Groundwater flow and phosphate dynamics surrounding a high discharge wastewater disposal well in the Florida Keys

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 284, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 193-210

  Dillon, Kevin ^a   Burnett, William ^a   Kim, Guebuem ^a,c   Chanton, Jeffrey ^a   Corbett, D Reide ^a,d   Elliott, Katherine ^b,e   Kump, Lee ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e URS Greiner Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial groundwater tracers; Limestone; Nutrients; Phosphate; Phosphate adsorption; Radiolabelled phosphate; Sulfur hexafluoride

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; PHOSPHATES; RADIOACTIVE TRACERS; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL; WATER WELLS;

PHOSPHATE DYNAMICS; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL WELLS;

HYDROLOGY;

GROUNDWATER; LIMESTONE; PHOSPHATE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; POROSITY; TRACER; WASTEWATER;

GROUNDWATER FLOW; LIMESTONE; PHOSPHATE; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SECONDARY POROSITY; TRACER; WASTEWATER;

FLORIDA; FLORIDA KEYS; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346432381     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2003.08.001     Document Type: Article

References (39)

1. Bower, C.F., Holm-Hansen, T., 1980. A salicylate-hypoclorite method for determining ammonia in seawater. Canadian Journal of Aquatic Science 37, 794-798.
2. Braman, R.S., Hendrix, S.A., 1989. Nanogram nitrite and nitrate determination in environmental and biological materials by vanadium (III) reduction with chemiluminescence detection. Analytical Chemistry 61, 2715-2718.
3. Carignan, R., Vaithiyanathan, P., 1999. Phosphorus availability in the Parana floodplain lakes (Argentina): influence of pH and phosphate buffering by fluvial sediments. Limnology and Oceanography 44, 1540-1548.
4. Cole, C.V., Olsen, S.R., Scott, C.O., 1953. The nature of phosphate adsorption by calcium carbonate. Soil Science Society American Proceedings 17, 352-356.
5. Corbett, D.R., Kump, L.R., Dillon, K.S., Burnett, W.C., Chanton, J.P., 2000. Fate of wastewater-borne nutrients in the subsurface of the Florida Keys, USA. Marine Chemistry 69, 99-115.
6. Custodio, E., 1987. Salt-fresh water interrelationships under natural conditions. In: Custodio, E., Bruggeman, G.A. (Eds.), Groundwater Problems in Coastal Areas, UNESCO Studies and Reports in Hydrology 45, pp. 14-96.
7. De Kanel, J., Morse, J.W., 1978. The chemistry of orthophosphate uptake from seawater on to calcite and aragonite. Geochemica Cosmochemica Acta., 42, 1335-1340.
8. 6) as a tracer of septic tank effluent in the Florida Keys. Journal of Hydrology 220, 129-140.
9. Dillon, K.S., Corbett, D.R., Chanton, J.P., Burnett, W.C., Kump, L.R., 2000. Bimodal transport of a wastewater plume injected into saline groundwaters of the Florida Keys. Groundwater 38, 624-634.
10. Dodd, J.R., Siemers, C.T., 1971. Effect of Late Pleistocene karst topography on Holocene sedimentation and biota. Lower Florida Keys. Geological Society of America Bulletin 82, 211-218.
11. Elliott, K., 1999. The fate of wastewater phosphate in saline carbonate groundwater. Key Colony Beach, Florida. MS Thesis, The Pennsylvania State University.
12. Fourqurean, J.W., Robblee, M.B., 1999. Florida Bay: a history of recent ecological changes. Estuaries 22, 345-357.
13. Fourqurean, J.W., Zieman, J.C., Powell, G.V.N., 1992a. Relationships between porewater and seagrasses in a subtropical carbonate environment. Marine Biology 114, 57-65.
14. Fourqurean, J.W., Zieman, J.C., Powell, G.V.N., 1992b. Phosphorus limitation of primary production in Florida Bay-Evidence from C-N-P ratios of the dominant seagrass Thalassia-testudium. Limnology and Oceanography 37, 162-171.
15. Fourqurean, J.W., Jones, R.D., Zieman, J.C., 1993. Processes influencing water column characteristics and phosphorus limitation of phytoplankton biomass in Florida Bay, FL, USA: inferences from spatial distributions. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 36, 295-314.
16. Froelich, P.N., 1988. Kinetic controls of dissolved phosphate in natural rivers and estuaries: a primer on the phosphate buffer mechanism. Limnology and Oceanography 33, 649-668.
17. Frost, A.A., Pearson, R.G., 1961. Kinetics and Mechanism, second ed., Wiley, New York, 403 pp.
18. 2, and loading influence. Water Resources 33, 2437-2447.
19. Griffin, R.A., Jurinak, J.J., 1973. The interaction of phosphate with calcite. Soil Science Society American Proceedings 37, 846-850.
20. Halley, R.B., Vacher, H.L., Shinn, E.A., 1995. Geology and hydrogeology of the Florida Keys. US Geological Survey and Department of Geology, University of South Florida.
21. Harrison, R.S., Coniglio, M., 1985. Origin of Key Largo Limestone, Florida Keys. Bulletin of Canadian Petroleum Geology 33, 350-358.
22. 32P in natural waters. Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry 249, 381-384.
23. Kuo, S., Lotse, E.G., 1972. Kinetics of phosphate adsorption by calcium carbonate and Ca-kaolinite. Soil Science Society American Proceedings 36, 725-729.
24. Lapointe, B.E., 1989. Macroalgal production and nutrient relations in oligotrophic areas of Florida Bay. Bulletin of Marine Science 44, 312-323.
25. Lapointe, B.E., Clark, M.W., 1992. Nutrient inputs from the watershed and coastal eutrophication in the Florida Keys. Estuaries 15, 465-476.
26. Lapointe, B.E., O'Connell, J.D., Garrett, G.S., 1990. Nutrient coupling between on-site sewage disposal systems, groundwaters, and nearshore surface waters of the Florida Keys. Biogeochemistry 10, 289-307.
27. McGlathery, K.J., Marino, R., Howarth, R.W., 1994. Variable rates of phosphate uptake by shallow marine carbonate sediments: mechanical and ecological significance. Biogeochemistry 25, 127-146.
28. Monaghan, L.B., 1996. The hydrogeochemical behavior of waste water-derives nutrient elements in the ground waters of Long Key, Florida. MS Thesis, The Pennsylvania State University.
29. Moore, W.J., 1972. Physical Chemistry, fourth ed., Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 977 pp.
30. Paul, J.H., Rose, J.B., Jiang, S.C., Zhou, X., Cochran, P., Kellogg, C., Kang, J.B., Griffin, D., Farrah, S., Lukasik, J., 1997. Evidence for groundwater and surface water contamination by waste disposal wells in the Florida Keys. Water Research 31, 1448-1454.
31. Phlips, E.J., Badylak, S., 1996. Spatial variability in phytoplankton standing crop and composition in a shallow inner-shelf lagoon, Florida Bay, USA. Bulletin of Marine Science 58, 203-216.
32. Phlips, E.J., Lynch, T.C., Badylak, S., 1995. Chlorophyll a, tripton, color, and light availability in a shallow tropical inner-shelf lagoon, Florida Bay, USA. Marine Ecology Progress Series 127, 233-234.
33. Phlips, E.J., Badylak, S., Lunch, T.C., 1999. Blooms of picoplanktonic cyanobacterium Synechococcus in Florida Bay, a subtropical inner-shelf lagoon. Limnology and Oceanography 44, 1166-1175.
34. Powell, G.V.N., Kenworthy, J., Fourqurean, J.W., 1989. Experimental evidence for nutrient limitation of seagrass growth in a tropical estuary with restricted circulation. Bulletin of Marine Science 44, 324-340.
35. Shinn, E.A., Reese, R.S., Reich, C.D., 1994. Fate and pathways of injection-well effluent in the Florida Keys. US Geological Survey Open-file Report 94-276, St Petersburg, FL.
36. Strickland, J.D.H., Parsons, T.R., 1972. A practical handbook of seawater analysis. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 167 pp.
37. Vacher, L.H., Wrightman, M.J., Stewart, M.T., 1992. Hydrology of meteoric diagenesis, effect of Pleistocene stratigraphy on freshwater lenses of Big Pine Key, Florida. In: Fletcher, C.W. III, Wehmiller, J.F. (Eds.), Quaternary Coasts of the United States, Marine and Lacustrine Systems, SEMP Special Publication No. 48, pp. 213-219.
38. Wanninkhof, R., Ledwell, J.R., Watson, A.J., 1991. Analysis of sulfur hexafluoride in seawater. Journal of Geophysical Research 104, 8733-8740.
39. Wilson, R.D., Mackey, D.M., 1993. The use of sulfur hexafluoride as a conservative tracer in saturated sandy media. Groundwater 31, 719-724.