The phrase "nutrient runoff" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to refer to pollutants that enter bodies of water during rainstorms, due to fertilizer or other chemical sources used in nearby agriculture or land development. For example: "Projects to reduce the nutrient runoff into Lake Tahoe are ongoing."
Hayden plans to take the issue of nutrient runoff to Des Moines.
The settlement is the first time the agency has forced numeric limits on nutrient runoff on a state.
The city could improve water quality and reduce treatment costs by working with farmers on just 1,000 hectares to reduce field nutrient runoff.
Increasing sunlight, nutrient runoff from land and upwelling from the deep, and changeable atmospheric weather all conspire to colour the ocean surface with interesting patterns.
Reefs have long been under threat from destructive fishing practices, sediment and nutrient runoff, coral mining, reckless tourism and coastal development.
In addition, allowing animal waste to be spread on fields at rates higher than can be absorbed, resulting in nutrient runoff and oceanic dead zones, needs to be stopped.
According to the researchers, the results suggest that the increased rate of dissolved carbon dioxide is "a relatively recent phenomenon, and it is possible that these are caused by anthropogenically increased sediment and nutrient runoff".
Such a huge change in these marine environments close to shore favoured the growth of brown algae, which are feared to replace coral reefs in inshore areas for many decades because of increased nutrient runoff.
It is probable that they may record a combination of several stresses such as excessive sedimentation, rapid global warming or cooling, bolide (meteorite or comet) impacts, or massive nutrient runoff from the continents.
Nutrient runoff appears to be fueling the crown-of-thorns starfish boom: The authors note that these outbreaks occurred once in every 50 to 80 years before European agricultural runoff began.
United Suppliers said it would extend the reach of a program called Sustain, which is designed to reduce soil and nutrient runoff and climate emissions, to farmers who grow corn, soybeans, wheat and canola on 10m acres – more acreage than Walmart's better-known partners, like General Mills and Kellogg's, have pledged to better manage.
