Assessment of groundwater quality near municipal solid waste landfill by an Aggregate Index Method

Agris On-line Papers in Economics and Informatics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1492-1503

  Bhalla, Gunjan ^a   Swamee, P K ^a   Kumar, Arvind ^a   Bansal, Ajay ^a  

^a DR B R AMBEDKAR NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Aggregate index; Groundwater; Landfill; Leachate; Municipal solid waste

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; GROUNDWATER; INDEX METHOD; LANDFILL; LEACHATE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84862743218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18041930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.6088/ijes.002020300034     Document Type: Article

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