The Nitrogen Management Challenge Tristan Gillespie, EPA Region 2

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The Nitrogen Management ChallengeTristan
Gillespie, EPA Region 2
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How did EPA get involved in golf courses?

• What is the National Estuary Program?
• Why all the fuss about Nitrogen?
• Why pick on the golf courses?
• What is the Nitrogen Mgmt Challenge?
• Who cares?
• How can I take the Challenge?

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Estuaries in the Program
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Brown Tide

• First appeared in 1985
• Recurring problem
• Ecosystem impacts
• Bay scallops, eelgrass, and perhaps finfish and
  other shellfish
• Not harmful to humans
• Has adversely
  impacted the economy and aesthetics
• Cause(s) are unknown

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Comparative Nitrogen Impacts
DU Dwelling Unit Ac Acre GW
groundwater
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What is the Nitrogen Management Challenge?

• East End Golf Course Superintendents
• United States Golf Association (USGA)
• Cornell University
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 2
• New York Department of Environmental Conservation
• Suffolk County Health Department
• Peconic Estuary Program Citizens Advisory
  Committee

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Southampton, New YorkJune 17 - 20 , 2004
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• Long Island East End/Peconic Estuary Program
• Golf Course Nitrogen Challenge
• Annual Report for Year __________
• All information provided will remain confidential
  and only composite summary information will be
  made public.
• Name _____________________________ Address
  _____________________________ _
• ______________ ____________
• ________________________________
• Golf Course ________________________ Telephone
  
• Area of turf fertilized (acres or 1,000 sq. ft.)
  for
• Greens __________________ Tees ________________
  Fairways ________________
• Primary rough _____________________ Other
  _______________________________
• Amount of fertilizer nitrogen applied (pounds per
  1,000 sq. ft.)
• Greens __________________ Tees ________________
  Fairways ________________
• Primary rough _________________ Secondary rough
  __________________________
• Amount (gallons) of irrigation water applied
• Amount (inches) of natural precipitation
  received
• Please list any nitrogen management changes made
  this year.
• Please attach water test results taken during the
  year.
• Please return this form to

Fertilizer Type Application To convert P2O5
to P, multiply by 0.44 to convert K2O to K,
multiply by 0.83. granular broadcast liquid spoon
feeding slow release foliar feeding n
atural organic fertigation synthetic
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FERTILIZER APPLICATION RECORD FOR YEAR
________ Golf Course ________________ Turf Area
_______________ Total Acres _______
Fertilizer Type Application To convert P2O5
to P, multiply by 0.44 to convert K2O to K,
multiply by 0.83. granular broadcast liquid spoon
feeding slow release foliar feeding n
atural organic fertigation synthetic
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Can I take the Challenge?
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Can I take the Challenge?

• Yes. Just contact me
• Gillespie.tristan_at_epa.gov
• [phone]
• More info http//www.epa.gov/Region2/nitrogen_ma
  nagement/index.html