Overpumping leads to California groundwater arsenic threat

Smith, Ryan; Knight, Rosemary; Fendorf, Scott

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-04475-3

Title: Overpumping leads to California groundwater arsenic threat

Journal Article · Tue Jun 05 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04475-3· OSTI ID:1511430

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Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Geophysics
Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Earth System Science

Water resources are being challenged to meet domestic, agricultural, and industrial needs. To complement finite surface water supplies that are being stressed by changes in precipitation and increased demand, groundwater is increasingly being used. Sustaining groundwater use requires considering both water quantity and quality. A unique challenge for groundwater use, as compared with surface water, is the presence of naturally occurring contaminants within aquifer sediments, which can enter the water supply. Here we find that recent groundwater pumping, observed through land subsidence, results in an increase in aquifer arsenic concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley of California. By comparison, historic groundwater pumping shows no link to current groundwater arsenic concentrations. Our results support the premise that arsenic can reside within pore water of clay strata within aquifers and is released due to overpumping. We provide a quantitative model for using subsidence as an indicator of arsenic concentrations correlated with groundwater pumping.

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Research Organization:: Stanford Univ., CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

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OSTI ID:: 1511430

Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 9, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723

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