Groundwater deterioration in Nankou-a suburban area of Beijing: Data assessment and remediation scenarios

Environmental Earth Sciences

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1573-1586

  Sun, Feng ^a,b   Shao, Haibing ^b   Wang, Wenqing ^b   Watanabe, Norihiro ^b   Bilke, Lars ^b   Yang, Zhongshan ^a   Huang, Zhenfang ^a   Kolditz, Olaf ^b,c  

^a Beijing Hydrologic Center   (China)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nankou; Nitrate transport modeling; Pollution sources assessment; Remediation scenarios

Indexed keywords

BOREHOLE LOGS; COMBINED EFFECT; CONTAMINATED AQUIFER; DATA ASSESSMENT; GROUNDWATER EXTRACTION; GROUNDWATER SAMPLING; HYDRAULIC HEADS; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; INITIAL VALUES; LOCAL AQUIFERS; MASS TRANSPORT MODEL; NANKOU; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; NITRATE TRANSPORT; OBSERVATION WELLS; POLLUTION SOURCES; PUMPING RATE; PUMPING WELL; REGIONAL GROUNDWATER FLOW; STRUCTURAL MODELS; SUBURBAN AREAS; TYPE CURVES; UNTREATED WASTEWATER; WELL LOCATION;

AGRICULTURE; AQUIFERS; FERTILIZERS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCES; MODEL STRUCTURES; POLLUTION; PUMPS; WELL LOGGING;

RIVER POLLUTION;

AGROINDUSTRY; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; AQUIFER POLLUTION; BOREHOLE; CALIBRATION; CLEANUP; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA INTERPRETATION; FERTILIZER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC HEAD; HYDROGEOLOGY; NITRATE; PUMPING; REMEDIATION; SUBURBAN AREA; WASTEWATER; WELL WATER;

BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA;

EID: 84868541369     PISSN: 18666280     EISSN: 18666299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12665-012-1600-8     Document Type: Article

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