Apr 26, 2011
Since the 1960's HREC has maintained a unique research facility - a set of lysimeters. Each lysimeter consists of a steel tank, which is filled with soil, plumbed to collect all water draining out of that soil, and buried into a hill slope so that the soil within the tanks is similar in conditions to blocks of soil found in the natural system. This unique setup allows researchers to test how different treatments impact the loss of water, nutrients, pesticdes, etc., from ecosystems. This photo shows HREC's current 72-tank lysimeter facility, recently built by HREC staff with funds from the "National Research Initiative Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service".
