Defining the Problem

Problem Statement:

Commercial fungicide can be harmful if it is left to leach into the soil and ground water of an agricultural field or local surface water. A source of this fungicide leaching can be the cleaning of equipment that is used to spray it on the crops. Our project is to design a best management practice that minimizes  the amount of concentrated fungicide rinsate from contaminating the local watershed.

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Goal:

To design a simple best management practice that together minimizes the ecological impact of the fungicide as well as makes the method of cleaning the equipment as simple as possible. 

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Objectives:

• Out of the fungicides used, determine which fungicides to design for based off of majority that can be treated.   

• Compile a list of BMPs that can retain the fungicides for the desired retention time. 

• After defining the most useful BMP to use, create a CAD design of the system. 

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