Scientists may choose from tests covering Air Resources, Environmental Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Microbiology, Environmental Toxicology, Groundwater and the Subsurface Environment, Surface Water Resources, or Sustainability Science.
The alluvial aquifer fed by the Rhone is threatened by an internal discharge created by the Pechiney Group.
Desert and Arid Land Sciences, which includes Hydrology and groundwater resources management, agricultural techniques and hydroponics, environmental sciences and natural resources, geographic information systems and remote sensing
As part of the remediation action, the City of Montgomery planted 2 acres of poplar trees, which take up and break down contaminants from shallow groundwater through their roots.
However, according to local legend as recounted by H. Reid in The Virginian Railway (Kalmbach, 1961), it was named by Squire James Galsepy Kincaid and other locals on a rainy day in 1871 as a commentary on the standing groundwater outside the new post office along Loup Creek.
During her research, she uses satellite images for both detecting subsurface groundwater accumulation and land / submarine springs using the thermal ASTER and MODIS data.
In 2006 drilling fluids and methane were detected leaking from the ground near a gas well in Clark, Wyoming; 8 million cubic feet of methane were eventually released, and shallow groundwater was found to be contaminated.
He is a co-sponsor of Senate Bill 19 (2011), which removes the requirement of mandatory disinfection of groundwater in municipal water systems, a requirement that was imposed in reaction to a Cryptosporidium outbreak in 1993, which killed at least 104 citizens of Milwaukee, and sickened thousands of others.
Iron oxide adsorption treatment for arsenic in groundwater is a commonly practiced removal process which involves the chemical treatment of arsenic species such that they adsorb onto iron oxides and create larger particles that may be filtered out of the water stream.
Butler helped create the Barton Springs-Edwards Aquifer groundwater management district, and the plan for the Balcones Canyonlands Preserve.
Low-TDS groundwater is tapped by boreholes in the shore area at depths of 40–280, 500, 1,750, and 2,250 m below sea level, which suggests the existence of a deep flow system with vigorous flow.
Papyrus swamps and groundwater forest areas occur around the lake.
A expansion plan proposed by Charles I. Ecker was suspended after contamination of groundwater was reported.
It is named after Oscar Edward Meinzer who has been called the "father of modern groundwater hydrology".
On March 17, 2009, Newfield adopted a local law to stop Nestlé and other corporations from taking over their groundwater.
Many are also affected by salinity caused by land clearance, agriculture and irrigation practices, resulting in raised levels of groundwater and highly saline watertables.
Ogallala Aquifer, an aquifer or concentration of groundwater in the U.S. Midwest
The Ipswich River near Boston now runs dry in some years due to heavy pumping of groundwater for irrigation.
Other municipalities see this as a great concern, such as the Kapiti Coast District, New Zealand where, "groundwater ponding is a chronic problem, that results in damp housing and water logged sections. The damage that it causes is less apparent than the damaging events associated with floods, but the duration of groundwater ponding, which can last for several months, makes it a serious issue for those affected".
The Acacia groves vary widely in biodiversity and rely on runoff from rainfall and groundwater to survive.
She championed the passage of the Great Lakes Compact and associated legislation to govern withdrawals of the state's groundwater.
In 2009, the Taiwanese Environmental Protection Administration Executive Yuan (EPA) found that the soil and the groundwater in the area close to Formosa Plastics' Renwu Plant has been polluted by benzene, chloroform, dichloromethane, 1,1,2-Trichloroethane, 1,1-dichloroethylene, tetrachloroethylene, trichloroethylene, and vinylchloride.
The River Otter rises in the Blackdown Hills just inside the county of Somerset, England near Otterford, then flows south for some 32 km through East Devon to the English Channel at the western end of Lyme Bay, part of the Jurassic Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Permian and Triassic sandstone aquifer in the Otter Valley is one of Devon's largest groundwater sources, supplying drinking water to 200,000 people.
As early as 1980, the company's McCullom Lake factory located in McHenry County, Illinois, underwent investigation for contamination of the town's groundwater.
Canadian billionaire Frank Stronach has been building the Adena Springs Ranch for cattle, an abattoir, residential property development, and a throroughbred horse farm in the area, stirring concern over plans for water use and how groundwater draw will affect the springs.
Earthquake effects, external loading, groundwater conditions, stabilization forces (i.e. anchors, georeinforcements etc.) can be also included.
Skinner is noted for his role in the groundwater contamination case out of Woburn, Massachusetts, which became the basis for the book A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr, which received the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonFiction, and the subsequent film of the same name starring John Travolta (in which Skinner was portrayed by John Lithgow).
All major cities - with the exception of Aleppo – and all rural distribution networks in the rural areas are supplied with water of good quality from springs and groundwater.
Waterloo Hydrogeologic Inc., a groundwater software, training and consulting company