Using chemical and microbiological indicators to track the impacts from the land application of treated municipal wastewater and other sources on groundwater quality in a karstic springs basin

Environmental Geology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 801-821

  Katz, Brian G ^a   Griffin, Dale W ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

DEET; Florida; Land application; Pharmaceutical compounds; Upper Floridan aquifer; USA; Wastewater

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS; CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; GROUNDWATER; HYDROGEOLOGY; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); ISOTOPES; SEWAGE; SPRINGS (WATER); UNDERGROUND RESERVOIRS; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS; GROUND WATER QUALITY; KARSTIC SPRINGS; LAND APPLICATIONS; MUNICIPAL SEWAGE; MUNICIPAL WASTEWATERS; ORGANIC WASTE WATER; PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOUNDS; STABLE ISOTOPES;

EFFLUENTS;

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EFFLUENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GROUNDWATER; KARST; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SEWAGE TREATMENT; SPRING WATER; WASTEWATER; WATER QUALITY;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; FLORIDA AQUIFER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROVIRUS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 48249143632     PISSN: 09430105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00254-007-1033-y     Document Type: Article

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