Catastrophic groundwater pollution in a karst environment: A study of phosphorus sludge waste liquid pollution at the Penshuidong Cave in Yunnan, China

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 757-763

  Shi, Zhengtao ^a   Liu, Xinyou ^b   Liu, Yong ^a   Huang, Ying ^b   Peng, Haiying ^a  

^a YUNNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Yunnan Bureau of Hydrology and Water Resources Manage   (China)

Author keywords

Groundwater pollution; Karst; Phosphorus sludge waste liquid; Songming County Yunnan Province; Water quality monitoring

Indexed keywords

AFTER-TREATMENT; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY STANDARDS; FLOW DIRECTION; HUMID CLIMATES; KARST; KARST AREAS; KARST ENVIRONMENT; LIMIT SETS; MOVING SPEED; PEAK VALUES; PHOSPHORUS CONCENTRATION; POLLUTANT CONCENTRATION; POLLUTED WATER; SOUTH CHINA; WATER QUALITY MONITORING; WATER QUALITY STANDARD; YUNNAN , CHINA; YUNNAN PROVINCE;

CAVES; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CYANIDES; FISHERIES; GROUNDWATER; LIME; LIQUIDS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHENOLS; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTION; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARDS; WATER QUALITY; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

CAVE; CYANIDE; FLUORIDE; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; KARST HYDROLOGY; LANDFILL; PHOSPHATE; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTION MONITORING; SLUDGE; SURFACE WATER; WATER QUALITY;

CHINA; PENSHUIDONG CAVE; YUNNAN;

EID: 77955159760     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-009-0071-z     Document Type: Article

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