Spatial and temporal variability of radium in the Wisconsin Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system

被引:8
作者
Dematatis, Marie [1 ]
Plechacek, Amy [2 ]
Mathews, Madeleine [2 ]
Wright, Daniel B. [1 ]
Udenby, Florence [3 ]
Gotkowitz, Madeline B. [4 ]
Ginder-Vogel, Matthew [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Wisconsin, Dept Civil & Environm Engn, Madison, WI USA
[2] Univ Wisconsin, Environm Chem & Technol Program, Madison, WI USA
[3] Wisconsin Dept Nat Resources, Madison, WI USA
[4] Montana Bur Mines & Geol, Butte, MT 59701 USA
来源
AWWA WATER SCIENCE | 2020年 / 2卷 / 01期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
drinking water; groundwater; publicly available data sets; radium; trend analysis; water quality; DRINKING-WATER; GROUNDWATER; MOBILITY;
D O I
10.1002/aws2.1171
中图分类号
TV21 [水资源调查与水利规划];
学科分类号
081501 ;
摘要
Compliance monitoring of contaminants in public drinking water supplies results in publicly available data sets that are maintained by state agencies and useful for investigating changes in water quality. In this study, spatial and temporal trends in naturally occurring radium (combined 226Ra + 228Ra) concentrations in groundwater from the Midwestern Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system were evaluated with a Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources compliance data set. Average combined Ra from 2000 to 2018 in the Midwestern Cambrian-Ordovician aquifer system increased from 5.5 to 7.9 pCi/L in the confined region and from 4.8 to 6.6 pCi/L in the unconfined region. On a local scale, the data demonstrate increasing radium in the communities of Sussex (n = 98) and Brookfield (n = 35), and a decreasing trend in nearby Waukesha (n = 176). This study demonstrates the utility of compliance data sets for investigating water quality trends and the importance of geographic scale in examining such data.
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