Nitrogen loads through baseflow, stormflow, and underflow to Rehoboth Bay, Delaware

Journal of Environmental Quality

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1742-1755

  Volk, J A ^a   Savidge, K B ^b   Scudlark, J R ^b   Andres, A S ^c   Ullman, W J ^b  

^a Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; COASTAL PLAIN SEDIMENTS; STORM WATERS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; COASTAL ZONES; ESTUARIES; LAND USE; NITROGEN; SEDIMENTS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATERSHEDS;

WATER POLLUTION;

GROUND WATER; NITROGEN; RAIN; STORM WATER; SURFACE WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL RELEASE; ESTUARY; EUTROPHICATION; HYDROGRAPHY; SEASHORE; SEDIMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS; WATER FLOW; WATER SAMPLING; WATERSHED;

DELAWARE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITROGEN; SEASONS; WATER POLLUTANTS;

EID: 33749332764     PISSN: 00472425     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2134/jeq2005.0373     Document Type: Article

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