Groundwater transport of Escherichia coli bacteria to open surface waters on Virginia's Coastal Plain: a GIS approach

Shellfish beds in the Chesapeake Bay region are being contaminated with fecal coliform bacteria which can cause the beds to be closed to harvesting. The cause of the bacteria contamination is basically unknown but has been hypothesized to be coming from non-point sources of pollution. The suggested...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schima, Francis Joseph
Other Authors: Environmental Engineering
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/46248
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-12162009-020249/