Assessment of groundwater quality due to municipal solid waste landfills leachate

Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 419-436

  Alslaibi, Tamer M ^a   Mogheir, Yunes K ^a   Afifi, Samir ^a  

^a ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF GAZA   (Palestine)

Author keywords

Groundwater pollution; Groundwater samples; Landfills; Percolated leachate; Pollutant indicators

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GIS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER QUALITY; WELL WATER;

GAZA STRIP; OCCUPIED TERRITORIES;

EID: 79960817239     PISSN: 19947887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jest.2011.419.436     Document Type: Article

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