Assessing groundwater vulnerability to agrichemical contamination in the Midwest US

Water Science and Technology

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 103-112

  Burkart, Michael R ^a   Kolpin, Dana W ^b   James, David E ^a  

^a USDA ARS National Laboratory for Agriculture and the Environment   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Aquifers; GIS; Groundwater; Nitrate; Pesticides

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL DIFFUSE POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS; HERBICIDES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITRATES; STATISTICAL METHODS; WATER QUALITY;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; GROUND WATER; HERBICIDE; NITRATE;

WATER POLLUTION;

CLIMATE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GEOGRAPHY; LEACHING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 0032974834     PISSN: 02731223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1223(99)00042-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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