Mapping of road-salt-contaminated groundwater discharge and estimation of chloride load to a small stream in southern New Hampshire, USA

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 2349-2368

  Harte, Philip T ^a   Trowbridge, Philip R ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b NH Department of Environmental Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Chloride; Electrical conductivity; Electromagnetic; Groundwater; Load; Salt contamination

Indexed keywords

ADVECTIVE FLOW; CHLORIDE; CHLORIDE CONCENTRATIONS; CONTAMINATED GROUNDWATER; DARCIAN FLOW; DOMINANT PROCESS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLOW CONDITION; GROUND WATER DISCHARGE; INTERSTATE HIGHWAY; LINEAR RESPONSE; NEW HAMPSHIRE; POTENTIAL SOURCES; QUALITY STANDARD; REGRESSION EQUATION; SALT CONTAMINATION; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SIMILAR PATTERN; SMALL STREAMS; SPECIFIC CONDUCTANCE; STREAM WATER; STREAMBEDS;

CEMENTS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONTAMINATION; DISCHARGE (FLUID MECHANICS); ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; ELECTROMAGNETISM; GROUNDWATER; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; HYDRAULICS; LANDFORMS; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; RIVER POLLUTION; ROADS AND STREETS;

GROUNDWATER POLLUTION;

BASEFLOW; CHLORIDE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCHARGE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER; MAPPING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREAM BED; STREAMFLOW; STREAMWATER; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

NEW HAMPSHIRE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955506926     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7645     Document Type: Article

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