Modeling BMPs to optimize municipal wastewater land treatment system

Journal of Environmental Engineering

Volumn 124, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1178-1187

  Dukes, Michael D ^a   Ritter, William F ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATER LAND TREATMENT SYSTEMS;

CULTIVATION; LEACHING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN; WASTEWATER;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; NITRATE; NUTRIENT;

EID: 0032453514     PISSN: 07339372     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-9372(1998)124:12(1178)     Document Type: Article

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