Table 6.
VFS | Grass species | Percentage soil cover (%) | Recovery in overland flow % of initial E. coli concentration in cowpat before overland flow experiment
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E. coli | OC | |||
I | Couch | 96.5 | 31 ± 6.2 | 34 ± 4.2 |
Buffer | 97.3 | 30 ± 1.4 | 38 ± 1.9 | |
II | Kikuyu | 97.5 | 7.4 ± 1.3 | 8.1 ± 8.1 |
Napier | 96.4 | 6.8 ± 3.6 | 9.8 ± 1.7 | |
III | Kikuyu | 97.5 | 8.2 ± 1.2 | 10.3 ± 6.3 |
Napier | 96.4 | 5.2 ± 7.0 | 7.3 ± 2.4 |