| Abstract: | Currently (1993), about 170 kg/yr of phosphorus discharges into Ashumet Pond on Cape Cod from a plume of sewage-contaminated ground water. Phosphorus in the plume is mobile in two distinct geochemical environments--an anoxic zone containing dissolved iron and a suboxic zone containing dissolved oxygen. Phosphorus mobility in the suboxic zone is due to saturation of available sorption sites. Phosphorus loading to Ashumet Pond may increase significantly after sewage disposal is stopped due to phosphorus desorption from sediment surfaces. |
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| Citation Author: | Walter, Donald A.; Rea, Brigid A.; Stollenwerk, Kenneth G.; Savoie, Jennifer |
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| Citation Phsyical Description: | vi, 89 p. :ill., maps (some col.) ;28 cm. |
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| Citation Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
| Citation Series: | Water Supply Paper |
| Citation Series Code: | WSP |
| Citation Series Number: | 2463 |
| Citation Search Results Text: | Geochemical and hydrologic controls on phosphorus transport in a sewage-contaminated sand and gravel aquifer near Ashumet Pond, Cape Cod, Massachusetts; 1996; WSP; 2463; Walter, Donald A.; Rea, Brigid A.; Stollenwerk, Kenneth G.; Savoie, Jennifer |
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| Text: | Geochemical and hydrologic controls on phosphorus transport in a sewage-contaminated sand and gravel aquifer near Ashumet Pond, Cape Cod, Massachusetts; 1996; WSP; 2463; Walter, Donald A.; Rea, Brigid A.; Stollenwerk, Kenneth G.; Savoie, Jennifer |
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| URL (DOCUMENT): | http://pubs.usgs.gov/wsp/2463/report.pdf |
| Date Other: | Sat, 1 Jun 1996 00:00 -0600 |
| Publisher: | U.S. Geological Survey, |
