Definition of Waste treatment pond

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Waste treatment pond

The term 'Waste treatment pond ' as it applies to the area of agriculture can be defined as ' A shallow lagoon or similar storage facility, often man-made, used to treat liquid agricultural wastes, particularly liquid manure from livestock production farms, through the interaction of sunlight, wind, algae, and oxygen. Through natural biological processes, microscopic organisms consume wastes present in the water'.

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