Observations on Vertical Variability in Groundwater Quality: Implications for Aquifer Management

Water Resources Management

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1315-1324

  Netzer, Lior ^a   Weisbrod, Noam ^a   Kurtzman, Daniel ^b   Nasser, Ahmed ^b   Graber, Ellen R ^b   Ronen, Daniel ^a,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^c Hydrological Service of Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aquifer management; Groundwater quality

Indexed keywords

AQUIFER MANAGEMENT; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; CHEMICAL VARIABILITY; GROUNDWATER QUALITY; MONITORING WELLS; NATURAL GRADIENT; NITRATE LEVELS; PUMPING WELL; SINGLE POINT; TOTAL VARIATION; TRICHLOROETHENES; VERTICAL SECTION; VERTICAL VARIATION; WATER SAMPLES;

AQUIFERS; CHLORINE; CHROMIUM; TRICHLOROETHYLENE; WATER QUALITY; WELL PUMPS; WELLS;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AQUIFER; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; GROUNDWATER; MONITORING SYSTEM; PUMPING; WATER DEPTH; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

ISRAEL; ISRAELI COASTAL PLAIN;

EID: 79952738983     PISSN: 09204741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11269-010-9746-1     Document Type: Article

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