Bimodal transport of a waste water plume injected into saline ground water of the Florida Keys

Ground Water

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 624-634

  Dillon, Kevin S ^a   Corbett, D Reide ^a   Chanton, Jeffrey P ^a   Burnett, William C ^a   Kump, Lee ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLORIDA; INJECTION WELLS; WASTEWATER PLUME INJECTION;

BUOYANCY; GROUNDWATER GEOCHEMISTRY; SALINE WATER; SEWAGE TREATMENT; TRACE ELEMENTS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; WATER ANALYSIS;

FLOW OF WATER;

FLOW PATTERN; GROUNDWATER; PLUME; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEWAGE DISPOSAL; TRACER; WASTEWATER;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034237568     PISSN: 0017467X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-6584.2000.tb00254.x     Document Type: Article

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