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Planning for groundwater protection /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Orlando :
Academic Press,
1987.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- HYDROGEOLOGIC FRAMEWORK FOR GROUNDWATER PROTECTION / Mary P. Anderson: The role of groundwater in the hydrologic cycle
- Transport of chemicals through the soil zone to the water table
- Physical, chemical, and biological defense mechanisms
- Groundwater monitoring
- Mathematical simulation
- Areas of uncertainty and implications for planning
- THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR PROTECTING GROUNDWATER IN THE UNITED STATES / Timothy R. Henderson: Overview
- The state role in groundwater protection
- Federal laws and institutions protecting groundwater
- DRINKING WATER AND HEALTH / C. William Page: What microcontaminants are found in water supplies?
- What are the health implications of toxic contaminants in drinking water?
- Cancer
- Cancer processes
- Dose-response functions
- Animal studies
- Epidemiologic studies
- Cancer risk in perspective
- How can we protect the health of the public?
- TECHNOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO REMOVING TOXIC CONTAMINANTS / Robert M. Clark: Alternatives to Treatment
- Treatment Options
- Conventional Treatment
- Chemical feed and handling
- Ion exchange
- Removal of organics by adsorption
- Aeration
- Cost comparisons
- DATA AND ORGANIZATIONAL REQUIREMENTS FOR LOCAL PLANNING / Martin Jaffe: Rediscovering the past
- Local data needs
- Identifying priority areas
- Establishing a local protection program
- Broadening the local protection program
- LONG ISLAND CASE STUDY / Lee E. Koppelman: Physical setting
- The groundwater system
- Groundwater problems
- Institutional roles
- Plan recommendations
- Citizen participation
- Implementation
- DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, CASE STUDY / Reginald R. Walters: Wellfield protection study
- Wellfield protection program
- WAUSAU, WISCONSIN, CASE STUDY / G. William Page: Sequence of events
- Sources of outside assistance
- Protection plan elements
- URBAN GROWTH MANAGEMENT AND GROUNDWATER PROTECTION: AUSTIN, TEXAS / Kent S. Butler: The Edwards aquifer and associated watersheds
- Contributing factors to enactment of the ordinances
- Watershed development standards
- Current events and long-range issues
- PERTH AMBOY, NEW JERSEY, CASE STUDIES / G. William Page: Nontoxics problems at the Runyon well field
- Toxics contamination problems
- Groundwater protection plan components
- SANTA CLARA VALLEY (SILICON VALLEY), CALIFORNIA, CASE STUDY / Thomas Lewcock: The water system of the Santa Clara Valley
- Contamination alarm
- a new awareness
- Implemenation of the model storage ordinance
- Who's in charge
- unresolved issues
- SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY, CASE STUDY / G. William Page: The municipality
- Chronology of toxics pollution
- Response to well closings
- Consulting studies
- Corporate response to toxics contamination
- Government roles in developing groundwater protection policies
- Protection plan elements
- Effectiveness of plan components
- BEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, CASE STUDY / Bonnie J. Ram et al: Hydrogeology of the tributary watershed
- Institutional structure
- Groundwater crisis
- State and local investigation
- Profile of groundwater supplies
- Signifact local initiatives
- Litigation proceedings
- Bedford versus Advanced Metal Resource Corporation et al.
- Summary and conclusion
- Update to 1985
- SUMMARY / G. William Page: Complexities of the groundwater system
- Fragmentation of laws and institutions
- Political support
- Significant unknowns.