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File:Runoff of soil & fertilizer.jpg

Summary

Description
English: View of runoff, also called nonpoint source pollution, from a farm field in Iowa during a rain storm. Topsoil as well as farm fertilizers and other potential pollutants run off unprotected farm fields when heavy rains occur.
Deutsch: Wassererosion in Maisfeld
Date 1999
Source U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service
Author Lynn Betts

Photo no. NRCSIA99129

Licensing

Public domain This image is a work of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, part of the United States Department of Agriculture, taken or made as part of an employee's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain.
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