Road salt accumulation in highway snow banks and transport through the unsaturated zone of the Oak Ridges Moraine, southern Ontario

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1575-1589

  Labadia, C F ^a   Buttle, J M ^a  

^a TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Deicing; Groundwater recharge; Infiltration; Isotopic tracers; NaCl concentrations; Road salt; Salt accumulation; Snowmelt

Indexed keywords

QUERCUS;

HIGHWAY SNOW BANKS; ION CONCENTRATIONS; SALT ACCUMULATION; SNOW COVER; SNOWMELT; SOIL HORIZONS; SOUTHERN ONTARIO; UNSATURATED ZONE;

CLIMATOLOGY; GROUNDWATER; INFILTRATION; ION EXCHANGE; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); ROADS AND STREETS; RUNOFF; SALINE WATER; SNOW AND ICE REMOVAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOILS; VELOCITY;

HYDROLOGY;

GROUNDWATER RECHARGE; INFILTRATION; ROAD SALT; SALT ACCUMULATION; SNOWMELT RUNOFF;

CANADA, ONTARIO, OAK RIDGES MORAINE;

EID: 0030434228     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1085(199612)10:12<1575::aid-hyp502>3.0.co;2-1     Document Type: Article

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