Published online 20 November 2007
Published in Vadose Zone J 6:823-840 (2007)
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2007.0026
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Wastewater Irrigation: The State of Play
Andrew J. Hamiltona,*,
Frank Stagnittib,
Xianzhe Xiongb,e,
Simone L. Kreidlc,
Kurt K. Benked and
Peta Maherb
a School of Resource Management, Faculty of Land and Food Resources, Univ. of Melbourne, 500 Yarra Blvd., Richmond, Victoria 3121, Australia
b School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin Univ., P.O. Box 423, Warrnambool, Victoria 3280, Australia
c Dep. of Primary Industries, Private Bag 15, Ferntree Gully Delivery Centre, Victoria 3156, Australia
d Primary Industries Research Victoria–Parkville Centre, Dep. of Primary Industries, P.O. Box 4166, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
e additional address: Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, Liaoning Province, PRC

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FIG. 1. Salt, soil structure, and solute transport interactions in relation to crop productivity and potential environmental impacts. Developed from the model of So and Aylmore (1993) and reprinted with permission from Maher et al. (2004).
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FIG. 2. Heavy metal concentrations in Western Treatment Plant soils as a function of the length of time of sewage irrigation. Note that ordinate scale needs to be divided by 100 to obtain Cd concentrations in milligrams per kilogram. After Xiong et al. (2001).
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