{"id":4537,"date":"2015-09-28T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T00:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=4537"},"modified":"2015-09-28T20:28:18","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T00:28:18","slug":"heavy-rain-this-winter-could-cause-overflow-problems-for-lagoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/09\/heavy-rain-this-winter-could-cause-overflow-problems-for-lagoons\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy rain this winter could cause overflow problems for lagoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the current El Ni\u00f1o, which is expected to last through the winter, heavy rain events of more than 2 inches in a day are twice as likely to occur\u00a0than usual in the Southeast, according to Florida State Climatologist David Zierden.\u00a0 You can read an article and watch a video about his outlook at <em>WXTL<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/weather\/local-scientists-say-heavy-rain-events-are-twice-as-likely\/article_3d3d3b64-5289-11e5-b3a2-abfc17ba6bfd.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the increased likelihood of heavy rains, it is especially important for farmers with manure storage structures and lagoons to pump down their levels before the rainy winter begins.\u00a0 Melony Wilson, UGA animal waste specialist says &#8220;Your goal should be to pump your lagoons down to the stop pumping level which you will find in your nutrient management plan, and waste storage structures should be near empty around this time of year.\u00a0 So as weather allows keep this information in mind.\u00a0 If a discharge does occur, remember you need to report the discharge to your local EPD office.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/zierden-interview.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4538\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/zierden-interview-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"zierden interview\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/zierden-interview.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/09\/zierden-interview-245x138.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because of the current El Ni\u00f1o, which is expected to last through the winter, heavy rain events of more than 2 inches in a day are twice as likely to occur\u00a0than usual in the Southeast, according to Florida State Climatologist David Zierden.\u00a0 You can read an article and watch a video about his outlook at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-extension-agent-outreach","category-livestock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4541,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions\/4541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}