Direct assessment of groundwater vulnerability from single observations of multiple contaminants

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Worrall, Fred ^a   Kolpin, Dana W ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Groundwater pollution; Pesticide leaching; Pollution risk assessment; Well monitoring

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; PESTICIDES; RISK ASSESSMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LEACHING; PESTICIDE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1242277323     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001212     Document Type: Article

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