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Ground-water quality and trends at two industrial wastewater-injection sites in northwestern Florida, 1975-91

Water-Resources Investigations Report 93-4224
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Abstract

Industrial wastewater from two synthetic-fiber manufacturing plants has been injected into the Lower Floridan aquifer near Pensacola, Florida, since 1963, and near Milton, Florida, since 1975. Trend analysis of selected water-quality characteristics in water from four monitoring wells at each of these plants indicates that injected wastewater has affected ground-water quality in the Lower Floridan aquifer, which contains nonpotable water, up to 1.5 miles from the injection wells at the plant near Pensacola and at least 0.3 mile from the injection wells at the plant near Milton. No evidence for upward seepage of injected wastewater through the overlying Bucatunna Clay to the Upper Floridan aquifer was found at either of the plants.

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Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Ground-water quality and trends at two industrial wastewater-injection sites in northwestern Florida, 1975-91
Series title Water-Resources Investigations Report
Series number 93-4224
DOI 10.3133/wri934224
Year Published 1994
Language English
Publisher U.S. Geological Survey
Description iv, 25 p.
Country United States
State Florida
City Milton, Pensacola
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