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Janja Svetina, Joerg Prestor, Brigita Jamnik, Primo? Auersperger and Mihael Brencic
Urban areas can significantly alter the quality status of aquifers if appropriate strategies to prevent and detect groundwater contamination are not implemented in time. The prevention of groundwater contamination should be a priority due to its potentia...
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Ilias Siarkos, Zisis Mallios and Pericles Latinopoulos
Groundwater nitrate contamination caused by the excessive use of nitrogen-based fertilizers has been widely recognized as an issue of significant concern in numerous rural areas worldwide. To mitigate nitrate contamination, corrective management practice...
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Andrew Plymale, Jacqueline Wells, Emily Graham, Odeta Qafoku, Shelby Brooks and Brady Lee
This study examined potential microbial impacts of cyanide contamination in an aquifer affected by ferrocyanide disposal from nuclear waste processing at the US Department of Energy?s Hanford Site in south-eastern Washington State (USA). We examined bact...
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Chiara Sbarbati, Nicolò Colombani, Micòl Mastrocicco, Marco Petitta and Ramon Aravena
A comprehensive hydrochemical, stable isotope and microbial analyses characterisation has been performed to evaluate the sources of groundwater, nitrogen pollution and degradation processes occurring in an industrial polluted coastal aquifer in the frame...
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Justin G. Morrissy, Matthew J. Currell, Suzie M. Reichman, Aravind Surapaneni, Mallavarapu Megharaj, Nicholas D. Crosbie, Daniel Hirth, Simon Aquilina, William Rajendram and Andrew S. Ball
Aquifers provide integral freshwater resources and host ecosystems of largely uncharacterized, truncated endemic microorganisms. In recent history, many aquifers have become increasingly contaminated from various anthropogenic sources. To better understa...
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Badana Ntanganedzeni, Vetrimurugan Elumalai and Natarajan Rajmohan
Assessment of groundwater quality, contamination sources and geochemical processes in the coastal aquifer of Tugela Catchment, South Africa were carried out by the geochemical and statistical approach using major ion chemistry of 36 groundwater samples. ...
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Mario Schirmer and Horst Niemes
This case study deals with long-term contamination of the Leuna aquifer, which is intended to be restored using sustainable technologies financed by the state. The contamination can only be solved using active rather than passive intervention, because th...
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Vanessa Gonçalves, Antonio Albuquerque, Pedro Gabriel Almeida, Luís Ferreira Gomes and Victor Cavaleiro
The risk of aquifer contamination is determined by the interaction between the pollutant load and the vulnerability of an aquifer. Owing to the decomposition of bodies and degradation of artefacts, cemeteries may have a negative impact on groundwater qua...
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Andrew Watson, Eric W. Peterson, Dave Malone and Lisa Tranel
To characterize the distribution of Holocene and Late Quaternary deposits and to assess the contamination potential of the Mahomet Aquifer, surficial geologic and aquifer sensitivity maps of the Gibson City East 7.5-Minute Quadrangle were created. Geolog...
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Nadezhda Popova, Grigoriy Artemiev, Inga Zinicovscaia, Nikita Yushin, Ludmila Demina, Kirill Boldyrev, Denis Sobolev and Alexey Safonov
Groundwater samples contaminated with potentially toxic elements (PTE), including metals and nitrate ions, were collected at a depth of 8?10 m from the Siberian Chemical Plant multicomponent waste storage. The possibility of developing a permeable biogeo...
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John A. Luczaj, Amber Konrad, Mark Norfleet and Andrew Schauer
Ground water contamination from septic systems and the application of dairy cattle manure has been a long-standing problem in rural northeastern Wisconsin, especially in areas with thin soils over karstified Silurian dolostone bedrock, where as many as 6...
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Zoran Kovac, Zoran Nakic, Drago ?poljaric, David Stanek and Andrea Bacani
Nitrates present one of the main groundwater contaminants in the world and in the Zagreb aquifer. The Zagreb aquifer presents the main source of potable water for the inhabitants of the City of Zagreb and it is protected by the Republic of Croatia. The d...
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I. V. Kalashnikov
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An effective method to calculate the process of neutralization of soil and underground waters when the neutralizer is supplied to the surface of the soil. The method proposed is based on the numerical model of admixture transfer process. The implicit cha...
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Ayoub Barkat, Foued Bouaicha, Sabrina Ziad, Tamás Mester, Zsófi Sajtos, Dániel Balla, Islam Makhloufi and György Szabó
In this research, contamination levels and the spatial pattern identification, as well as human and environmental health risk assessments of the heavy metals in the phreatic groundwater aquifer of the Oued Souf Valley were investigated for the first time...
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Alessandro Casasso, Natalia Ferrantello, Simone Pescarmona, Carlo Bianco and Rajandrea Sethi
Borehole heat exchangers (BHEs) commonly reach depths of several tens of meters and cross different aquifers. Concerns have been raised about the possibility of boreholes to act as preferential pathways for contaminant transport among aquifers (cross-con...
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Mitja Jan?a, Joerg Prestor, Simona Pestotnik and Brigita Jamnik
The assurance of drinking water supply is one of the biggest emerging global challenges, especially in urban areas. In this respect, groundwater and its management in the urban environment are gaining importance. This paper presents the modeling of nitro...
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Tamiru Abiye and Ignatius Shaduka
The study focused on the seepage of uranium from unlined tailing dams into the alluvial aquifer in the Gawib River floodplain in Namibia where the region solely relies on groundwater for its economic activities as a result of arid climatic condition. The...
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Sérgio Mateus Chilaule, Mercedes Vélez-Nicolás, Verónica Ruiz-Ortiz, Ángel Sánchez-Bellón and Santiago García-López
The degradation of groundwater quality due to nitrate is a widespread issue in heavily agricultural areas and a major concern for public health. Improving knowledge of the intrinsic vulnerability of aquifers with respect to the actual contamination is cr...
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Naranchimeg Batsaikhan, Jae Min Lee, Buyankhishig Nemer and Nam C. Woo
Ulaanbaatar (UB), the capital of Mongolia, is one of the fastest-growing cities in the developing world. Due to increasing demand driven by rapid population and industrial growth, sustainable water resource management is required. Therefore, we investiga...
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Vanessa Gonçalves, Antonio Albuquerque, Paulo Carvalho, Pedro Almeida and Victor Cavaleiro
Deposition of corpses in the ground is the most common burial practice, which can allow interactions between polluting compounds and the soil, groundwater, and surface water, which may afterwards lead to negative environmental impacts and risks to public...
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