A nitrogen-rich septage-effluent plume in a glacial aquifer, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, February 1990 through December 1992

US Geological Survey Water Supply Paper

Volumn 2456, Issue , 1996, Pages 1-83

  DeSimone, Leslie A ^a   Barlow, Paul M ^a   Howes, Brian L ^a  

^a NONE

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Indexed keywords

EFFLUENT PLUME; GLACIAL AQUIFER; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT;

USA, MASSACHUSETTS, CAPE COD;

EID: 0030432227     PISSN: 00831131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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