic water budget considerations of the drainage water recycling reservoir at the Missouri Conservation Showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 3.7 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Reservoir at the Missouri Conservation showcase. | Missouri | JPEG | 132 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Conservation Showcase Reservoir 2019 in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 16.2 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Monitoring soil moisture sensors at a drainage water recycling site in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 5.9 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Lori Abendroth | ![]() | Water sampler placement allows cattle to graze cover crops during the winter months, avoids flood damage to the sampling equipment, and measures flow throughout the year at a drainage water recycling site in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 8.3 MB | Drainage Water Recycling, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Drainage water outlet in Missouri. | Missouri | JPEG | 6.1 MB | Controlled Drainage, Outlets | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Drainage water outlet and pump in Missouri. Due to topography drainage water was pumped out from the field. | Missouri | JPEG | 6.8 MB | Controlled Drainage, Outlets | Save |
Giorgi Chighladze | ![]() | Flow meter to monitor the subsurface drainage flow from the conventional drainage field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 11.8 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Xinhua Jia | ![]() | Upper part of observation well for monitoring water level adjusted in the field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 432 KB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Xinhua Jia | ![]() | Three drainage control structures constructed near the ditch of the controlled drainage and subirrigation field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 246 KB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Xinhua Jia | ![]() | Drainage flow outlet with a flow sensor installed in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 690 KB | Outlets | Save |
Xinhua Jia | ![]() | Part of the irrigation system in the ditch of the controlled drainage and subirrigation field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 370 KB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Xinhua Jia | ![]() | Irrigation system in a field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 231 KB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Xinhua Jia | ![]() | A water level logger with a V-notch set up for monitoring the surface runoff in the controlled drainage and subirrigation field in North Dakota. | North Dakota | JPEG | 978 KB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Dongqing Lin | ![]() | Buried observation wells in field before the harvesting. | North Dakota | JPEG | 1.1 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Dongqing Lin | ![]() | Flow in the drainage control structure. | JPEG | 4 MB | Controlled Drainage | Save | |
Dongqing Lin | ![]() | Soil sampling above drain tile in the FAIRM field. | JPEG | 1 MB | Controlled Drainage, Sampling and Instrumentation | Save | |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Backhoe preparing the pit for drain installation in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 1.8 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Encountering a clay tile in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 2.7 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Encountering a clay tile in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 913 KB | Tile Installation | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Field day at DPAC site in Indiana. | Indiana | JPEG | 423 KB | Tile Installation | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Old woodchips from recharge of 9-year old bioreactor in Iowa | Iowa | JPEG | 8.1 MB | Bioreactor | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Four chamber inline water control structure | JPEG | 2.7 MB | Bioreactor | Save | |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Self-propelled drainage plow installing drainage pipe in southeast South Dakota | South Dakota | JPEG | 4.1 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Drainage main installation in South Dakota | South Dakota | JPEG | 5.2 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Chris Hay | ![]() | Drainage outlet in South Dakota | South Dakota | JPEG | 3 MB | Outlets | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Control structure next to field footage. | Michigan | .mov | 685.9 MB | Sampling and Instrumentation | Save |
Dan Jaynes | ![]() | Video on Saturated Buffers and nutrient removal options. | Iowa | .wmv | 397 mb | Saturated Buffer, Other | Save |
Kelly Nelson | ![]() | Drone footage of Conservation Showcase Reservoir installation 2019. | Missouri | .mov | 37.5 mb | Saturated Buffer, Other | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Storing Drainage Water – A Win for Crop Production and Water Quality. | .mp4 | 24.9 mb | Other, Drainage Water Recycling | Save | |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of tile lines in Michigan. | Michigan | JPEG | 1.7 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Video of tile outlet moving water into drainage ditch in Indiana. | Indiana | .mp4 | 46.4 MB | Outlets | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Video of tile outlet moving water into drainage ditch in Indiana. | Indiana | .mp4 | 66.7 MB | Outlets | Save |
Jane Frankenberger | ![]() | Video of tile outlet moving water into drainage ditch in Indiana. | Indiana | .mp4 | 64.9 MB | Outlets | Save |
Logan Bishop | ![]() | Irrigation system running and crop fields. | Missouri | .mp4 | 234.5 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Logan Bishop | ![]() | Aerial view of tile installation worksite. | Missouri | .mp4 | 409.4 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Logan Bishop | ![]() | Aerial view of equipment moving rolled drainage pipes. | Missouri | .mp4 | 85.6 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Logan Bishop | ![]() | Tile line being dug. | Missouri | .mp4 | 265 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Logan Bishop | ![]() | Tile lines being dug and placing pipes in the trenches. | Missouri | .mp4 | 158.9 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Logan Bishop | ![]() | Tile lines being dug. | Missouri | .mp4 | 204 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Logan Bishop | ![]() | Tile lines being dug. | Missouri | .mp4 | 96.1 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Logan Bishop | ![]() | Aerial view of tile installation. | Missouri | .mp4 | 695 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Logan Bishop | ![]() | Hydramaxx 2700 digging a trench. | Missouri | .mp4 | 101.6 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Logan Bishop | ![]() | Aerial view of crop fields. | Missouri | .mp4 | 198.4 MB | Other | Save |
Logan Bishop | ![]() | Hydramaxx 2700 digging a trench. | Missouri | .mp4 | 66 MB | Tile Installation | Save |
Laura Christianson | ![]() | Typical two-stage ditch design, a specific type of alternative open ditch. | JPEG | 311.6 KB | 2 Stage Ditches | Save | |
Laura Christianson | ![]() | Drainage water management, also known as controlled drainage, uses control structures to retain drainage water in the soil during periods of the year when drainage is less critical. | JPEG | 433.2 KB | Controlled Drainage | Save | |
Laura Christianson | ![]() | Schematic of a drainage recycling system. | JPEG | 375.3 KB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save | |
Laura Christianson | ![]() | Drainage helps roots grow deeper, enabling them to withstand dry conditions later in the season. | JPEG | 156.9 KB | Need for Drainage | Save | |
Laura Christianson | ![]() | Nitrate inputs and outputs. This simplified nitrogen cycle shows how nitrate becomes available to be lost in subsurface drainage. Arrows show inputs (orange arrows), outputs to plants and the air (green arrows) and outputs to water (blue arrows). | JPEG | 173.4 KB | Need for Drainage | Save | |
Laura Christianson | ![]() | Generic components of the annual water balance for midwestern conditions. Evapotranspiration (orange line) exceeds precipitation (blue line) during the height of the growing season, but at other times, precipitation exceeds evapotranspiration, leading to excess soil water and drain flow (green line). | JPEG | 424.1 KB | Need for Drainage | Save | |
Laura Christianson | ![]() | Shallow drain placement removes less excess water than conventional drainage, but still meets crop growth needs. | JPEG | 705 KB | Need for Drainage | Save | |
Laura Christianson | ![]() | Subsurface drainage leaving the field and bypassing the existing vegetated riparian buffer. | JPEG | 545.8 KB | Saturated Buffer | Save | |
Laura Christianson | ![]() | A saturated buffer system where the drainage water is diverted through a perforated drain pipe to flow through the buffer’s soil. | JPEG | 539.1 KB | Saturated Buffer | Save | |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of reservoir and crop fields. | Missouri | .mp4 | 12.2 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Overhead view of reservoir and crop fields. | Missouri | .mp4 | 41.5 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Kelly Nelson measuring pipe and ground near corn stalks. | Missouri | .mp4 | 19.6 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of tile lines and reservoir. | Michigan | .mp4 | 11.7 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial over crop fields and reservoir. | Minnesota | .mp4 | 27.4 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Close view of overhead irrigation. | Missouri | .mp4 | 70.6 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial over crop fields and reservoir. | Minnesota | .mp4 | 27.4 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Close aerial view of tile lines. | Michigan | .mp4 | 84.3 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Pan up over the side of the bank with reservoir. | Michigan | .mp4 | 43 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of reservoir and landscape. | Minnesota | .mp4 | 29.5 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Close up view of pump equipment next to reservoir. | Missouri | .mp4 | 5.4 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of tile lines and reservoir. | Michigan | .mp4 | 28 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of landscape with tile lines and reservoir. | Michigan | .mp4 | 14.2 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Full view of reservoir and piping. | Michigan | .mp4 | 32.3 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Field level view of crops and the overhead irrigation system. | Minnesota | .mp4 | 6.2 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | Aerial view of crop fields and instrumentation. | Minnesota | .mp4 | 124.1 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |
Purdue University | ![]() | View over reservoir and crop fields. | Minnesota | .mp4 | 48.2 MB | Drainage Water Recycling | Save |