Groundwater monitoring: Guidelines and methodology for developing and implementing a ground-water quality monitoring program
The handbook attempts to structure a cost-effective, generic groundwater pollution monitoring methodology that can be applied either on a regional basis or to site-specific, alternative approaches to monitoring the quality of groundwater at a considerable saving of time and money. Extensive detail is given to the relation of groundwater quality to the geohydrologic framework, constituents in the polluted groundwater, sources and causes of pollution, and use of water. Information is also given about groundwater monitoring techniques used in top soil, the vadose zone, ad the saturated zone. The costs of these techniques are described in figures and tables. Groundwater databases and their applicability to water resources information systems are also covered. Comprehensive site-specific examples are given of how to use the material in the handbook to monitoring major sources of groundwater pollution. Included are in-depth models of hazardous waste disposal, brine disposal, landfill leachate control, oxidation ponds and percolation ponds, septic fields, and agricultural return flow, as well as descriptions of cases of multiple-source municipal and agricultural pollution.
- OSTI ID:
- 5872631
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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CONTAMINATION
COST
DISPERSIONS
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORT
GROUND WATER
HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
LEACHATES
MANAGEMENT
MANUALS
MASS TRANSFER
MATERIALS
MIXTURES
MONITORING
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
POLLUTION
POLLUTION SOURCES
RUNOFF
SANITARY LANDFILLS
SOLUTIONS
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WATER
WATER POLLUTION