Groundwater Primer - Sources

1. Introduction
2. Sources of Pollution
   • Category I: Sources designed to discharge to groundwater
     1. On site waste disposal
     2. Septic systems
     3. Environmental Impacts of Septic Systems
     4. Land Application of Sewage Sludge
     5. Land Application of Biosolids
     6. Land Applied Sludges: Solution or Problem?
   • Category II: Sources designed to store, treat, or dispose of substances; discharge through unplanned release
     1. Underground Storage Tanks
     2. more Underground Storage Tanks
     3. even more Underground Storage Tanks
     4. still more Underground Storage Tanks
     5. Landfills
     6. Sanitary Landfills
     7. Hazardous Wastes
     8. Hazardous Waste Landfills
     9. Stabilization Ponds
     10. Sludge Disposal at Blacksburg Water Treatment Plant
     11. New River Resource Authority Landfill: Preventative Measures for Ground Water Contamination
     12. Swine Wastes
   • Category III: Sources designed to retain substances during transport or transmission
     1. Sewer Infiltration and Overflow
   • Category IV: Sources discharging as consequences of other planned activities
     1. Road Deicing Salts
     2. more Deicing Salts
     3. Agriculture
     4. Acid Mine Drainage
     5. more Acid Mine Drainage
     6. even more Acid Mine Drainage
     7. Nitrate Leaching in No-tillage Cropping Systems
   • Category V: Sources providing conduit of inducing discharge through altered flow patterns
   • Category VI: Naturally occuring sources whose discharge is created or excerbated by human activity
     1. Urban Runoff
     2. more Urban Runoff
     3. Nonpoint Source Pollution of the Chesapeake Bay via Groundwater
   • Miscellaneous sources
     1. Watershed Management: Protecting Our Groundwater
3. Types of Contaminants
4. Transport of Contaminants
5. Fate of Contaminants
6. Models
7. Remediation
8. Monitoring
9. Legal Aspects
10. Miscellaneous
11. Index

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Copyright © 1998 Daniel Gallagher
Last Modified: June 7, 1998