Water quality changes in a polluted stream over a twenty-five-year period

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 654-661

  Stewart, Jason ^b   Skousen, Jeff ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Marshall Miller & Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLIFORM BACTERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; PH EFFECTS; STREAM FLOW; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

WATER CHEMISTRY;

WATER POLLUTION;

ALUMINUM; CALCIUM; IRON; MANGANESE; ZINC;

ACIDITY; ALKALINITY; ARTICLE; AVERAGE; CHEMISTRY; COAL MINING; COLIFORM BACTERIUM; LAW; PH; SEWAGE; TIME; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONTAMINATION; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING; WATER TREATMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 0347296243     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2003.6540     Document Type: Article

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