Assessing the vulnerability of a municipal well field to contamination in a karst aquifer

Environmental and Engineering Geoscience

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 319-331

  Renken, R A ^a   Cunningham, K J ^a   Zygnerski, M R ^a   Wacker, M A ^a   Shapiro, A M ^a   Harvey, R W ^a   Metge, D W ^a   Osborn, C L ^b   Ryan, J N ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ground water tracers; Karst aquifers; Pathogens; Well field protection

Indexed keywords

AQUIFERS; CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; POROSITY; ROCKS; WATER WELLS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; KARST;

CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM;

EID: 33644783001     PISSN: 10787275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2113/11.4.319     Document Type: Article

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