Faecal indicator bacteria: Groundwater dynamics and transport following precipitation and river water infiltration

Water, Air, and Soil Pollution

Volumn 223, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 2771-2782

  Page, Rebecca M ^a   Scheidler, Stefan ^a   Polat, Elif ^a   Svoboda, Paul ^b   Huggenberger, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Cantonal Laboratory Basel Landschaft   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Drinking water; Faecal indicator bacteria; Groundwater; Multiparametric time series; River water infiltration

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL AQUIFERS; BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION; BACTERIAL REMOVAL; E. COLI; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EVENT-BASED; EXTRACTION WELLS; FAECAL CONTAMINATION; FAECAL INDICATORS; FLOW PATH; GROUNDWATER DYNAMICS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HIGH DIMENSIONALITY; IN-DEPTH KNOWLEDGE; MULTIPARAMETRIC TIME-SERIES; OBSERVATION WELLS; PARTICLE DENSITIES; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS; PROXY-BASED APPROACH; RIVER WATER; RIVER-GROUNDWATER INTERACTIONS; SET-UPS; SPECTRAL ABSORPTIONS; TEMPORAL SCALE; TIME RESOLUTION;

AQUIFERS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; HAZARDS; HYDROGEOLOGY; INDICATORS (CHEMICAL); INFILTRATION; POTABLE WATER; RIVERS; TURBIDITY; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

RIVER POLLUTION;

DRINKING WATER; GROUND WATER; RIVER WATER;

AQUIFER; AQUIFER POLLUTION; BACTERIUM; BIOINDICATOR; BIOMONITORING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DRINKING WATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; INFILTRATION; PHYSICOCHEMICAL PROPERTY; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RIVER WATER; WATER QUALITY;

ABSORPTION; AQUIFER; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PRECIPITATION; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTEROCOCCUS SP.; ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84862182619     PISSN: 00496979     EISSN: 15732932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11270-011-1065-5     Document Type: Article

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