The effects that well depth and wellhead protection have on bacterial contamination of private water wells in the Estes Park Valley, Colorado

Journal of Environmental Health

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 17-23

  Gonzales, Thomas R ^a  

^a Clark County Public Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WELL; WELLHEAD;

BACTERIUM; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

BACTERIA; COLORADO; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

COLORADO; ESTES PARK; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 57649155490     PISSN: 00220892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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