Potential for remediation of acidic mining lakes evaluated by hydrogeochemical modelling: Case study Grünewalder Lauch (Plessa 117, Lusatia/Germany)

Limnologica

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 167-174

  Nixdorf, Brigitte ^a   Uhlmann, Wilfried ^b   Lessmann, Dieter ^a  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b Institut für Wasser und Boden Dr Uhlmann   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acidic lakes; Alkalinity generation; Flooding; Liming; Modelling; Remediation

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ALKALINE WATER; ALKALINITY; DILUTION; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; IMMOBILIZATION; LAKE WATER; MINING; ORGANIC CARBON; REMEDIATION; WATER QUALITY; WATER TREATMENT;

BRANDENBURG; GERMANY; LAKE GRUNEWALD;

EID: 77649233778     PISSN: 00759511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.limno.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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