Environmental groundwater vulnerability assessment in urban water mines (porto, NW Portugal)

Water (Switzerland)

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2016, Pages

  Afonso, Maria José ^a,b   Freitas, Liliana ^a,c   Pereira, Alcides ^c   Neves, Luís ^c   Guimarães, Laura ^d   Guilhermino, Lúcia ^d,e   Mayer, Bernhard ^f   Rocha, Fernando ^b   Marques, José Manuel ^g   Chaminé, Helder I ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE ENGENHARIA DO PORTO   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^g INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Groundwater ecotoxicology; Isotope tracers; NW portugal; Urban groundwater; Vulnerability mapping

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROCHEMISTRY; HYDROGEOLOGY; ISOTOPES; SEWAGE;

ECO-TOXICOLOGY; GROUNDWATER ECOTOXICOLOGY; GROUNDWATER VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; ISOTOPE TRACERS; NW PORTUGAL; PORTUGAL; URBAN GROUNDWATER; URBAN WATERS; VULNERABILITY MAPPINGS;

GROUNDWATER;

BIOMINERALIZATION; ECOTOXICOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; GIS; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; HYDROGEOLOGY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RADIONUCLIDE; SPRING WATER; TOXICITY; TRACER; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY;

PORTO [PORTO (DST)]; PORTO [PORTUGAL]; PORTUGAL;

EID: 85005982461     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734441     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/w8110499     Document Type: Article

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