Protection of public water supplies from ground-water contamination

Book · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5713615

Pettyjohn, W A ^[1]

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1. ed.

Ground water is a valuable drinking water resource because of both availability and quality. In most locations of the country, it is available in quantities large enough to supply 50% of the nation's population. It also is a reliable resource because it is not subject to extremes in temperature or quality fluctuations and because it is buffered from the floods and droughts that affect surface supplies. The development of subsurface water supplies has little effect on land use and can usually be accomplished at relative low cost compared to the development of surface supplies. However, the subsurface environment is a complex system subject to contamination from a host of sources. Furthermore, the extremely slow movement of pollutants through this environment results in a longer residence time and little diffusion of many pollutants.

• OSTI ID: 5713615
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540220 -- Environment
Terrestrial-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
540320* -- Environment
Aquatic-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
ABSTRACTS
CONTAMINATION
COST
DOCUMENT TYPES
DRINKING WATER
GROUND WATER
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
LEADING ABSTRACT
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTANTS
POLLUTION ABATEMENT
PUBLIC UTILITIES
SUBSURFACE ENVIRONMENTS
WATER
WATER POLLUTION ABATEMENT
WATER UTILITIES