Quantifying the importance of diffuse minewater pollution in a historically heavily coal mined catchment

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 165-175

  Mayes, W M ^a   Gozzard, E ^a   Potter, H A B ^a   Jarvis, A P ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffuse pollution; Groundwater; Iron; Mass balance; Minewater

Indexed keywords

COAL MINES; GROUNDWATER; IRON; RIVERS; SEDIMENTS;

DIFFUSE POLLUTION; MASS BALANCE; MINEWATER;

POLLUTION;

GROUND WATER; IRON; RIVER WATER; SURFACE WATER;

CATCHMENT; COAL MINE; DIFFUSION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; IRON; MASS BALANCE; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; SURFACE WATER; WATER COLUMN;

ARTICLE; CATCHMENT; COAL MINING; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; UNITED KINGDOM; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION;

COAL MINING; ENGLAND; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; INDUSTRIAL WASTE; IRON; RIVERS; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

DURHAM [ENGLAND]; ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; GAUNLESS RIVER; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 36549060992     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2007.02.008     Document Type: Article

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