Wellhead protection in confined, semi-confined, fractured and karst aquifer settings

Technical Report · Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1993

OSTI ID:5555306

Protection areas around wells producing from confined, fractured, and karst aquifers are, because of their complex hydrogeology, more difficult to define than protection areas for wells in porous media settings. The factsheet provides background information explaining the need to define protection areas for wells that draw public drinking water from several complex hydrogeologic settings: confined, semi-confined, fractured, and karst aquifers. These settings include aquifers in which the ground water is not open to the atmosphere, or the aquifer does not consist of unconsolidated porous media. Several figures illustrate these settings in a general way.

• Research Organization: Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC (United States). Office of Water
• OSTI ID: 5555306
• Report Number(s): PB-94-109402/XAB; EPA--810/K-93/001
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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AQUIFERS
DRAINAGE
DRINKING WATER
GEOLOGIC FORMATIONS
GROUND WATER
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROLOGY
LEVELS
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION ABATEMENT
PUMPING
UNDERGROUND
WATER
WATER POLLUTION ABATEMENT
WATER WELLS
WELLS