A field study to compare performance of stainless steel research monitoring wells with existing on-farm drinking water wells in measuring pesticide and nitrate concentrations

Chemosphere

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 875-889

  Smith, Charles N ^a   Payne Jr , William R ^a   Pope Jr , John D ^a   Winkie, Jonathan H ^a   Parrish, Rudolph S ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Ground water; Monitoring wells; Nitrate; Pesticides; Watershed; Well water

Indexed keywords

ALACHLOR; ATRAZINE; BUTYLATE; CARBARIL; CARBOFURAN; CHLOROTHALONIL; DRINKING WATER; FLUOMETURON; LINURON; METOLACHLOR; NITRATE; PESTICIDE; SIMAZINE; STAINLESS STEEL; WELL WATER;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POLLUTION CONTROL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER SUPPLY;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NITRATES; PESTICIDE RESIDUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STAINLESS STEEL; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0033081068     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-6535(98)00226-4     Document Type: Article

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