En omfattande multiproxyanalys har utförts på provtagningar från två vattenhål belägna i Skåneregionen i Sverige. Denna mångsidiga analys involverade flera aspekter, inklusive markkemi, entomologi, mikrofossiler och makrofossiler. Resultaten från markkemianalysen avslöjade betydande skillnader mellan de två vattenhålen. Vattenhål 1 uppvisade en högre halt av organiskt material, vilket tyder på högre glödförluster och högre värden av maximal magnetisk susceptibilitet (MS550) och totalfosfat (CitPOI). För att ytterligare karakterisera egenskaperna hos vattenhålen användes även analyserna infrarödspektroskopi (NiR) och röntgenfluorescens (XRF).   Vattenhål 2 visade tecken på att ha fyllts med bosättningsavfall från platsen. Detta stöddes av markkemiresultaten som visade en lägre halt av organiskt material samt närvaron av antropogena material, såsom förkolnade frön, träkol, bränd lera, ben och keramikfragment.   Makrofossilanalysen avslöjade intressanta fynd. I vattenhål 1 hade växter som etternässla (Urtica urens) och kråkklöver (Comarum palustre) deponerats, tillsammans med enstaka exemplar av Thrips major Uzel. I kontrast bestod de förkolnade fröna från vattenhål 2 huvudsakligen av ogräs, inklusive svinmålla (Chenopodium album) och nattskatta (Solanum nigrum). Det fanns även spår av sädeskorn som korn (Hordeum vulgare), samt oidentifierade fragment av sädeskorn. Resultaten från makrofossilanalysen indikerade att materialet från vattenhål 1 härstammar troligtvis från forntida mänskliga aktiviteter, som odling.   Mikrofossilanalysen visade att det inte fanns några kiselalger (diatoméer) i något av vattenhålen. Sammantaget antyder resultaten från multiproxyanalysen att vattenhål 1 hade genomgått minst tre olika faser i sin historia, medan vattenhål 2 hade fyllts med jord och material från en bosättningsliknande plats, vilket gjorde det svårt att entydigt tolka själva vattenhålets historia och funktion.

6 pp. / 1. Drinking Water Wells; 2. Private Water Well Components; 3. Do Deeper Wells Mean Better Water; 4. Maintaining Your Private Well Water System; 5. Private Well Protection; 6. Well Water Testing and Understanding the Results; 7. Obtaining a Water Sample for Bacterial Analysis; 8. Microorganisms in Private Water Wells; 9. Lead in Private Water Wells; 10. Nitrate in Private Water Wells; 11.Arsenic in Private Water Wells; 12. Matching Drinking Water Quality Problems to Treatment Methods; 13. Commonly Available Home Water Treatment Systems; 14. Hard Water: To Soften or Not to Soften; 15. Shock Chlorination of Private Water Wells / This fact sheet is one in a series of fifteen for private water well owners. The one- to four-page fact sheets will be assembled into a two-pocket folder entitled Private Well Owners Guide. The titles will also be a part of the Changing Rural Landscapes project whose goal is to educate exurban, small acreage residents. The authors have made every effort to align the fact sheets with the proposed Arizona Cooperative Extension booklet An Arizona Well Owners Guide to Water Sources, Quality, Sources, Testing, Treatment, and Well Maintenance by Artiola and Uhlman. The private well owner project was funded by both the University of Arizonas Water Sustainability Program-Technology and Research Initiative Fund and the USDA-CSREES Region 9 Water Quality Program.

6 pp. / 1. Drinking Water Wells; 2. Private Water Well Components; 3. Do Deeper Wells Mean Better Water; 4. Maintaining Your Private Well Water System; 5. Private Well Protection; 6. Well Water Testing and Understanding the Results; 7. Obtaining a Water Sample for Bacterial Analysis; 8. Microorganisms in Private Water Wells; 9. Lead in Private Water Wells; 10. Nitrate in Private Water Wells; 11.Arsenic in Private Water Wells; 12. Matching Drinking Water Quality Problems to Treatment Methods; 13. Commonly Available Home Water Treatment Systems; 14. Hard Water: To Soften or Not to Soften; 15. Shock Chlorination of Private Water Wells / This fact sheet is one in a series of fifteen for private water well owners. The one- to four-page fact sheets will be assembled into a two-pocket folder entitled Private Well Owners Guide. The titles will also be a part of the Changing Rural Landscapes project whose goal is to educate exurban, small acreage residents. The authors have made every effort to align the fact sheets with the proposed Arizona Cooperative Extension booklet An Arizona Well Owners Guide to Water Sources, Quality, Testing, Treatment, and Well Maintenance by Artiola and Uhlman. The private well owner project was funded by both the University of Arizonas Water Sustainability Program-Technology and Research Initiative Fund and the USDA-CSREES Region 9 Water Quality Program.

4 pp. / This fact sheet is to be taken from research conducted by Uhlman and Rahman and published on the WRRC web site as: "Predicting Ground Water Vulnerability to Nitrate in Arizona". Funded by TRIF and peer reviewed by ADEQ. It also follows on "Arizona Well Owner's Guide to Water Supply" and also "Arizona Drinking Water Well Contaminants" (part 1 already submitted, part 2 in process). / Arizona's arid environment and aquifer types allow for the persistence of nitrate contamination in ground water. Agricultural practices and the prevalence of septic systems contributes to this water quality concern, resulting in nitrate exceeding the EPA Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) in several locations across the state. Working with known nitrate concentrations in 6,800 wells across the state, this fact sheet presents maps showing the probability of nitrate contamination of ground water exceeding the MCL. The importance of monitoring your domestic water supply well for nitrate is emphasized.

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From the Proceedings of the 1972 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Assn. and the Hydrology Section - Arizona Academy of Science - May 5-6, 1972, Prescott, Arizona / Land is subsiding over a heavily mined aquifer in south central Arizona. Subsidence damages are inventoried to help provide a basis upon which cost studies can be performed to determine actions to lessen the economic impact of these damages. Water table drawdown produces increasing loading stress by three ways: changes in bouyant support of aquifer grains, changes in water table, or both. Two types of subsidence are recognized--one-directional compression, and near surface phenomenon. Damages due to natural structures, and to man-made structures are reviewed. Agricultural damages include field releveling, ditch repair and well damage. Damages to transportational facilities include highways, bridges, pipelines, and railroads. Damages to domestic and urban structures are suggested. Questionnaires, interviews and on-site inspections were used to collect information on land subsidence damages in the study area.

From the Proceedings of the 1975 Meetings of the Arizona Section - American Water Resources Assn. and the Hydrology Section - Arizona Academy of Science - April 11-12, 1975, Tempe, Arizona / Bayesian decision theory is a method for comparing expected utilities of alternative actions given various possible states of nature. The method treats uncertainty as to the true state of nature by determining the expected utility of each action in terms of the probabilities of the various possible states. The decision rule is to choose the action having the best expected utility. This paper illustrates an application of Bayesian decision theory in a well field design problem where a decision had to be made regarding capacity-density combination for wells located in an extensive uniform grid. The uncertainty lay in anticipating the frequencies of transmissivity values among the wells.

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Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T12:42:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / Made available in DSpace on 2014-10-09T14:04:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 / A represa Billings é o maior manancial superficial do Estado de São Paulo cuja importância está ligada ao abastecimento público, à geração de energia, à pesca, à recreação e ao lazer para a cidade de São Paulo e os municípios da sua região metropolitana. Nos últimos anos essa região vem sofrendo grande impacto ambiental. Apesar de ser uma APA (Área de Proteção Ambiental), há no entorno da represa, vários tipos de assentamentos cujas famílias utilizam para o seu consumo a água proveniente de poços situados, muitas vezes, a poucos metros da represa, já que inexiste o acesso à rede de saneamento básico (tratamento de água e esgoto em rede pública). De acordo com relatórios de entidades governamentais, observa-se que a espécie química alumínio está presente nas águas da represa em valores acima do permitido, o que gera preocupações relacionadas à contaminação do meio ambiente e à saúde da população; por outro lado, há poucas informações sobre a qualidade das águas subterrâneas da região. Considerando-se essa deficiência de informações, este trabalho teve como objetivo investigar a possível contaminação de poços, partindo da aplicação de um programa criado o PAMQUÁ ® - que auxiliou e direcionou à tomada de decisão a um determinado contaminante de risco à saúde humana encontrado na água e como o uso da radiação ionizante pôde ser aplicada no beneficiamento de diagnóstico químico e em solução para tratamento específico. Dessa forma, pôde-se ter o respaldo de que a espécie química alumínio é o principal contaminante daquelas águas superficiais. Como os íons alumínio são susceptíveis à complexação por substâncias orgânicas, o processo de irradiação ionizante como etapa de pré-tratamento para a determinação analítica foi um processo inovador e que foi aplicado em dois tipos de amostra: 1) amostras de água padronizadas contendo ácido húmico, que é o tipo de matéria orgânica que ocorre com frequência em águas subterrâneas e 2) amostras de água coletadas dos poços da região estudada. O processo de irradiação permitiu a redução do teor de matéria orgânica e a mineralização dessas amostras, contribuindo com dados inéditos sobre o teor de alumínio. Finalmente, foi desenvolvido um novo material - uma membrana polimérica seletiva modificada por radiação que propõe a remediação do alumínio na água. / Tese (Doutoramento) / IPEN/T / Instituto de Pesquisas Energeticas e Nucleares - IPEN-CNEN/SP

Aquifers in the arid alluvial basins of the southwestern U.S. are recharged predominantly by infiltration from streams within the basins and by water entering along the margins of the basins from surrounding mountains (mountain -front recharge). The Tucson Basin of Southeastern Arizona is such a basin. The Santa Catalina Mountains form the northern boundary of this basin and receive more than twice as much precipitation (about 70 cm/yr) as the basin does (about 30 cm/yr). In this study environmental isotopes were employed to investigate the migration of precipitation basinward through joints and fractures. Water samples were obtained from springs in the Santa Catalina Mountains. Stable isotopes and thermonuclear bomb-produced tritium enabled qualitative characterizations of flow paths and flow velocities. Stable isotopic measurements fail to display a direct altitude effect. Tritium values indicate that although a few springs discharge pre-bomb water, most springs discharge waters from the 1960's or later.