Groundwater Quantity and Quality Issues in a Water-Rich Region: Examples from Wisconsin, USA
The State of Wisconsin is located in an unusually water-rich portion of the world in the western part of the Great Lakes region of North America. This article presents an overview of the major groundwater quantity and quality concerns for this region in a geologic context. The water quantity conce...
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| description | The State of Wisconsin is located in an unusually water-rich portion of the world in the western part of the Great Lakes region of North America. This article presents an overview of the major groundwater quantity and quality concerns for this region in a geologic context. The water quantity concerns are most prominent in the central sand plain region and portions of a Paleozoic confined sandstone aquifer in eastern Wisconsin. Water quality concerns are more varied, with significant impacts from both naturally occurring inorganic contaminants and anthropogenic sources. Naturally occurring contaminants include radium, arsenic and associated heavy metals, fluoride, strontium, and others. Anthropogenic contaminants include nitrate, bacteria, viruses, as well as endocrine disrupting compounds. Groundwater quality in the region is highly dependent upon local geology and land use, but water bearing geologic units of all ages, Precambrian through Quaternary, are impacted by at least one kind of contaminant. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-27b6509c18324cd9bd0bfcda586428142022-12-22T02:17:40ZengMDPI AGResources2079-92762015-06-014232335710.3390/resources4020323resources4020323Groundwater Quantity and Quality Issues in a Water-Rich Region: Examples from Wisconsin, USAJohn Luczaj0Kevin Masarik1Department of Natural & Applied Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI 54311, USACenter for Watershed Science and Education, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, WI 54481, USAThe State of Wisconsin is located in an unusually water-rich portion of the world in the western part of the Great Lakes region of North America. This article presents an overview of the major groundwater quantity and quality concerns for this region in a geologic context. The water quantity concerns are most prominent in the central sand plain region and portions of a Paleozoic confined sandstone aquifer in eastern Wisconsin. Water quality concerns are more varied, with significant impacts from both naturally occurring inorganic contaminants and anthropogenic sources. Naturally occurring contaminants include radium, arsenic and associated heavy metals, fluoride, strontium, and others. Anthropogenic contaminants include nitrate, bacteria, viruses, as well as endocrine disrupting compounds. Groundwater quality in the region is highly dependent upon local geology and land use, but water bearing geologic units of all ages, Precambrian through Quaternary, are impacted by at least one kind of contaminant.http://www.mdpi.com/2079-9276/4/2/323groundwaterqualityquantityWisconsinarsenicstrontiumfluoridenitratebacteriawells |
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