wood waste utilization, biochar, and decreasing water and air pollution.

City aerial view

Urban Centers

Water Challenges:

  • • Stormwater runoff management
  • • High nitrate levels in waterways or groundwater
  • • Phosphorus pollution from urban sources

Wood Waste Sources:

  • • Urban tree maintenance debris
  • • Invasive species removal debris
  • • Park and public space maintenance

Agriculture

Water Challenges:

  • • Fertilizer nitrate leaching to groundwater
  • • Drainage discharge control
  • • Feedlot Manure reuse

Wood Waste Sources:

  • • Crop residue processing
  • • Forestry management
  • • Invasive species removal debris

Forestry

Water Challenges:

  • • Runoff from disturbed soils
  • • Nitrate leaching when root zones impaired
  • • Carbon/Nitrogen imbalance by forestry activities

Wood Waste Sources:

  • • Aging tree collapse by storms
  • • Forestry management
  • • Invasive species removal debris

Wastewater Treatment

Water Challenges:

  • • High nitrate in released water
  • • 2nd highest source of nutrient pollution after agriculture
  • • little land area available for conservation practices