Effects of land use on water quality of the Fountain Creek alluvial aquifer, east-central Colorado

Water Supply Paper 2381-D
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Abstract

Water-quality data were collected from the Fountain Creek alluvial aquifer in 1988 and 1989 as part of the Toxic-Waste Ground-Water Contamination Program. These data indicate that dissolved solids, most major ions, fluoride, ammonium, boron, lithium, selenium, and strontium were more concentrated in the agricultural land-use area than in the upgradient urban land-use area. Nitrate and phosphate had significantly larger concentrations, and volatile organic compounds had significantly greater detection frequencies in the urban land-use area.
Publication type Report
Publication Subtype USGS Numbered Series
Title Effects of land use on water quality of the Fountain Creek alluvial aquifer, east-central Colorado
Series title Water Supply Paper
Series number 2381
Chapter D
DOI 10.3133/wsp2381D
Edition -
Year Published 1996
Language ENGLISH
Publisher U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ; U.S. G.P.O. ; For sale by USGS Map Distribution,
Description vii, 99 p. :ill., maps ;28 cm.; 1 plate in pocket
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