Effects of residential wastewater treatment systems on ground-water quality in west-central Jefferson County, Colorado
Open-File Report
81-73
By: Dennis C. Hall, D. E. Hillier, Edward Nickum, and W.G. Dorrance
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Abstract
The use of residential wastewater-treatment systems in Evergreen Meadows, Marshdale, and Herzman Mesa, Colo., has degraded ground-water quality to some extent in each community. Age of community; average lot size; slope of land surface; composition, permeability, and thickness of surficial material; density, size , and orientation of fractures; maintenance of wastewater-treatment systems; and presence of animals are factors possibly contributing to the degradation of ground-water quality. When compared with effluent from aeration-treatment tanks, effluent fom septic-treatment tanks is characterized by greater biochemical oxygen demand and greater concentrations of detergents. When compared with effluent from septic-treatment tanks, effluent from aeration-treatment tanks is characterized by greater concentrations of dissolved oxygen, nitrite, nitrate, sulfate, and dissolved solids. (USGS)
| Publication type | Report |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | USGS Numbered Series |
| Title | Effects of residential wastewater treatment systems on ground-water quality in west-central Jefferson County, Colorado |
| Series title | Open-File Report |
| Series number | 81-73 |
| DOI | 10.3133/ofr8173 |
| Edition | - |
| Year Published | 1981 |
| Language | ENGLISH |
| Publisher | U.S. Geological Survey, |
| Description | v, 116 p. :ill., maps ;28 cm. |
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